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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Ich Du, 1968

 Item — Box 170: [Barcode: 31858072458320]
Identifier: CC-22072-22488
Scope and Contents

The pages are rendered with highly innovative typographic lay-out designs. One fold-out page unfolds from its two folds to form a square shaped print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Ich Finde], 1987

 Item — Box 180: [Barcode: 31858072459500]
Identifier: CC-57621-57276
Scope and Contents

There are pseudo-German baroque texts running througout the book that spawn figures or heads from the letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Iconomics 2.74: Infallible Counterfeit Detector / DeCoster, Miles., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-15059-15376
Scope and Contents

Tipped-in counterfeit money bills with documentation about them in English, Spanish, and made-up language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Idaho Center for the Book Newsletter. No.2/Oct., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31962-33490
Scope and Contents

The shape of this issue is a t-shirt as announced on the cover, "because people do read t-shirts." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Ideas Are Linked - Tour Catalogue / Olbrich, Jurgen ; Stake C ; Banana A ; Blurr B ; Fish P ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Pittore-Eurifico C., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-60356-52657
Scope and Contents

This book documents Olbrich's North American tour during 1985 including a visit to the Sackners house on Miami Beach from March 26 to April 1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

If You Sleep on Your Other Side It Will Go Away / Hastings, Pattie Belle., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09596-9787
Scope and Contents

Theme of this book is dreaming. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Ikoe Ole / Fedulov, Alexander., 1985 - 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35515-37255
Scope and Contents

There are 26 drawings in black and red inks that are framed by a row of newsprint; each of 13 pages has two drawings. In addition, there are three drawings in black and red inks that are not framed by a row of newsprint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985 - 1998

Il Cerchia dell Evocazione Demoniaco / Caruso, Luciano., 1977 - 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-19441-19824
Scope and Contents

The title translated into English means, The Circle of Demoniacal Recollections. The book has an appearance of an ancient one owing to the vellum binding with leather thongs. Caruso has used white paint for the written text making its reading difficult. There is a round perforation through all the pages, 7 cm in diameter, that exposes a crystal stone collaged onto the inside back cover. Several styles of calligraphy on the pages have been employed by Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977 - 1978

Il Cristo Cancellatore / Isgro, Emilio ; Restany P., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-36706-38522
Scope and Contents

The folded pamphlet includes an introductory essay by Pierre Restany and a manifesto by Isgro. The religious text in the books is cancelled with wide, black markings, so that no words, or very few words, remain visible on the page. The cancellations are typical of Isgro's visual poetic style. The four volumes are titled 1 to 4 Puntata. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Il Disconto / Caruso, Luciano., 1980 - 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-19134-19513
Scope and Contents

The content of this book is almost wholly calligraphic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980 - 1982

Il Libro a Quadretti / Pavanello, Giancarlo., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-04563-4650
Scope and Contents

The book also has 16 blank pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Il Mio Pensiero / Caruso, Luciano., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-19138-19517
Scope and Contents

The book is written in a free, experimental, calligraphic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Il Mondo Infronto / Caruso, Luciano., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-19445-19828
Scope and Contents

Several pages are glued together to form two thick pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Il Secondo Libro della Sibella Cumana (libro-opera) / Caruso, Luciano., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-19145-19524
Scope and Contents

This book wholly consists of calligraphic text in several styles. The utilization of heavily built-up paint on the one hand and sparkles on the other to form letters of the words is unusual in artist books genre. The words are written onto tissue paper of pink, green, purple, red and blue colored stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982