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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Capital Letters, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-20385-20782
Scope and Contents

The main text was selected from Beatrice Warde's 1951 essay, "The Design of Books." The subtext was taken from Bradbury Thompson's 1945 essay in "Westvaco Inspirations." Warde's text on the lack of reading is interpreted in a set of 8 books with each book designed as a typographic reaction to Thompson's monoalphabet and alphabet 26 type experiments. Carothers forms words with capital and lowercase letters of the same size and weight to impart unusual appearances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Captions from Animals Looking at You, 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-31455-32945
Scope and Contents

Gallo exactly reproduced the title page, table of contents, and page numbers of an original book by Paul Eipper. He then removed all else except the captions that once accompanied the photographs of wild animals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Carta a una Pasion Muerta / Macia, Carlos., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-06176-6290
Scope and Contents

The copper box that contains this work has been fabricated as an envelope. The book deals with AIDS, a disease that ultimately caused Macia's death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Carte d'Arte. No.7/Dec / Bentivoglio M., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-17708-18077
Scope and Contents

Mirella Bentivoglio contributed a review of "Il Segno del Libro," an exhibition held at the Cagliari Fair featuring bookarts from 1896-1990. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

cARTe / Tzara T ; Isou I ; Oisteanu V., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-20374-20771
Scope and Contents

Includes an essay about the exhibition of Romanian artist books by Andrei Plesu, "Image, Writing, Breathing," in which he concludes: "And the microcosmic spirit of wind is the breath (k'i). Writing is an embodied breathing, a hieroglyph of the vital soul itself. And in a sense, the exhibition we ponder over is a discourse about breathing, about the meaningful rhythms of spontaneity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Case of Nouns and Verbs] / Shaw, Karen., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-35828-37588
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts a wood flatwear box with an open drawer that is filled with printed words. The inside lid contains adverbs, the top drawer nouns and the bottom drawer verbs. Karen Shaw's name is rubberstamped on the verso of the card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Cat Tales , 1980

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-22424-22848
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of unique book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Catalogue / Goulart, Claudio., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-31171-32639
Scope and Contents

This book has tabs on each page for the letters of the alphabet like an address book. The rubberstamped image implicitely or explicitely relates to that letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Caught in the Rain Broken in the Stardust / Pierson, Jack., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-04774-4864
Scope and Contents

The color of the text is white, hand-printed on black paper as if it were painted graffeti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Ce Jour La On N'avait Rien A Faire On A Fait Un Livre, 1968

 Item — Box 335: [Barcode: 31858072491040]
Identifier: CC-21090-21499
Scope and Contents

Most of the collage elements are circular reinforcements for the holes of loose leaf pages in varied colors -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Chaman/Lieu / de Charmoy, Cozette., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-15193-15514
Scope and Contents

This book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Chaman/Lieu / de Charmoy, Cozette ; Artaud A., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-15035-15351
Scope and Contents

Postface that was written by Rodney Grey gives an account of the subject of this book, the Shaman and his/her space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Chance Arranges Our Catalogue Volume One / Crozier, Robin., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-19637-20023
Scope and Contents

The pages are densely filled with small printed images taken mostly from popular magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Charme Der Armut, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-27032-27506
Scope and Contents

The drawings and rubberstampings are done on pages of brown wrapping paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994