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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Sandash / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09023-9200
Scope and Contents

This book is meant to evoke the current Gulf crisis. The visual images incorporate sand to signify the desert and ash from Mt. St. Helena's volcanic eruption to signify the potential for conflict. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Satin Show Is a Spirited Gathering / Turner, Elisa; Satin CJ; Cage J., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-01167-1197
Scope and Contents

Facilitating Processes So That Anything Can (to J.C.), depicted in the article, was purchased by the Sackner Archive from the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Save / Stilinovic, Mladen., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-29870-31257
Scope and Contents

The newspaper pages are thinly painted white and the center of each page is collaged with a clipping with the word "save" and various prices and words. The last page has a one dollar bill, placed within a collaged insert on the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Schatzsuch und Reiseberucht; Band 1 zeit sein und frei haben / Hainke, Wolfgang ; Dittmar R ; Williams E., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08963-9139
Scope and Contents

This is a reworked children's book in which the pages have been folded to contain loose sheets and cards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Schrift II / Werbachowska, Alicja., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29702-31077
Scope and Contents

The text was written on translucent paper such that the black ink writings appear like mirror writings owing to transmission through the translucency of the paper. Each page has an illumination in red ink of a single capital letter, S C H R I F T. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Schwarz-Buch I / Cepl, Gernot., 1988 - 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-19612-19998
Scope and Contents

The blocks of text are painted for the most part black with the margins left intact. In some instances, grays are used so that the printed text is allowed to shine through. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988 - 1989

Science and the Artist's Book / Barton CJ ; Davidson L ; Poehlmann JA ; McCarney S ; Kelm D ; Chen J ; Cutler-Shaw J ; Butler F ; Hutchins E ; Smith K ; Hastings PB ; Hofstra S ; Wirth K ; Ng K ; Hendricks G ; Deschamps F ; Zimmerman P ; Walker S ; Ely T., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-03018-3063
Scope and Contents

Curated by Carol Barton and Diane Shaw. For this exhibition "a select group of nationally recognized book artists was invited to create original works of art inspired by" volumes from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Scrapbook] / Pelieu, Claude., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-28509-29788
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book have neatly cut, black and white images and texts found in magazines and newspapers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Scrapscript / Deisler, Guillermo., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-14572-14883
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of rubberstampings and images cut to page size from magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991