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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5472 Collections and/or Records:

Crossing the Sea of Ink / Seille, Genevieve ; Cardinal R., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34955-36670
Scope and Contents In these paintings, more vivid colors begin to appear in Seille's work. Roger Cardinal contributes a particularly sensitive essay about Seille's personality. On the WEB, Roger Cardinal's essay: If writing remains one of our most cherished modes of communication, then it is because we associate the effort of transcribing words onto paper with a genuine desire for clarity and contact. Often of course, a person's handwriting is ungainly or crabbed, yet we still attribute purpose to its markings. Messages matter to us, and we are seldom blase when we trip over a phrase in a loved one's postcard and struggle to disentangle the scrawl letter by letter. What we cannot decipher, we gawp at in bemusement. Such bemusement remains an essential ingredient in the artmaking of Geneviève Seille. As a child at school, she fell in love with the sensation of her nib scudding across the paper during handwriting classes. "It was a magical moment", she recalls, "the quiet only interrupted by the...
Dates: 2000

CSCARD: CN Don Yard lowlife: Gio, Taxi & gus 14IV99. No.9/Aug / jw curry., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37043-38883
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts the participants at a railroad stop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

CSCARD: CN Don Yard lowlife: Gio, Taxi & gus 14IV99. No.9/Aug / jw curry., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37044-38884
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts the participants at a railroad stop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

CSCARD: CN Don Yard lowlife: Gio, Taxi & gus 14IV99. No.9/Aug / jw curry., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37164-39007
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts the participants at a railroad stop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

CSCARD: CP empties E near Bollingbroke. No.8/Aug / jw curry., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37162-39005
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts a pink landscape as seen from a train car which is also in the picture. It is also published separately under curry's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

CSCARD: CP empties E near Bollingbroke. No.8/Aug / jw curry., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37163-39006
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts a pink landscape scene from train cars also in the picture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

CSCARD: CP empties E near Bollingbroke. No.8/Aug / jw curry., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37165-39008
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts a pink landscape scene from a train car ehich is also in the picture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

CSCARD: CPW, near Newtonville, 12apr96. Jun / Jennifer Books., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-37900-39780
Scope and Contents

This depicts a blurred scene photographed from a moving train. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

CSCARD: Wanted for crimes against somnolence & mediocrity. Jul / Jennifer Books., 1995

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Identifier: CC-37891-39771
Scope and Contents

The image is a picture of john curry with a hood over his head and captioned with the title of this card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

CSCARD: Woodbridge North. / jw curry., 1995

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Identifier: CC-37892-39772
Scope and Contents

This photograph depicts a scene from curry's railroad trip on the Canadian Pacific. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Cubist Print, The / Leger F ; Cendrars B ; Carra C ; Picasso P ; Weber M ; Davis S ; Severini G ; Malevich K ; Villon F., 1981

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Identifier: CC-18903-19281
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by Burr Wallen and Donna Stein. F.Leger and B.Cendrars' La Fin du Monde, held by the Sackner Archive, is depicted in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Culzean / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gardner I., 1983

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Identifier: CC-11747-11965
Scope and Contents

Cover drawing was made by Ian Gardner who was also co-editor of this periodical. Martin Walker provides a brief account of The Battle of Little Sparta Feb. 4, 1983 relating to Finlay's tax status with the local government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Curios & Mirabilia / Brouwn S ; Finlay IH ; Dupuy J ; Spoerri D ; Armleder J ; Messager A., 1996

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Identifier: CC-32162-33708
Scope and Contents

The catalogue descibes the site-specific, permanent collection of installation pieces at this museum that the Sackners visited during a trip to the Chateau country of France. The collection takes its inspiration from the 16th century cabinets of curiosities in which royalty and the learned men of the time would assemble collections of artifacts and natural objects. Ian Hamilton Finlay's installation was a sculptural work dealing with the battle of Midway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Curvd H&Z: A Drawing. No.255/Nov / Joe Brouillette., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19273-19656
Scope and Contents

Also designated one cent #132. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983