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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Rectangles Volume One / Crozier, Robin., 1978

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Identifier: CC-19641-20027
Scope and Contents

All the images relate to the shape of rectangles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Reduced E.A. Poe's The Raven No. o43 / Kocman, J.H.., 1982

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Identifier: CC-59716-10002774
Scope and Contents

Designated JHK/Book No. 099. Kocman states that he has utilized 18 strophes of the poem, each represented as one page in the book by blindstamping "Nevermore" on each page of black-gray handmade paper. A Strope is any separate section or extended movement in a poem, distinguished from the stanza in that it does not follow a regularly repeated pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Reduced E.A. Poe's The Raven No.o99 / Kocman, J.H.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-07916-8070
Scope and Contents

Designated JHK/Book No. 099. Kocman states that he has utilized 18 strophes of the poem, each represented as one page in the book by blindstamping "Nevermore" on each page of black-gray handmade paper. A Strope is any separate section or extended movement in a poem, distinguished from the stanza in that it does not follow a regularly repeated pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Referendum / Backer, Heimrad., 1988

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Identifier: CC-21960-22372
Scope and Contents The book consists of photographs and poems dealing mostly with negative feelings related to the title. The five loose photographs in this limited edition of five copies (size of trade edition unspecified) also appear in the book.Goodreadss review: Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Backer presents quotations from the Holocaust s planners, perpetrators, and victims. The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. Backer s sources range from victims letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous. transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not unspeakable, but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands...
Dates: 1988

Reliquary for the Book / Eller, Evelyn., 1996

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Identifier: CC-38411-40316
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book is to question whether the book is obsolete because of the information super highway and computer systems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Remember! / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08969-9145
Scope and Contents

Poem relates the holocaust to the plight of the homeless. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Respiratory Book / Poznanovic, Bogdanka., 1978

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Identifier: CC-04162-4241
Scope and Contents All pages, except one which contains a chest roentgenogram, are translucent. The book must be held up to light for visualization of the chest just as physicians review them.Bogdanka Poznanović was born in Begeč in June, 1930. In 1956 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Though she studied painting under the supervision of the modernist painter Milo Milunović, she pursued cultural practices that criticized and transcended both socialist realism and socialist modernism, and became one of the founders and collaborators of the radical program agenda of the Youth Forum Cultural Center in Novi Sad. Her own artistic work was formed within a spectrum between modernist painting close to abstraction and modern graphic design. Her explorations of enformel developed towards post-painting practices: visual poetry, conceptual art, new artistic practice, explorations of communication and new media, especially video art. Later, her artistic work led her away from "creating...
Dates: 1978

Rest 1 Rest 2, 1972

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Identifier: CC-28285-29460
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book which is in part a facsimile of the artist's sketch book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Retell the Tale, 1997

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Identifier: CC-27844-28977
Scope and Contents

Laxson writes that the "title is inspired by D.H. Lawrence who said - Don't trust the artist. Trust the tale." And the tale is written by Laxson in brilliant twists, turns, shapes of typography and drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Review of Frederico Busnari/Cozette de Charmoy: Permanent Blue Light / Grey, Rodney; deCharmoy C; Busonero F., 1995

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Identifier: CC-34335-36030
Scope and Contents

This is a critical review of the artist book of undersea photographs by Busonero with the poetic collaboration by de Charmoy; the work is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Revolutionstrilogie: Das Freiheitsabce; Experiment Freiheit; Freiheitskanon / Fahrner, Barbara ; Sdun D ; Satie E., 1989

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Identifier: CC-59820-10002870
Scope and Contents

Printed by Dieter Sdun. The text was taken from Erik Satie and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Revolutionstrilogie: Freiheitskanon / Fahrner, Barbara ; Sdun D ; Satie E., 1989

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Identifier: CC-59818-10002871
Scope and Contents

Printed by Dieter Sdun. The text was taken from Erik Satie and Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. This is one of the three books with the same overall title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Revue de Meteo & de Poesie: Y Y Neige Pleut. No.1 / Fabienne Yvert., 1986

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Identifier: CC-29344-30706
Scope and Contents

The theme of this periodical is poetry and weather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

River Rocks & Foliage / Andrew Norris., 1991

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Identifier: CC-05569-5676
Scope and Contents

The hexagonal poem object can be turned and pulled to change the configuration of the text and image panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991