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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1516 Collections and/or Records:

Before Language Beyond Language / Cole, David ; Rosenberg, Marilyn., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-17802-18172
Scope and Contents

This work by the collaborators Cole and Rosenberg is described by them as ideo(litera)grams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Being the Record of a Collaboration / Cole, David ; Laxson, Ruth., 1989

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Identifier: CC-17424-17789
Scope and Contents

Each page records four progressively finished images, the result of one or the other artist adding to the original drawing his/her marks through a solely artist correspondence back and forth between the two. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Beneath the Ruins / Zellen, Jody., 1996

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Identifier: CC-34234-35922
Scope and Contents

The text is based upon Maurice Blanchot's "The Writing of the Disaster." the Sackner Archive also holds another copy of slightly larger dimensions that has photocopied pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Benoit, 1984

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Identifier: CC-04686-4774
Scope and Contents

Paris employs a different, experimental, calligraphic style for the text on each page facing an illustration. The book deals with the printer, PA Benoit. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Beschriebene Blatter / Ulrichs, Timm., 1967

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Identifier: CC-35597-37341
Scope and Contents

Probably all copies are numbered '1'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Beware of Poets Bearing Dreams! / Dellafiora, David., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49523-70569
Scope and Contents

The pages depict grainy photographic reproductions of frontal portraits of different men rearranged from horizontal cuttings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Big Skies and Little Stones / Adler, Jeremy ; Schmidt W., 1987

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Identifier: CC-58308-10001540
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts clusters of small colored circles and Wolfgang Schmidt did the printing. The book of 100 copies is out of print and not held byh the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Bilderspiegel / Schauffelen, Konrad Balder ; Kolar, Jiri., 1966

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Identifier: CC-49055-70093
Scope and Contents

In this book which is also designated as Tangenten No.4, a small square of mirror is set in stamped out thin card pages. One glassine page overlays it with a printed magic square poem. Parts of the backing of the mirror have been scatched out by the artist and it has been glued down to the card. Poetry has been printed on the pages with the stamped out sections. This book was edited by Walter Aue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Black hat at the end of the bar / Khu-En-Oho\aka d.a. levy ; The Dragon Lady Mara\aka Mara ; Davis J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-59874-10002930
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right sid e of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Black hat at the end of the bar / Khu-En-Oho\aka d.a. levy ; The Dragon Lady Mara\aka Mara ; Davis J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42950-44994
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right side of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Black Holes / Neaderland, Louise Odes., 1997

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Identifier: CC-59554-10002631
Scope and Contents

The construction of this book is such that each page contains a pop-up version of a black hole with black and white background and typography. At the top of each page is the continuing phrase "The searach for the invisible requires sustained obsession." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Black Rectangle], 1973

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Identifier: CC-25597-26055

Blends / Strangulensis, Ficus., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28432-29696
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a handwritten column of words or wordlike forms which shows progressive alteration from a primary word to a new one or an image. Examples include among others 1) young - void, 2) falls - mist, 3) ripe - shoe, 4) seed - image of a tree. This has been termed "transmorfation" by Ficus Strangulensis and has also been utilized by other poets, notably Crag Hill, jw curry, and Geof Huth. The transmorfations are composed in a computer and laser printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996