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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2646 Collections and/or Records:

[Weaving] / Keith A. Smith; H Kyle., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-02651-2694
Scope and Contents

This is Smith's book number 143. Each line of poetry printed on 8 pencils that act as door hinges on the spine. The printed text on the pencils reads Weaving, Back and Forth, Writing in Time, Sewing my Words, Bowing the Box. The pages of this pie shaped book object are blank and as Smith explains in the colophon, ...the poem is not written by the pencils, but upon them. The binding was devised by Hedi Kyle and is called a piano hinge binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Wertstoffbuch oderDer [illegible...] / Bayer, Hanna ; Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 2002

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Identifier: CC-59764-10002822
Scope and Contents

The title in English means "Recyclables Book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Wexford Artists' Book Exhibition, 1st / Harroff W ; Coleman L ; Cutts S ; VanHorn E ; deCharmoy C ; Erenberg S ; Finlay IH ; Johanknecht S ; McGarry A ; O'Huigin S ; Zwehl-Burke P., 1995

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Identifier: CC-32141-33683
Scope and Contents

The catalogue consists of a single page pop-up with statements about artists books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Wexford Artists' Book Exhibition, 3rd / Barton CJ ; Bevis J ; Boschi A ; Coleman L ; Collins D ; Cutts S ; VanHorn E ; deCharmoy C ; Drum D ; Echevarria-Myers JA ; Figueiredo C ; Finlay A ; Harroff W ; Neaderland L ; Johanknecht S ; Karasik M ; McGarry A ; Nakamura K ; Putz C ; Siff E ; Stussi M ; Sutherland WM ; Wednesday Club ; Olbrich JO., 1997

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Identifier: CC-32166-33714
Scope and Contents

The catalogue includes several statements by the contributing artists dealing with their reasons for making books. It lists the contributing artists but does not describe the books that were exhibited. The exhibition was curated by Andi McGarry and Denis Collins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

What Has He Done with the Eggs / Fidler, Martin., 1970

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Identifier: CC-11301-11517
Scope and Contents

*WEB 1998: [Email]seamus.cooney@wmich.edu indicated that according to WorldCat, this book was published by Coracle Press, London, circa 1970-74. This information was added to citation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Wheeling, 1992

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Identifier: CC-07329-7473
Scope and Contents

Theme deals with the rise and fall of the automobile in American culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

WHEN / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-50216-71281
Scope and Contents

Interspersed with the same abstract image in varied colors, the text reads, "When does a tree die?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

When / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15166-15487
Scope and Contents

The text, one word or a letter on a page that is interspersed between the repetitive abstract images on the other pages reads, "When will a tree die?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Whence did the Mystic...by William Massey / Moore, Suzanne., 1993

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Identifier: CC-06360-6477
Scope and Contents Internet: Suzanne Moore is a printmaker, painter and lettering artist whose eclectic interests fuse in the diversity of her artists' books. Born to a family of gifted inventor-engineers and raised in post-Sputnik middle-America, her aptitudes in math and science channeled her into those areas at an early age. She made her way into the world of art at 20-something, and earned a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing in Wisconsin. Suzanne melds word and painted image with form, content and structure into spaces which invite the reader to engage, examine and inquire. Her books blend distinctive design, color use and surface treatments with textual content and contemporary lettering to create work that obscures the line between word and image, legibility and abstraction.The physical, sensual and architectural aspects of books and the musical/rhythmic, sequential, unfolding narratives of bookworks are a multi-dimensional parallel to the way imagery and letterforms move across surfaces. Moore...
Dates: 1993

Where Are They Now? (The Class of Forty-Seven) / Phillips, Tom ; McHugh, Heather ; Minsky R., 1990

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Identifier: CC-04818-4910
Scope and Contents

The book is based upon Phillips' collaged portraits of classmates attending his primary school, which was exhibited in London at the National Portrait Gallery in 1988. Phillips sent copies of 31 images to the American Seattle poet, Heather McHugh, who composed a poem for each portrait. Phillips then interpreted the poems in the style of "A Humument." His new text sometimes reaffirms and other times contradicts the poet's intrerpretation of the pictures. The collage, conventional poem and visual poem were printed by Minsky on the same page using Richard de Bas paper, a computer, and a Canon BJ-130 inkjet printer. This copy is the only one that contains the 31 images and poems handcolored by Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Why Artists' Books? / Davidson L ; Anninger A ; Lyons J., 1993

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Identifier: CC-00539-552
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Anne Anninger and text was contributed by Joan Lyon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Wiggling Air, Wobbling Light / curry, jw., 1995

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Identifier: CC-20761-21166
Scope and Contents

This is the first maquette for a manuscript of collages made from colored photographs that curry continues to edit. curry noted in a letter to the Sackners that many of the pieces in this copy will not be included in the final version. Some of the pic have been published but many have not. This copy was made for David UU who wanted to see the entire series. The book is dedicated to Frank Zappa & the images and their captions have music relationships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

William Blake's Proverbs of Hell / Proverbes de l'Enfer / Lalou, Frank., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28717-30023
Scope and Contents

This trade edition book of Blake's poetry has all the calligraphic and visual devices that Lalou utilizes in his unique books. The collaged elements on several pages are pieces of gold paper that are incorporated into his calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

William Blake's Proverbs of Hell / Proverbes de l'Enfer / Lalou, Frank., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29120-30465
Scope and Contents

This deluxe edition book of Blake's poetry has all the calligraphic and visual devices that Lalou utilizes in his unique books. The collaged elements on several pages are pieces of gold paper that are incorporated into his calligraphy. It differs from the trade edition, also held by the Sackner Archive, in that the text is printed on velin d'Arches paper 160 g. The trade edition is printed on Cyclus ligher weight paper stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996