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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Sian Ka'An / Jack A. Hirschman., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-08697-8870
Scope and Contents

Sian Ka'An signifies Mayan words for the "birth of the sky". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Sign Rock River, 1989

 Item — Box 295: [Barcode: 31858072460748]
Identifier: CC-07478-7622
Scope and Contents

The calligraphic markings were modified from fossils discovered in a rock. The artist includes a photocopied photograph of "the rock that inspired the book - a language of fossils." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Silence / Burgess, Molly., 1973

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Identifier: CC-57282-10000604
Scope and Contents

This is the second book that Burgess made while studying at Princeton University.Four of the 18 pages constitutimg this work have been separaterly catalogued. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Silent Love / Etlinger, Amelia., 1974

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Identifier: CC-14124-14429
Scope and Contents

Etlinger wrapped a blank pages notebook with gauzy black fabric and string and tied it so that only the two center pages open to her poem and dried flowers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Sin Remember (from James Joyce's Portrait Of The Artists As A Young Man) / Miller, Brenda; Joyce J., 1986

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Identifier: CC-56865-54233
Scope and Contents

The letters of the text are arranged in a balanced grid without punctuation and are superimposed upon the paintings underneath it the the plexiglas case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Sirius Year End 1997 / Heft, Caren., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-36586-38391
Scope and Contents

The pages depict images of different dog breeds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Sketch Book for Curriculum Vitae Paintings] / Phillips, Tom., 1990

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Identifier: CC-04749-4838
Scope and Contents

This book contains the themes, notes and cancelled text for some of the poems of the 20 Curriculum Vitae Paintings. Ideas for some of the visual images of these paintings are sketched. Coffee stains are present on several pages. On the pentultimate page, Phillips lists themes for a Problems in Art series of works, viz., Drawing Breath (held by Sackner Archive), Mixing (the) Colour(s), Finding the Still Life, Anatomic Studies, A Sense of Perspective, Life Class, Choosing the Ground (soft or hard -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Sketch Book for Illustrations of Dante's Inferno - Revised Edition] / Phillips, Tom., 1978 - 1983

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Identifier: CC-31201-32669
Scope and Contents

This is the first of two sketch books for the illustrations of Dante's Inferno. The other one is also held by the Sackner Archive. The sketches are small, and generally several have been drawn on each page. These are heavily annotated in Phillips' almost micrographic, calligraphic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1983

Sketchbook ASN Experiments with Otherscript / Berry, Jake., 1993 - 1994

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Identifier: CC-23840-24288
Scope and Contents

Berry's coded (?) language in some of the drawings in this book is reminiscent to the drawings of Guy De Cointet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993 - 1994

Snake Dream Book / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08989-9166
Scope and Contents

Theme relates to a surrealistic dream of Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Snakes, Mongooses / Montessori, Elisa., 1988

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Identifier: CC-06678-6797
Scope and Contents

The artist used found ancient handwritten texts as the background for the drawings as well as her own copied written poetry of Marianne Moore. The artist was born in Genoa in 1931 but lives and works in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

so i smile... alot / Tong, Larson., 1989

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Identifier: CC-28606-29896
Scope and Contents

The story deals with the author's experiences as an immigrant to America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989