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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Kniga-Book / Gerlovina, Rimma ; Gerlovin, Valeriy., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10594-10800
Scope and Contents

The worded photographs are contact prints that have been drawn upon in typical Gerlovin fashion. The red and black text and line drawings with thick pen strokes consist mostly of variations upon the accompanying photographic images. In addition, the text also includes concrete poems and manifestos. Several of the worded photographs have been released as individual prints in editions. This book was a commission piece from the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Knowledge Swirling Man Tell Slow Stories, 1984

 Item — Box 183: [Barcode: 31858072459534]
Identifier: CC-26506-26975
Scope and Contents

The visual Poetry and text was written by Miekal And. Elizabeth Was designed the bookbinding and colored the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Knowledge Swirling Man Tell Slow Stories / And, Miekal ; Beuys J., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-25832-26293
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding makes this copy unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

kocu koci [I Want To Go Home, I Want To Go Home. Etc...] / Stilinovic, Mladen., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-02325-2365
Scope and Contents

Most of the pages utilize the words of the title, "kocu and kuci." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Kronika, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-56452-9999860
Scope and Contents

Most of the pages in this book are blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Kuhle Muhtanten / Zielke, Ottfried ; Andryczuk, Hartmut., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28550-29832
Scope and Contents

The writings and drawings in this book are a collaborative effort between the two authors. Although the tirage is four copies, each book is unique. The cover design depicts markings from the skin of a cow. A toy cow with propellers on each side is attached to the top of the rear cover by means of bent metal tubing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Kurz und Schmerzgedichte / Breuer, Theo., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-38653-40563
Scope and Contents

The book includes four photocopied linocuts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Kyoto Grids / Margaret Ahrens Sahlstrand., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-59304-66276
Scope and Contents

The Sackners were impressed by the even grid layout of the streets of Kyoto and the artist has captured this theme with her books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

La Chasse Spirituelle / Albert Dupont., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-14801-15114
Scope and Contents

This book was made to honor the centenary of the birth of Arthur Rimbaud. The images are collaged to the 50 keys of a restored child's game. One image is collaged to the visible part of each key. Depression of the key, which is hinged, brings up two additional images, viz., one collaged to its undersurface, the other collaged to the surface that was covered by the upper part. The box of this object is covered by black cloth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

La Chasse Spirituelle / Albert Dupont., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-14801-15114
Scope and Contents

This book was made to honor the centenary of the birth of Arthur Rimbaud. The images are collaged to the 50 keys of a restored child's game. One image is collaged to the visible part of each key. Depression of the key, which is hinged, brings up two additional images, viz., one collaged to its undersurface, the other collaged to the surface that was covered by the upper part. The box of this object is covered by black cloth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

La Citta Visibili / Marocco, Armando., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-60622-54539
Scope and Contents This book is a trade edition altered by the artist.Wikipedia (Italian): Armando Marocco (1939- ) is an artist , painter and sculptor Italian , a member of the current of ' behavioral art . His work Man and Ant, 1968 constitutes a significant example. The work is exhibited in Milan in 1971 in the Galleria Apollinaire of Guido Le Noci , where the artist comes to reconstruct a habitat-anthill ants with 2,000 lives, arousing the interest of Pierre Restany and Renato Barilli. The turning point in his artistic life you have at the end of 1962, when on the advice of Lucio Fontana decided to move to Milan, a city rich in art and culture. He began to exhibit at some of the most famous galleries in Milan as the Gallery of Cenobio-Visuality , the Galleria Montenapoleone and the Galleria Apollinaire , where he met with Pierre Restany, founder of the New Realism. These invited him to collaborate with Jean Tinguely staging of Victory during the celebration of the tenth Anniversary of the Birth...
Dates: 1977

La Cultura del Caos / Cancelli, Mino., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28452-29720
Scope and Contents

This book appears to be a collection of pages that were misprints from an auction catalogue. Images from the items offered, furniture and accessories are superimposed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

La Guerilla Des Ecritures / Villegle, Jacques., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-49972-71031
Scope and Contents

This might be the sketch book for Villegle's installations at Renne and Paris in 1982; see the essay by Kaira Cabanas in Villegle 2007 (book held by the Sackner Archive), page 116. However, none of these two images are depicted in this book. Cabanas commented that this work has a commonality with Jenny Holzer's "Truisms." The back cover depicts a silhouette profile of Villegle with a hat stencilled in black ink, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981