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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Colour Me Dutiful, 1986

 Item — Box 144: [Barcode: 31858072457975]
Identifier: CC-39127-41069
Scope and Contents

The cast paper case is a death mask of a woman. Each drawing is a rubberstamped portrait of a woman's facial features dealing with her response to cosmetics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Columbia / Nicole Morello., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-60624-55072
Scope and Contents German Wilipedia: Nicole Morello (1953 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French artist who grew up in Paris and studied 1972-1973 at the University of Paris VI art - and art history and from 1973 to 1977 languages "‹"‹at the College of Interpreters and Translators. In 1978, she moved to Dusseldorf and met the painter Bernd Minnich , who promoted the art. It emerged first book objects. The years 1985 to 1990 she spent in Italy , the Switzerland and Austria. She lives and works since her return in 1990 in Dusseldorf. Initially, Nicole Morello dealt exclusively with book objects. These include art books with penguin colonies. With "Dia fragments" the artist initiated an art project, in which they animated to join. The result is a collaborative effort in which many people participate with their texts. The artist has worked predominantly figurative beginning their book objects, emerged more and more works that are abstract. A research in the Papeterie de Vaux, Dordogne, inspired to a video...
Dates: 1982

Columbia / Nicole Morello., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-60624-55072
Scope and Contents German Wilipedia: Nicole Morello (1953 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French artist who grew up in Paris and studied 1972-1973 at the University of Paris VI art - and art history and from 1973 to 1977 languages "‹"‹at the College of Interpreters and Translators. In 1978, she moved to Dusseldorf and met the painter Bernd Minnich , who promoted the art. It emerged first book objects. The years 1985 to 1990 she spent in Italy , the Switzerland and Austria. She lives and works since her return in 1990 in Dusseldorf. Initially, Nicole Morello dealt exclusively with book objects. These include art books with penguin colonies. With "Dia fragments" the artist initiated an art project, in which they animated to join. The result is a collaborative effort in which many people participate with their texts. The artist has worked predominantly figurative beginning their book objects, emerged more and more works that are abstract. A research in the Papeterie de Vaux, Dordogne, inspired to a video...
Dates: 1982

coming / Depew, Wally., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-15184-15505
Scope and Contents

The image on each page is a rubberstamped blue dragon with the lightest image at the beginning of the book that progresses to the darkest image at the end. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Comment Dire / Beckett, Samuel., 1998

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Identifier: CC-34023-35699
Scope and Contents

This book presents a poem by Beckett first published in 1989 as a folded sheet with four pages in a fasimile of his handwriting. The edition size of the 1st edition was 1989 copies and none were offered for sale. This posthumous rendition of the poem is presented in an elegant typographic layout. It is interspersed with ancient illustrations, calligraphic texts, a page of the Passover Haggadah and many reproductions of drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Compa / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09239-9420
Scope and Contents

In addition to conventional poetry, fragments of words derived fom the menu of a San Francisco mission restaurant are utilized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Completing the Circle: Artists' Books on the Environment / Beube D ; Denes A ; Freeman B ; Hiller S ; McCarney S ; Minsky R ; Nauman B ; Risseeuw J ; Ruscha E ; VanVliet C ; Vater R ; Nauman B ; Dove R ; Gilbert S ; Wirth K ; Edgar Heap of Birds ; Long R ; Fulton H ; Irland B ; Zimmerman P., 1992

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Identifier: CC-18928-19306
Scope and Contents

This exhibition of works by American artists dealing with environmental issues was curated by Betty Bright who wrote a critical essay for the catalog. The Sackner Archive lent the artist book, Sisters of Menon, by Susan Hiller to the exhibition. The stapled pages are reviews of the exhibition. The catalog reproduces Rita Dove's print, "Ozone," which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Completing the Circle / Robinson, Philomena., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27408-28451
Scope and Contents

The fold-out portion of the page has been dye cut with several curved, perforated patterns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Computer Buch from a Library of Strange Books, 1988

 Item — Box 183: [Barcode: 31858072459534]
Identifier: CC-49024-70062
Scope and Contents

The book is cut horizontally through the pages and slightly rotated. The fore-edge and cardboard base are painted green.Internet: Sarah Firmin (Dorothy Carr) (1933-) is a versatile artist, designer and teacher, gaining her painting diploma at St Martin's School of Art. Working at the London College of Printing, (together with Francis Carr, whom she married) Firmin helped pioneer the use of screenprinting as a fine art medium in the late 1940s. They have been credited with producing some of the first screenprints to be made in this country, and for introducing the medium to a number of artists including Eduardo Paolozzi. Firmin took part in numerous group shows and her solo exhibitions include the ICA, 1970; Gardner Art Centre, Sussex University, 1982; and Barbican Centre, 1991. The British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum hold examples of her work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988