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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Miami Beach / Sackner, Sara., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-45663-47862
Scope and Contents

Each collage (postcard) depicts an abstract impression of Miami Beach scenes made of cut, colored construction paper. They are labeled water, blimp, beach strip, pool and causeway on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Midnight / Minoy., 1983

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Identifier: CC-59299-54261
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Minoy was the pseudonym of the electronic art musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (October 30, 1951 - March 19, 2010). He was a major figure in the DIY noise music and homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s. He released over 100 compositions. Stanley Keith Bowsza chose his pseudonym Minoy based upon how someone he met mispronounced the name of one of his favorite artists, the Catalan Surrealist Joan Miro. He is recognized as the master of controlled noise. He lived and worked in Torrance, California.Minoy produced some of the most remarkably engrossing, beautiful and imaginative work-of-art albums released on cassette in the 1980s, often with hand made covers. Minoy was an agoraphobic but prolific noise artist intensely active in the music underground between the years 1986 and 1992. During that period he created many unique audio works in collaboration with other sound artists and mail artists. Minoy was an avid mail collaborator,...
Dates: 1983

Millilitermeer: Fragment 1990-1991, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-27029-27503
Scope and Contents

All the color illustrations of Andryczuk's drawings are tipped onto the pages. The prints and drawing are housed in an insert on the inside of the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Mimi Ta Book / Behar, Zachary Sackner., 1990

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Identifier: CC-23911-24359
Scope and Contents

Zachary Behar, age 3, is the grandson of Ruth and Marvin Sackner. This is his first completed book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Miniaturin III (1992-1995) / Konstriktor, Boris., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27405-28448
Scope and Contents

Eighteen expressionistic self-portrait drawings done with black-gray watercolors are affixed one to each page. They measure approximately 12.5 cm x 7.5 cm. In addition, two drawings are done as full pages in black, blue, and yellow paint over a found (?) Russian calligraphic text. The pages in white painted, handwriting appears to be a sound poem dealing with the sentence in German, "I am a dummy" and extensions of this sentence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Miracle / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15179-15500
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a circle within a square of different colored schema. The duplicates have the same color scheme but vary slightly in their layouts on the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Mirror Talk / Kyle, Hedi., 1986

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Identifier: CC-07713-7863
Scope and Contents

This is a masterpiece of book binding and mirror writiing content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

[mirror writing] / Werbachowska, Alicja., 1992

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Identifier: CC-29701-31076
Scope and Contents

The text was written on translucent paper and then folded such that it remained on the inside surface of the sleeve pages. The ink writings appear as mirror writings on the outside surface owing to transmission through the translucency of the paper. The text was written on a slant on part of each page. It gives a Moebus strip-like appearance when the book is opened and several pages are viewed simultaneously through the translucent paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Missing Pages: Idaho & the Book / Day L ; Trusky T ; Castle J., 1994

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Identifier: CC-06611-6730
Scope and Contents

This exhibition that was curated by Tom Trusky deals with books related by content or author to Idaho. Provides biography and reproduction of the bookworks of James Castle (1899-1977), an illiterate deaf mute who made artist books with visual/verbal content from an early age until his death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

MMM - Extra: Die Fische. No.3 / Pierre Garnier., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33999-35675
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a drawing of a fish or sea scene and a handwritten explanation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

MMM - Extra: Die Nixen von Minsk. No.11 / Wolfgang Muller., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38977-40914
Scope and Contents

The book consists of a diary text with pictures of a city and a pencil drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

MMM - Extra: Fabelhafte Tiere, Ebensolche Menschen. No.2/Mar-Apr / Burkhard Heyl., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33694-35355
Scope and Contents

This book consists of reproductions of collages of antique engravings of mythologic creatures, e.g., sphinx, harpie, satyr, sirene, etc. on newspaper texts. The collage by Heyl depicts two images of mythological creatures on a chess board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

MMM - Extra: Gold & Sold Artist Production: Heraldic. No.5 / Freddy Flores Knistoff ; Harmut Andryczuk., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34403-36100
Scope and Contents

This book consists of reproductions of found pages of heraldic illustrations, ink drawings on graph paper by Andryczuk, reproductions of old Germanic engravings and abstract drawings on chemistry texts by Knistoff. The drawing by the two artists consists of an offset printed page of German heralds with over-painted black and silver abstract figures . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

MMM - Extra: Im Unterstrom. No.6 / Dietmar Becker., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34782-36488
Scope and Contents

The laid-in photographs by Becker of assemblages or collages of quasi-surrealistic, found or reconstructed landscapes, figures, and objects illustrate the poetic and fictive text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

MMM - Extra: Insektenwelt. No.10 / Pierre Garnier., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37749-39627
Scope and Contents

The book consists of reproductions of line drawings dealing with the theme of insects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

MMM - Extra. No.9 / Claudia Putz ; Katharina Eckart., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36705-38521
Scope and Contents

Putz contributed three stories and Eckart illustrated the book with five collages with found texts and rubberstampings on red paper bases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

MMM - Extra: Pariser Tagebuch. No.12 / Uwe Warnke., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38976-40913
Scope and Contents

The book consists of a diary text and abstract drawings on paper targets collaged to the page. The cover is a bound map. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002