{"id":1894,"date":"2020-08-24T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/pull-of-horses-virtual-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T17:19:57","slug":"sackner-curator-highlights","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/sackner-curator-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Sackner Archive curator highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t

Phillips took copies of “A Human Monument,” a second-rate Victorian novel by W. H. Mallock, covering the pages with drawings and collages and leaving portions of the text visible to create an entirely new narrative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div>

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Afrikanische Legenden<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t

Ilse Garnier’s “Afrikanische Legenden” (“African Legends”) work incorporates an African symbolic writing system sewn by women into ceremonial carpets and vestments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div>

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Book Walk Series in the Backwoods<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t

This unique piece, one of three in the physical exhibit, tells a tale of a community through multiple component parts encased in a pair of leather shoes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div>

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Man Aging Direct Or<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t

Artist Richard Tipping explores the authority embodied in signs, subverting it and replacing it with playful anarchy. “Man Aging Direct Or” is a small, unassuming desk nameplate. The work divides \u201cManaging Director,\u201d a title of authority and control, into chunks of text forming new words and meaning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div>

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Matchbooks<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t

Seven small matchbooks, a common form for advertising in the past, have Kruger works printed on their covers. Your Manias Become Science (set against an image of an atomic explosion), You Are An Experiment in Terror, Your Silence Is My Comfort and four others enact a double valence of identity and effect through the use of pronouns, a common feature of Kruger\u2019s art. The \u201cYour\u201d and \u201cmy\u201d of \u201cYour comfort is my silence\u201d are both viewer and other, interchangeable, allowing the viewer to apply the text to themselves or somebody else. Small and subtle, the matchbooks are an elegant example of Kruger\u2019s sensibility and artistic agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div>

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Protect Me From What I Want<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t

Among the Jenny Holzer artworks in the Sackner Archive is a trucker hat, one of her multiples, bearing the embroidered text, \u201cProtect Me From What I Want.\u201d The message, like others of Holzer\u2019s, speaks of identity, power, and desire. The hat is High and Low culture simultaneously, shifting seamlessly from one to the other, unstable and dangerous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div>

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The art of typewriting<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t

Ruth and Marvin\u2019s work The art of typewriting delves into a small but incredibly robust portion of their collection. It is a full-color work featuring some of the many typewriter pieces in their Archive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div>

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The Fall of the Tower of Babel<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t

John Furnival’s “The Fall of the Tower of Babel” is one of the early classics of concrete poetry and exists in many versions. It depicts the Biblical story of the splintering of the World\u2019s languages as a vision of nuclear apocalypse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div>

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The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, 1984 (Catalog)<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t

Not long after Ruth and Marvin Sackner purchased the first items for their Archive, they began creating detailed records of the materials within it. Nothing demonstrates their determination to do so quite like the bulk of this 1984 catalog\u2014roughly 3 inches thick!<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/a>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-gallery.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1894\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}