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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Concerto pour Oeil et Oreille / Isou, Isidore ; Dupont, Albert ; Tasiv, Genevieve., 1984

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Identifier: CC-08520-8691
Scope and Contents

Poems were composed by Isou, cover and aquatints were made by DuPont with the exception of one aquatint done by Tasiv. The first 10 copies of this book contain a duplicate set of prints on Japon paper. Two of the prints are portraits of DuPont's two daughters formed from dense accumulation of letters, numbers, and hieroglyphic elements. The sound poems were composed by Isou. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Concrete / Kryss, Tom L. ; rjs., 1967

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Identifier: CC-44127-46252
Scope and Contents

This book was assembled from extra pages leftover from The Marrahwannah Quarterly Vol.3 No.4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Confracti Mundi Rudera / Poltroon Press ; Butler F ; Johnston A., 1985

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Identifier: CC-28465-29735
Scope and Contents

Francis Butler and Alistair Johnston are the proprietors of the press and presumably the authors of this highly eccentric but beautifully printed visual/verbal book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Confusion / Cutts, Heidi., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20216-20612
Scope and Contents

The tissue covered prints are tied and fastened with two silk ribbons making it impossible to completely read the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Conjugation of the Verb: To Work / Tan, Elisa., 1983

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Identifier: CC-28781-30091
Scope and Contents

This book, which is designated 2nd version, deals with Tan's memories of working 9 hours a day in a hand-bag factory in 1977. She pasted imitation-leather onto cardboard. The text relates to a printed book first editioned in 1978 in 50 copies of lists of similar text. The second edition in 1991 also done in 50 copies is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Connections Project/Conexus / Allen R ; Cutler-Shaw J ; Hackman V ; Lanyon E ; Lyons J ; Neaderland L ; Pindell H ; Ringgold F ; Rothenberg E ; Saar B ; Spero N ; Schneemann C ; Shaw K ; Sleigh S ; Smith M., 1987

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Identifier: CC-18447-18819
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Josely Carvalho and Sabra Moore. The titles of the books are: Documentation/Documentação, Food/Alimento, Birth/Nascimento, Shelter/Habitação, Environment/Meio-Ambiente, Race/Raça, Spirit/Espirito, War//Death / Guerra//Morte, and Body/Corpa. The exhibition catalog was conceived as a collaborative artist book by 150 American and Brazilian feminist artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Contemporary Artists' Books / King R ; Christie J ; Fisher R ; Tyson I ; Rothenberg J ; Cutts S ; Roth D ; Mayer HJ ; Williams E ; Phillips T ; MacLow J ; Furnival J., 1980

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Identifier: CC-18524-18896
Scope and Contents

The presses listed in this catalog publishing artists' books include Circle Press, Coracle Press, Editions Alecto, Hansjorg Mayer, Marlborough Graphics, Waddington Galleries, Will and Sebastian Carter, World's End Press and Tetrad Press. Several books described in the catalog are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Cooked Books , 1983

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-25899-26360
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispo, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Cooper Book #1, 1989

 Item — Box 193: [Barcode: 31858072459633]
Identifier: CC-09912-10109
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of thin copper sheets. Artist has punched out small holes to form words or markings and passes black thread through the holes to form the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Copyrighted Trade Marks / Eriksson, Leif., 1980

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Identifier: CC-13765-14070
Scope and Contents

The pages contain rubberstamped autographs of famous artists, such as Picasso, Miro, Chagall as well as the author himself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Corps Au Bord , 1985

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Identifier: CC-06671-6790
Scope and Contents

The book and its pages are shaped in a semi-circle. The narrative deals with the people and plans for a mythical utopia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Correspondence / Drucker, Barbara., 1988

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Identifier: CC-15915-16248
Scope and Contents Mentions purchase of "book of nails" by Marvin Sackner. The artist's notes and correspondence are typed and printed as photonegatives. The pages are not numbered. Internet: Drucker's work, which includes sculptural objects, installations, photography, video, painting, and artists' books, has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Mazzocchi Gallery, Parma, Italy; Libera Academia di Belle Arti, Brescia, Italy; Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria; Kennedy Gallery, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece; Bouzianis Gallery, Athens, Greece; Art Centre of Hasselt, Belgium; Gallery SIDAC, Leiden, Holland; Biblioteca Rionale Affori, Milan, Italy; Center for Book Arts, New York; 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica; Space Gallery, Los Angeles; Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica; Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Rutgers University Gallery, Camden, New Jersey; Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.; and...
Dates: 1988