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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Photo Archive, 2004

 Item — Box 299: [Barcode: 31858072460888]
Identifier: CC-42719-44738
Scope and Contents

The drawings are sketches of the locations of items within Collins' archive. The photographs document various Collins inspired projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Photoanalysis / Leiber, Steven ; Barry R ; Beuys J ; Boltanski C ; Gerz J ; Kaprow A ; Kruger B ; Levine L ; Long R ; Ruppersberg A ; Tot E ; Maciunas G ; Higgins D ; Gette PA ; Ben ; LeGac J ; Boltanski C ; Bory JF ; Attalai G ; Abramovic M ; Baldessari J ; Messager A ; Breakwell I ; Calle S ; Kirby M ; Ontani L ; Matta-Clark G ; Willats S ; Tot E ; Ruscha E ; Snow M ; Weiner L., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-07524-7668
Scope and Contents

The catalogue is an example of Neo-Dada with found texts (these are cited in a bibliogrpahy on a loose sheet) opposite the item for sale bearing minimal relation to that item. The annotated items for sale are covered by a tipped-in, photocopied, reproduction from the item. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

[Photographic Album] / Cobbing, Bob., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-17300-17664
Scope and Contents

Works are print-ready, sound poems housed in a standard photographic album. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Photos of 2002 / Dmitry Babenko., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-40110-42079
Scope and Contents

The disc contains images of Babenko's artistic works of 2002 in jpeg and tiff formats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Phrex Brain, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-00355-363
Scope and Contents

Contains a page depicting the lungs with a caption from a clipping about the scientific aspects of models, viz. "We do not necessarily believe that the picture of nature we thus form is the real world. Many scientists say it is simply a model that works!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Phrex Brain / Was, Elizabeth., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-00357-365
Scope and Contents

Contains a page depicting the lungs with a caption from a clipping about the scientific aspects of models, viz. "We do not necessarily believe that the picture of nature we thus form is the real world. Many scientists say it is simply a model that works!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Pictoesies, 1998

 Item — Box 128: [Barcode: 31858072458304]
Identifier: CC-33697-35359
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts four horizontally placed squares containing line drawings and texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Pictographs / Keith, Bill ; McHugh B., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34777-36483
Scope and Contents

Keith hand colored his trade edition book and added fragments of text, with West African cultural images, and integrated elements of music scores with the pictographs and signs. This book is hand colored and collaged by the Keith from his trade edition book designed by Bryan McHugh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Pictured Books / Seille G., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-03781-3853
Scope and Contents

Curated by Paul Hatton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Pine Cone / Happersett, Susan., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-09810-10004
Scope and Contents

The artist writes that "this series of drawings is based on a sequence of fibonacci numbers and ratios that form parallel spirals in pine cones." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Pitiless Pieta / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09032-9209
Scope and Contents

Deals with the issue of the "atrocity reports of the Iraqis...to the exclusion of all the people we had destroyed..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Place Names of Oxfordshire / Claire, Paula ; Spencer, Isabelle., 1981 - 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-17475-17841
Scope and Contents

The poem is by Claire (composed in 1981) and the calligraphy by Spencer. Isabelle Spencer (1924-2011) was a teacher in the British school system and a calligrapher. The other copy of this book is owned by Paula Claire. The poem is in the poetic style of naming ships by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981 - 1991

planaxol chromatographic edge book / Kocman, J.H.., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-59387-56760
Scope and Contents

This booklet in concept resembles booklets made by Wally Depew. It was probably made by dipping the blank pages of this booklet into diluted planaxol. planaxol is a special resin glue for manual perfect binding of most paper grades as well as for many other adhesives work with paper, cardboard, textiles, etc. The booklet is rubberstamped 241 on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

planaxol continueted dripping book / Kocman, J.H.., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-59388-10002464
Scope and Contents

This booklet in concept resembles booklets made by Wally Depew. It was probably made by dripping planaxol onto a blank page of the unassembed booklet. Planaxol is a special redin glue for manual perfect binding of most paper grades as well as for many other adhesives work with paper, cardboard, textiles, etc. It is rubberstamped 157 on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Please make our birthdays better than last year] / Leftwich, Jim., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36966-38799
Scope and Contents

This book is a combination of visual poems, philosophical musings, abstract drawings and found poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001