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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Degotim / Palou, Joan., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-30715-32159
Scope and Contents

All pages in this book are blank except for a single page in the center that has the letter 'a' printed in the center of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Der Brei / Steinbacher, Christian., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02063-2101
Scope and Contents

The text of this book is printed with rubberstamped type. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Der Mittwochsclub / Wednesday Club, The ; Olbrich JO ; Richter C ; Roth M ; Voiges B., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-54814-990243
Scope and Contents

The Wednesday Club consists of several artists, four of whom collaborated in producing this book. It has been made with an appropriated old, handwritten accounting ledger. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Der Quangle Wangle Quee by Edward Lear / Lock, Rolf ; Lear E., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-27493-28541
Scope and Contents

The German text for this nonsense poem of Edward Lear is based upon the translation by Adolf Halbey. The illustrations for the poem are imaginary creatures, maps, numbers, fragments of music scores, and abstract markings. The cover depicts a cloth relief of the imaginary creature in the poem sewn to the fabric of the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Desert Storm/Desert Sand / Neaderland, Louise Odes., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-05570-5677
Scope and Contents

This bookwork emphasizes the major role of television in the conduct of the Gulf War. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Desire by Anais Nin / Maisner, Bernard., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-38000-39886
Scope and Contents

This work was lent to the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in St. Louis for Maisner's travelling retrospective exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Dessins-Ecriture / Dautricourt, Joelle., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-15885-16218
Scope and Contents

Each drawing is entitled, "Monumentale..." in graphite on the upper left verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Dialogue, 1997

 Item — Box 211: [Barcode: 31858072459237]
Identifier: CC-53181-74333
Scope and Contents

The pages of the booklets consist of photocopied typewritten texts. The box is addressed to P[atricia] Collins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

DiaLugen, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02712-2755
Scope and Contents

Although the edition size is nine copies, every drawing in each of the copies is unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Diario 1973 / Vittore Baroni., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-21846-22257
Scope and Contents

Photographic image of Baroni on front cover; book cannot be opened. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Diario 1973 / Vittore Baroni., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-21846-22257
Scope and Contents

Photographic image of Baroni on front cover; book cannot be opened. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Diary 14076 - 14484 / Malik, Axel George., 2001 - 2002

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Identifier: CC-38904-40833
Scope and Contents The writing of the made-up ideograms in the book is in acrylic mainly with Rapidiograph 0.13 to 0.25 mm fine. In the last section, the writing was done with magic marker. On his website (2007) Malik comments on his work as follows. "In 1989 I started the project on daily "Writing" that I have continued ever since. The writing process consists of individual, sign-like characters that never repeat themselves. The traces of movement entail complex lines of a sphere of motion that becomes ever more differentiated. The result cannot be read, or certainly not in the customary sense of the word. The signs of this expansive matrix do not describe anything beyond their own vibration and the curved density of their frequency. It is not their task, claim and meaning to be equivalent or adequate to something "out there", to act as a symbol, or functional script coding information. The moment one releases writing from that intent, something decisive happens in the movement of writing, because...
Dates: 2001 - 2002