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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Pol - Kniga / Levchin, Rafael., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-28005-29158
Scope and Contents

The author's Ukrainian name is Rafael Le Vchyn. The collaged elements consist of printed texts and printed images taken from newspapers and periodicals. Only the first half of this book is collaged. Le Vchyn writes at the midpoint, "From this page everyone can add something to this Pol-Kniga (half-sex book), to write, to draw, to cut off or to collage. Please, help yourself! But - just from this page! But if you really want, you can make the same things on another pages..." This book was purchased by Marvin Sackner from the artist at the Eye Rhymes Conference in Edmonton in May, 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Polluted Lake Series: Shadows Over Lake Erie. No.12 / dagmaR., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-04369-4451
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. DagmaR [Polokovs] aka Mara was levy's common-in-law wife. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Pornography / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-57976-10001235
Scope and Contents

Images consist of nude women, discrete copulation and Japanese erotoca. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Postcard - Correction: [Souvenir de] / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-05451-5555
Scope and Contents

Consists of 14 printed postcards of colored photographs depicting women in swimsuits onto which are collaged large colored paper letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[Pourquoi] / Eristov Genghis Khan, Agathe., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-14081-14386
Scope and Contents

This a trade edition of a book in which the artist has cancelled the text with a variety of calligraphic and abstract markings. It is impossible to identify the trade edition because of the cancellation process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Pranayama Bhramari / Gloria Helfgott., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09481-9669
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Consists of four book objects bound together such that when spread apart, the shape of an "X" appears. The title indicates a Yoga expression meaning musical breathing. Body and breath move together with sound as a tool imparting a feeling of peace. The poem, excerpted from the Rig Veda X 129, is written in English on beads that turn inside metal containers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Pranayama Bhramari / Gloria Helfgott., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09481-9669
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Consists of four book objects bound together such that when spread apart, the shape of an "X" appears. The title indicates a Yoga expression meaning musical breathing. Body and breath move together with sound as a tool imparting a feeling of peace. The poem, excerpted from the Rig Veda X 129, is written in English on beads that turn inside metal containers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Prayers for the Unfaithful / Beatrice Coron., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29854-31235
Scope and Contents

Each one of four folded pages contains a unique silhouette representing the Health Goddess, Love Lord, Wall Street Divinities, and Jetset Lady. The background text humorously presents prayer-like incantations to relieve stressful situations. The metal disc with the fragmented text recto and verso must be spun to read the message "Shit Happens." Maledicta No.12 has a humorous listing by Reinhold Aman of "Shit Happens." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Prayers for the Unfaithful / Beatrice Coron., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29854-31235
Scope and Contents

Each one of four folded pages contains a unique silhouette representing the Health Goddess, Love Lord, Wall Street Divinities, and Jetset Lady. The background text humorously presents prayer-like incantations to relieve stressful situations. The metal disc with the fragmented text recto and verso must be spun to read the message "Shit Happens." Maledicta No.12 has a humorous listing by Reinhold Aman of "Shit Happens." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Prevailing Winds / Forster, Clare Chanler., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11256-11471
Scope and Contents

Poem relates to a man with whom Forster shared studio space and had a love-hate relationship. Includes six pages of photocopied colored prints with realistic and abstract images collaged to the page that illustrate the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Print: Computer Art & Design Annual 3. No.2/Mar-Apr / Crandall D ; Kent C., 1995

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Identifier: CC-04798-4889
Scope and Contents

Diane Crandall's book "Violent Crime," held by the Sackner Archive, is illustrated as a design award winner. Includes an essay by Juanita Dugdale on contemporary graphic design in religious art that utilized concrete and visual poetic themes. The computer generated brochures and books in this issue bear a close resemblence to artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995