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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Il Vangelo / Antonio del Donno., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-15982-16317
Scope and Contents

The letters of the text are branded into the wooden planks which are bound by bent metal hinges. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[Illegible] / Illegible., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-54849-990279
Scope and Contents

This book was purchased at Eye Rhymes, a visual poetry conference held in Edmonton that was attended by Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Illustrated Books are Making a Comeback / Russell, John; LeWitt S; Beckett S; Johns J; Phillips T; Apollinaire G; Ruscha E., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-03585-3650
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips' "Divine Comedy" and Jasper Johns' "Fizzels," mentioned in the review are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Illustrated Books / Black Sun Books ; Johns J ; Paolozzi E ; Ting W ; Rauschenberg R ; Ashbery J., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-23791-24239
Scope and Contents

LIsted in the catalog and held by the Sackner Archive are "Fizzels" by Jasper Johns," "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" published by Arion Press, "1 Cent Life, and "Opal Gospel" by Rauschenberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Im Alfabeet / Sorgel, Hartmut., 1991

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Identifier: CC-02470-2510
Scope and Contents

This is the deluxe, handcolored edition of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

I'm Your Normal, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-12786-13070
Scope and Contents

All the words in the uncancelled text of the two opened pages of this book object (onto which is attached a stethoscope) are pronouns, viz. I, you, us, yourself, he, etc., presumably signifying that everyone but the one who is reading the text is abnormal in the context of the organ systems which are examined with a stethoscope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Image Of / Adamczewska, Joanna ; Williams E ; Johansson S ; Olbrich JO ; Noel A ; Heidsieck B., 1989

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Identifier: CC-26479-26948
Scope and Contents

Each book begins with page 1 at the end, an original calligraphic or visual drawing by each artist. Then from rear to front, each drawing is slightly altered as an abstraction, page by page by Adamczewska, so that on the final page at the front of the book, the original contribution has evolved into a total abstract drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Imagine della Scrittura / Algardi, Alessandro., 1983

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Identifier: CC-27039-27513
Scope and Contents

The pages are black heavy stock paper and the binding is smooth black leather. The handwriting on some pages has been done with graphite and on others with black paint mixed with glue to create an appearance of letters in relief. The writing consists of indecipherible calligraphic markings done in a variety of styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Imago / Pavanello, Giancarlo., 1993

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Identifier: CC-04834-4927
Scope and Contents

Some of the text is written in red ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Imago / Pavanello, Giancarlo., 1993

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Identifier: CC-60794-893278
Scope and Contents

Some of the text is written in red ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

In Camera, 1991

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Identifier: CC-09480-9668
Scope and Contents

The book object and box have the shapes of pentagons. Each side is perforated to serve as a camera obscura so that the viewer can visualize an image from the book object or outside of it through the opposite side of the pentagon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

In Memorium De / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08768-8943
Scope and Contents

Written in homage to a dead friend, Emil de Antonio, an avant garde film maker who was also a press agent for Stella and Warhol in their early days. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990