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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

Quince Montagnes / Marianne Monchouguy., 1987

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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

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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

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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