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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Cyph Book 5 / Walker, Reginald., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-32140-33681
Scope and Contents According to Reginald Walker, his oeuvre is concerned with mythological books. Mythological or Spirit books are ritual talismanic books and book objects symbolic of astrological, numerological, Kabbalic and prophetic divination. These shamanistic objects d'art are also based on esoteric alchemical for-mularies, sacred and obscure high words, as well as magical encantations and amulets. Aesthetically, these works represent the ancient Egyptian and Ethiopian Coptic Codex functioning as a somewhat Iconic art object; created as metamorphosic ethnic fantasies, these mythic codices are fusions of Egyptian Ethiopian, Nubian, Byzantine, Islamic, and Celtic fetish-art.Developmental materials include papyrus, vellum, parchment, alum-tawed skins, native-dyed goatskins, iron, silver, gold, bronze, copper, brass, bone, feathers, acrylics, tempera, various indigenous woods/textiles, linen, and various handmade papers.Mythological books reflect ancient, contemporary, occult, and supernatural...
Dates: 1985

Czechoslovakian Bookbinders / Kocman JH ; Sobota J., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-20023-20412
Scope and Contents

The exhibition is titled "The Best Contemporary Czechoslovakian Design Bookbinders." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Dadark Room, 1980

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-21772-22183
Scope and Contents

There is no text; the book consists of blank, black pages. The artist committed suicide in November 2009 at age 71 because of unrelenting tinnitis (ringing in the ears). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Dances in Masks / Perevezentsev, Pyotr., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-27496-28545
Scope and Contents

Each page has a watercolor depicting a colored, line drawing of a human figure with a mask that appears to be dancing. Below each image is a caption in a faint calligraphic text.Internet biography: 1962 born in Moscow, . 1985 Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Technology (Faculty of Arts and Technology), . since 1987 member of the Youth Association of MOSH, 1989 Member of the MOSH. Collections works: State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, Moscow,. Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, nna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg. Gallery M'ARS, Moscow, Moscow Collection Gallery, Moscow, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kiingdom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Dancing Dave / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09160-9341
Scope and Contents

This book was made as a memorial to the death of David Bronk, a San Francisco street poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Dangling Participle, 1998

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-32014-33545
Scope and Contents

This work was purchased from the exhibition "Textiles/Fibers/Threads: The Book Show" at The Center for Book Arts, New York. The exhibition was curated by Kumi Korf and Charlotte Thorpe. Hensel describes her work as follows: "The words we all speak and think link together in sentences, disjointed phrases, odd web structures, broken threads and dangling participles. The words rush out of a vein, they cascade over all our experiences. This particular piece is about those threads of conversation left unfinished, dangling out of context, with sometimes unexpected consequences. At the time that I wrote this piece, I was thinking about the cruelty of teenage girls and about the half-truths and innuendos we hear on the news daily. This is a meander through the effects of impulsive adolescent conversations and rumors." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Danse Vanitas Danse / de Charmoy, Cozette., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28766-30073
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of printed rubberstampings and drawings that depict male and female nude figures, embracing as in a dance. These images progress from life through death as represented by skeletons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Dante's Barber Shop / Halsey, Alan., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-38625-40534
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of the subtitle "De Vulgari Eloquentia" with found texts, apparently assembled by the cut-up technique, surrounded by photographic llustrations of urban scenes. The work was composed serially from 1999-2001 and was originally issued in sets of loose prints on heavy card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

daquilungoparoleiomisono / Luigi Tola., 1991

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Identifier: CC-01601-1636
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book/portfolio in which all sides are collaged or written upon is women's lips and eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Das globale Kasebuch, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-27031-27505
Scope and Contents

The title relates to several printed (found) pages in the book depicting Mickey Mouse like characters playing in Swiss Cheese. Images drawn by the artist appear on printed maps, index pages, and on black and white paper stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

DATURA / Depew, Wally., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-15168-15489
Scope and Contents The word "DATURA" is rubberstamped in different layouts over several pages followed by an "APPENDIX" repeating the word "DATURA" in different colors with overprinting and smudging on a wider page that has been folded in at one end and rubberstamped with a colored flower. Wikipedia states the following: Datura are herbaceous, leafy annuals and short-lived perennials which can reach up to 2 meters in height. The leaves are alternate, 10--20 cm long and 5--18 cm broad, with a lobed or toothed margin. The flowers are erect or spreading (not pendulous like those of the closely allied Brugmansia), trumpet-shaped, 5--20 cm long and 4--12 cm broad at the mouth; colors vary from white to yellow, pink, and pale purple. The fruit is a spiny capsule 4--10 cm long and 2--6 cm broad, splitting open when ripe to release the numerous seeds. The seeds disperse freely over pastures, fields and even wasteland locations. Datura belongs to the classic "witches' weeds," along with deadly nightshade,...
Dates: 1985

dbqp: Goobdooqpres 2: The Russian Book of The. No.92/Mar / Geof Huth., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-14811-15124
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of blank colored papers and transparent acetate without text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990