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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Secret Panel / Jack A. Hirschman., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-49666-70719
Scope and Contents

Several poems in this book are written like limericks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Segregation by Robert Penn Warren, 1996

 Item — Box 88: [Barcode: 31858072538220]
Identifier: CC-24183-24635
Scope and Contents Each page has been treated by routing out all the text horizontally with a rotating tool such that the cancellation process takes place word by word. This process is imperfect so that some of letters and fragments of words still remain. The spine of the book has been deliberately cracked to allow the book to be displayed in its opened state. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.In a letter (2001) to the Sackners, Beube made the following comments. In Segregation, a metamorphosis occurs, transforming the printed text to empty space, and the black ink to dust. Although entire words have become illegible, the remnants of broken letters and vowels can be seen and felt on the crater-like surfaces of the pages.Portions of the book's text have been removed by drilling out each word one page at a time, a process that fragments the book's content. Multiple pages become translucent white veils beneath which a number of underlying pages may be...
Dates: 1996

Selected Visual Poems / Segay, Serge ; Nikonova R ; Scherstjanoi V., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28558-29843
Scope and Contents

The earliest work in this sampling of Segay's visual poems is dated 1973 and the latest 1997. Most pages of the soft cover book consist of black paper with stylized cut out letters that form a text which is collaged to the white pages. One collage in the book was done as a collaboration among Segay, Nikonova, and Scherstjanoi. The material is enclosed within a handmade portfolio, held together by thick black laces with gold foil at the tips. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Selections: From Florida Collections / Presser E ; Chiarlone R., 1991

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Identifier: CC-02229-2269
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent works by Presser and Chiarlione to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Sentences / Dautricourt, Joelle., 1991

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Identifier: CC-16389-16739
Scope and Contents

The "sentences" on each page consist of printed line drawings of stones arranged horizontally that might constitute a text that cannot be deciphered by the casual reader. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Sequencing / Ernst, Kathy., 1984

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Identifier: CC-14063-14368
Scope and Contents

The binding is unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Serious Stuff / Hutchins, Edward H.., 1993

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Identifier: CC-09683-9876
Scope and Contents

Contains a listing of Hutchins' artist's books in the form of a booklet made by unusual folding of a single sheet of paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Seven Cold Spot Todos (Geometric), 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-15705-16034
Scope and Contents

All of these poems have been placed on the verso of the circular top of a commercial "Cold Spot Freezer Pail Pack." All are titled, e.g., Steady/Unsteady, Lapped/Overlapped, etc. with triangles, squares and circles to illustrate the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Seven Cold Spot Todos (Geometric) / Jacob Drachler., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-15705-16034
Scope and Contents

All of these poems have been placed on the verso of the circular top of a commercial "Cold Spot Freezer Pail Pack." All are titled, e.g., Steady/Unsteady, Lapped/Overlapped, etc. with triangles, squares and circles to illustrate the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979