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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Quince Montagnes / Marianne Monchouguy., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-59311-54305
Scope and Contents

The image depicts details of a mountain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Quince Montagnes / Marianne Monchouguy., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-59311-54305
Scope and Contents

The image depicts details of a mountain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

r: i, p. (Reason: Independence, Privacy.) / Golden, Alisa., 1983

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Identifier: CC-32752-34341
Scope and Contents

This is the fisrst book issued by the press. The front cover is perorated so that only the word "privacy" is seen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Rand Notiz, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-58032-59272
Scope and Contents

Hartmann drew a single vertical column of hieroglyphics on the outger edge of each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Raw Truth: Books by Correspondence / Humphries, Derek; Bicknell, Leslie., 1987

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Identifier: CC-52667-73803
Scope and Contents

The names of the artists and the press are not disclosed in this work, viz., Derek is typed in a poem in folder 6, D. M. Humphries appears on a printed fragment of a check in folder 9 but Leslie Bicknell is not cited. The folders are numbered 0 to10. The theme of this book is how to achieve a successful career as an artist. On the verso of each folder is a single typed collaged word fragment that reads start, truth, history, good, [blank]. sincerety, luck, search, break, money, and hope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Read and Book, 1998

 Item — Box 203: [Barcode: 31858072460102]
Identifier: CC-31768-33282
Scope and Contents

"Read" lists 18 definitions of the word "read," and "Book" lists seven definitions of the word "book" and combinations and phrases incorporating the word "book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Reading / Luckam, Lawrence., 1978

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Identifier: CC-07596-7741
Scope and Contents

Because of the locations of the perforations, paging through this book gives different meanings as new words appear from old letters and new ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Reciprocal Encoding Decoding Construction / Barnett, Peter., 1981 - 1983

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Identifier: CC-22545-22970
Scope and Contents Book has opposite spiral spines so that pages interleave.Peter H. Barnett: Reciprocal Encoding-Decoding Construction (hand drawn numbered limited edition, 1981-1983) is made of two spiral-bound sketch pads bonded together and cut down to 14" square. The result is a book with bindings on either side and a stiffened middle. There are 12 pages attached to each binding. The principal graphic element, which supports the textual elements, is a sequence of triangular cutouts within circles. The cut-out pages mesh together on either side of the core, and texts written across the edges of the cutouts become legible in sequence as the pages are meshed. As the pages mesh and the designs and texts on one side of the book become legible, the designs and texts on the other side are decomposed. The meshing and unmeshing of pages by the interactive reader, together with the composition and decomposition of design and text, articulates the title Reciprocal Encoding Decoding Construction ,...
Dates: 1981 - 1983

Recit d'l Voyage jas si imaginare que ca / Yzert, Fabian., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-00119-123
Scope and Contents

In same slipcase as Fabian Yzert's book "Une Semaine Pale Pitante". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Recit-Gît (Edition Parallele), 1989

 Item — Box 121: [Barcode: 31858072458072]
Scope and Contents

This edition of the object is described as parallel to the original (designed as wood slabes in a wooden case).

Dates: 1989