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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Buch / Alain Jadot., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-32508-34085
Scope and Contents

This small book is designed and cut to resemble a package of cigarettes, with its cover carrying the brand name, "Buch," instead of Marlborough cigarettes. It is fastened together with an official looking stamp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Buch / Alain Jadot., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-32508-34085
Scope and Contents

This small book is designed and cut to resemble a package of cigarettes, with its cover carrying the brand name, "Buch," instead of Marlborough cigarettes. It is fastened together with an official looking stamp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Bucher Ohne Worte/Livres Sans Paroles / Gut E ; Tapies A ; Ulrichs T., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-22721-23156
Scope and Contents

The introduction was written by Sigrid Farten. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Bucher/Livres / Schwarz, Robert., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02227-2267
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive is listed as a organization collecting the works of Robert Schwarz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Buchkunst der Gegenwart / Brecht G ; Werwerka S ; Fahrner B ; Finlay IH ; Phillips T ; Wagner Dr ; Zelevansky P., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-22718-23153
Scope and Contents

Contains reproductions of T. Phillips' "The Heart of the Humument" and "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Building Steam #277 / Donald Lipski., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-40504-42476
Scope and Contents

Lipski arranged braille pages into a fan-like pattern. He placed melted paraffin down the center of the pages and attached this work to a base of covers of a Standard and Poor's financial analysis book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Burning Books Press / Drum, David., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-15571-15898
Scope and Contents

Mention is made that books from Burning Books Press may be found in "prestigious private collections such as the Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Burnt Book], 1995

 Item — Box 193: [Barcode: 31858072459633]
Identifier: CC-05717-5824
Scope and Contents

The scorched, mutilated book wrapped in an incomplete wire grid is Nicastri's visual metaphor for the Holocaust and the Nazi burning of Jewish books. The wooden pine box without nails signifies the Jewish coffin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Bush Special Playing Cards, 2008

 Item — Box 213: [Barcode: 31858072459310]
Identifier: CC-50809-71887
Scope and Contents

Each except tor the Joker is collaged with images of coffins draped with the America flag containing dead American soldiers from the Iraq war. The Joker card is collaged with a portrait of George Bush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Buxida Vospine / Zush., 1983 - 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-00102-105
Scope and Contents

Zush uses a self-invented calligraphic language in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983 - 1984

C-Arte [ painted box], 1991

 Item — Box 57: [Barcode: 31858072538584]
Identifier: CC-04164-4243

[Cabalist Book], 1992

 Item — Box 255: [Barcode: 31858072458247]
Identifier: CC-07238-7381
Scope and Contents

The artist writes "This book is a visual manifestation of my musings after a night in the Scriptorium Sackner. It may be read from either direction, or opened randomly. It is given with thanks and affection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Cahier de Television, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09342-9528
Scope and Contents

Includes eight ink drawings, dated 1984, whose imagery and density are similar to some of the drawings in Bar-Bar 1988, also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Cahier No.1: De L'Art Des Combinaisons: le lettre y, le traca, le mot / Mairey, Francoise., 2011 - 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-58048-10001294
Scope and Contents

The page count is the sum of the right sided inked pages including the bleed-throughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011 - 2012

Cahier No.2: De L'Art Des Combinaisons: le lettre w, le trace, le mot / Mairey, Francoise., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-58230-10001484
Scope and Contents

The page count is the sum of the right sided inked pages including the bleed-throughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012