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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Book For L / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-58119-10001371
Scope and Contents

The pages depict nude women in various poses taken from magazines that are rubberstamped with single or multiple letters. The drawing depicts a piece from a jig saw puzzle suggesting that the unscrambling of the letters might have a meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[Book Network], 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-16338-16688
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of the envelope containing a letter mailed to Deisler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Book No.11 / Dmitry Babenko., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34673-36374
Scope and Contents

This poem sculpture was constructed of heavy corrugated packaging paper, folded in eighths. The surfaces are covered in handwritten, black and red ink Cyrillic letters of varying sizes. The edges of the sculpture are covered with red and black felt papers arranged in a checker board pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Book No.11 / Dmitry Babenko., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34673-36374
Scope and Contents

This poem sculpture was constructed of heavy corrugated packaging paper, folded in eighths. The surfaces are covered in handwritten, black and red ink Cyrillic letters of varying sizes. The edges of the sculpture are covered with red and black felt papers arranged in a checker board pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Book Notes: Small Presses in the Spotlight / Lyall, Sarah; Hryciuk M., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-07477-7621
Scope and Contents

Theme is small press work, specifically the periodicals published by the Canadian, Marshall Hryciuk, Nietzche's Brolly, magazines held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Book Nr.120: Text in the Book Format / Smith, Keith A.., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-01909-1945
Scope and Contents

Smith states "The book format is movement. Rhythms of syllables and moving pictures of implied imagery flowing within text is akin to music and cinema. Events depicted in writing unfold through time in space, alongside the physical act of turning pages." This is an uncut version of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Book Nr.120: Text in the Book Format / Smith, Keith A.., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-01910-1946
Scope and Contents

Smith cut and assembled pages for an appropriate reading of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Book Number 117: 1985, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09326-9511
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding by Gary Frost has a special new, treatment to the spine allowing the book to lie reasonably flat when opened. Several persons who contributed to the design and production of this book also signed their names on various pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Book Object on Brass Feet], 1987

 Item — Box 273: [Barcode: 31858072460904]
Identifier: CC-34795-36502
Scope and Contents

Jackman made an artist book seated on two brass clawed feet. The pages are heavily collaged with drawings and photographs. The cover has metal fragments that include a turning, cogged wheel and spear-like object. This book object is placed within a baker's glass dome that is used to display a cake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Book of Love, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-14214-14521
Scope and Contents

Relates a visual poetic story of a failed love affair though six collaged pamphlets arranged in a grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Book of My Life, 1989

 Item — Box 144: [Barcode: 31858072457975]
Identifier: CC-28722-30028
Scope and Contents

Each page is a molded mask (of the artist?) made of paper with the addition of collage, straw, newspaper clippings, paint and embroidery thread. Each mask fits precisely into the following one, including the one on the cover, creating an exquisite, compact mask book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Book of Nails, 1992

 Item — Box 138: [Barcode: 31858072457918]
Identifier: CC-11013-11228
Scope and Contents

The authors aka Elizabeth Was and Miekal And. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Book of Tea JHK/Book o04 / Kocman, J.H.., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-59423-56982
Scope and Contents

The pages were made from pulped rea paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981