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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2135 Collections and/or Records:

The Book of Ruth / Lynne Avadenka., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-25696-26156
Scope and Contents

Phrases from the Biblical story of Ruth as well as the artist's own comments have been placed on wooden blocks within a metal case. The inside of the box has been painted in a green color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Book of Ruth / Lynne Avadenka., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-25696-26156
Scope and Contents

Phrases from the Biblical story of Ruth as well as the artist's own comments have been placed on wooden blocks within a metal case. The inside of the box has been painted in a green color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Breath of Life Post-Neo / Rocola, Robert., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-03555-3619
Scope and Contents

Rocola has taken the exhibition catalog from "The Beauty in Breathing" and the envelope mailed to him by Marvin Sackner and modified its covers and two pages with rubberstamped and collaged images to create an alternate interpretation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Chicken Soup Effect / Sackner, Marvin; Faust D., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-03032-3077
Scope and Contents

This artist card was designed by Dikko Faust and Marvin Sackner who is the doctor who did initial research on the benefits of taking chicken soup for "a new cure for the common cold from your grandmother." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Chicken Soup Effect / Sackner, Marvin; Faust D., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-03033-3078
Scope and Contents

This artist card was designed by Dikko Faust and Marvin Sackner who is the doctor who did initial research on the benefits of taking chicken soup for "a new cure for the common cold from your grandmother." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Conservation of Globes - Old and Relatively New / Sumira, Sylvia ; Phillips T., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02143-2181
Scope and Contents

Includes description of Tom Phillips' "Humument Globes". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art, 2003

 Item — Box 194: [Barcode: 31858072459641]
Identifier: CC-40814-42791
Scope and Contents

The compact disc is held in place by means of bubbles on both sides of the case and by a slit through each one of the pamphlets. The compact disc depicts installation photographs of the catalogs and an interview between Boehme and Boltanski. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

The Dante Binding / Phillips, Tom; Erskine-Tulloch P., 1982

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Identifier: CC-04813-4904
Scope and Contents This painting depicts a portrait of Pella Erskine-Tulloch in Phillips' studio holding a handbound edition of Phillips' "Dante's Inferno." Tom Phillips describes this painting in "The Portrait Works" as follows: "The title of the picture 'The Dante Binding' refers to the book on which the sitter rests her arms. It was the last thing in the picture to be painted since it did not exist until the final three or four sittings. During the months this portrait took to paint, Pella Erskine-Tulloch and I were involved in designing the three volume binding for the Talfourd Press edition of Dante's Inferno. This sample blank volume was the final prototype. It was a triumphant moment in which the silkscreen cloth and spine-titling I had designed came together in her superbly structured binding: the mere presence of the book (replacing substitute books in earlier sittings) was enough to resolve the picture and propel it towards completion. Dante appears elsewhere in the portrait in the...
Dates: 1982

The Day of the Rope / Kevin Hamilton., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09224-9405
Scope and Contents

Text deals with discrimination of civil rights. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990