Artist book

Procrustes' Bed / Lown, Rebecca ; Meador C., 1990

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Identifier: CC-07214-7356

Scope and Contents

The theme deals with cosmetic surgery of the face, breasts and buttocks in women. Lown writes that Procrustes was a Greek who offered a night's lodging to travellers. He had two beds, a small and a large one. Short lodgers were given the large bed and were racked to fit them. Taller ones were assigned the small bed and Procrustes sawed off the portion of their legs extending beyond its length. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Produkt: Found Poetry / Deisler, Guillermo., 1992

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Identifier: CC-15085-15403

Dates: 1992

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Profit Prophet / Chalker-Tennant, Nancy., 1989

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Identifier: CC-16887-17243

Dates: 1989

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Project For Installation At Galleria Milano / Martini, Sandro., 1983

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Identifier: CC-06715-6834

Scope and Contents

The cover consists of a drawing for the artist's exhibition at the gallery collaged onto corrugated cardboard. Painted translucent paper depicting constructivistic imagery has been collaged onto the former to form a palimpset. The drawings in this book are numbered to form a grid, 7 x 3, that can be wall mounted as in the installation that took place in Galleria Milano. Sandro Martini was born in 1941 in Livorno and works in Milan and San Francisco. He makes painting installations for gallery exhibitions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Proletariat / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08767-8942

Scope and Contents

Hirschman's response to political events in Eastern Europe and his defense of Albania. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

P...S / Klassen, Norbert ; Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 1998

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Identifier: CC-34784-36490

Scope and Contents

The original book is an illustrated copy of Walt Disney's Pocahontas. Klassen and Olbrich collaged the pages with jigsaw puzzle pieces and found handwritten and typed library catalogue cards. Stored in Olbrich box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Psalm 23 / Carey, Brainard H.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-19122-19501

Scope and Contents

Brainard Carey was formerly known as Brian Salzberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Psalm Of Aisha / Rachael Romero., 1986

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Identifier: CC-53665-50838

Scope and Contents This book uses a sufi text with repetitive images of rubberstamped hands. Rachael Romero left Australia as a teen, eventually choosing to live and work in NY. Since the 1970's Romero has worked with printmaking, public art, mass installation, performance, film, video, painting and drawing. Many of her posters are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, MOMA, NY; The Oakland Museum, among others. Artists books by Rachael Romero (Rabyaashki is Romero's sufi name) are hand-made, with found and fine papers and are mostly unique (some few are in small but not identical editions) and were made in the 1980's. While studying Sufi calligraphic texts in the late 80's and early 1990's, Romero made a number of books as a way to assimilate the material. Romero also made books using materials from her creative process and in response to nature. She has made a handful of books incorporating students' art, to give people a "voice"...

Dates: 1986

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Psalm Of Aisha / Rachael Romero., 1986

Item

Identifier: CC-53665-50838

Scope and Contents This book uses a sufi text with repetitive images of rubberstamped hands. Rachael Romero left Australia as a teen, eventually choosing to live and work in NY. Since the 1970's Romero has worked with printmaking, public art, mass installation, performance, film, video, painting and drawing. Many of her posters are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, MOMA, NY; The Oakland Museum, among others. Artists books by Rachael Romero (Rabyaashki is Romero's sufi name) are hand-made, with found and fine papers and are mostly unique (some few are in small but not identical editions) and were made in the 1980's. While studying Sufi calligraphic texts in the late 80's and early 1990's, Romero made a number of books as a way to assimilate the material. Romero also made books using materials from her creative process and in response to nature. She has made a handful of books incorporating students' art, to give people a "voice"...

Dates: 1986

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Publications 1984 / Coracle Press ; Cutts S ; Williams J ; Torok K ; Meyer T ; Clark TA ; Phillips T., 1984

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Identifier: CC-18542-18914

Dates: 1984

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Publications Early 1985 - March 2000 / Granary Books ; Bee S ; Bernstein C ; Berrigan T ; Blake W ; Fahrner B ; Gallo P ; Cage J ; Clay S ; Phillips R ; Coolidge C ; Creeley R ; Cutts S ; Drescher H ; Drucker J ; Freeman B ; Elmslie K ; Ely T ; Hamady W ; Hubert JB ; Hubert RR ; Klima S ; Knowles A ; Metcalf P ; Reese H ; Rothenberg J ; Guss D ; Rower H ; Schwitters K ; Spector B ; Williams J ; Kitaj R ; Zwicker T., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34101-35782

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Pulmoneorum Descriptio Locorum Index Verborum, 1990

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Identifier: CC-02635-2678

Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. Drawings, booklet and cards are inserted into sleeve pages formed by partial fastening with paper tape. The pages depict bizarre, human-like figures and obsessive, multiple calligraphic styles. Seille lists words in French and English relating to breathing on cards but the major text on the pages on lung anatomy and disease is taken from Latin writings of Pliny, e.g. "a heavy cold clears up if the sufferer kisses a mule's muzzle." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Pushing the Envelope, 1997

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Identifier: CC-35700-37451

Scope and Contents

Air mail envelopes, mailed to Kim Lieberman by herself, were returned from around the world from places she travelled. A chart documents the places and timing of the mailings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

[Put Your Protest on This Wall] / Duch, Leonhard Frank., 1980

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Identifier: CC-15654-15982

Dates: 1980

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Quartett '88, 1990

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Identifier: CC-14543-14854

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Query, Quest, & Quasi / Rosenberg, Marilyn R.., 1997

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Identifier: CC-37818-39698

Scope and Contents

Rosenberg writes that this book is about "bones imagery, fabric imagery, lines of words and fragmented words interact with the question, comments, the definitions of 'it', holes with color interaction, collage and the mice." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)