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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5474 Collections and/or Records:

You are Here / Harmon, Katharine ; Carroll L ; Scher P ; Messager A ; Hiller S ; Wolfli A ; Finster H ; Chwast S ; Kuitca G ; Oldenburg C ; Morgan E ; Kachadourian N ; Held Jjr ; Long R ; Langlands B ; Bell N ; Mora J ; Fahlstrom O ; Torres-Garcia J ; Kalman T ; Ruscha E ; Patterson S ; Boetti A ; Kenny C., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42674-44692
Scope and Contents This well illustrated book deals with fanciful, artistic maps, not ones that would be used to find a location. The map (1928) by John Held, Jr. is by the illustrator not the mail artist. "Into this seemingly lighthearted 7" 10" look into people's love affairs with maps and mapmaking, Harmon packs some serious intellectual concepts about the human impulse to locate itself in the cosmos. Under the loose and expandable categories of "Personal Geography," "At Home in the World" and "Realms of Fantasy," Harmon presents 50 four-color and 50 b&w cartographical illustrations, including Professor Eugene Turner's smily and frowny faces placed on a map of Los Angeles convey data on the unemployment rates, urban stress and racial composition of individual neighborhoods, putting substantive research in a down-to-earth guise. Ellsworth Kelly's "Fields on a Map (Meschers, Gironde)" pulls an abstract pastoral out of a real place, while Kisaburo Ohara makes an octopus-like Russia seem vividly...
Dates: 2004

Young Masters and Misses / Stokes, Telfer., 1984

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Identifier: CC-02560-2602
Scope and Contents

According the Stokes' WEB site: "The several modes of storytelling in this book relate to different layers of time. The snapshots of renaissance buildings evoke the distant past in the present while the people in the scenes and text portray the recent past in the present. The photo realism of the imposed objects that sit on the pages and breal them up as illusionistic windows, suggest the present or the present now past. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Zeitschrift fur Tiegel und Tumult: Das Buch-The Book. No.25 / W.H. Luh, Jurgen O. Olbrich, editors ; Hainke W ; Stake C ; Heidsieck B ; Arts A ; Monro N ; Norros H ; Noel A ; Klassen N ; Baroni V ; Olbrich JO ; Koch W., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00079-82
Scope and Contents

The pages of the first half of this issue are color test overprintings. The artist's contributions are found in the second half. This is the final issue with its name; with issue, No.26, the periodical was changed to "No News." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Zeitschrift fur Tiegel und Tumult: For collectors only! Nur fur Sammler. No.21 / Franz-Joseph Weber., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00066-68
Scope and Contents

One hard cover book contains pages of different sizes taken from newspapers, trade periodicals, books, computer printouts, and printer's proofs. The soft cover book has a similar composition. The book object has blank pages and the cover is sealed with metal clips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Zeitschrift fur Tiegel und Tumult: Image-Frame-issue. No.8 / Bernard Heidsieck., 1987

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Identifier: CC-53915-62019
Scope and Contents

The print consists of four folded parts that includes the two loose sheets of Spanish produce labels and the envelope with Heidsieck's poem between the folds. The poem by Heidsieck in French reads "Ils ne firent, certes, que se crosier...--- Mais jamais ne se perdirent de vue!,," -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Zeitschrift fur Tiegel und Tumult. No.9 / Arno Arts., 1988

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Identifier: CC-53968-62020
Scope and Contents

The visual art in this work incorporates Ben Day dots as used by Roy Lichtenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Zeitschrift fur Tiegel und Tumult. No.18 / Norbert Klassen., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00034-33
Scope and Contents

Plastic slipcase containing periodical has shape and buttons like a man's shirt. Ths images on the loose sheets depict paintings of animals in the wild. Norbert Klassen was born March 5, 1941 and died December 1, 2011. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Zeitschrift fur Tiegel und Tumult. No.23 / W.H. Luh, Jurgen O. Olbrich, editors., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00075-78
Scope and Contents

The pages of this printed book contain mostly maps of Germany and collaged labels from wine bottles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992