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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

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

Desert Storm/Desert Sand, 1991

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
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

 Item
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

Dictionnaire Illustre: Nouvelle Edition Refonde et Augmentee, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27507-28562
Scope and Contents

The book is arranged in an alphabetical order and lists handwritten words in French, English, and Latin selected by Seille conforming to her own scheme of visual importance for that letter. The visual images largely consist of material gleened from periodicals of the popular press. Photocopied material from French dictionaries is used often to form a background for Seille's handwritten lists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Die Bayerische Ursonate und andere Geschichten, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-39044-40982
Scope and Contents

This is one of six copies of a handwritten book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Die Blumen Sind Gelb / Fahrner, Barbara., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-12870-13160
Scope and Contents

Barbaraq Fshrner (1940-) was born and raised in Hanover, Germany and has lived in Frankfurt since 1940. The stapled pages provide an English translation of the poem that Fahrner has rendered into 16 drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Die Figur / Fahrner, Barbara., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-11175-11390
Scope and Contents

Also designated Ana Gramm 2nd reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984