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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1516 Collections and/or Records:

Book 29: Tangerine Penetration / Depew, Wally., 1971

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Identifier: CC-51129-72214
Scope and Contents

The first page has a thick red ink stain in its center has been repetitively perforated through the center with a thin sharp instrument like an straight pin such the subsequent pages carry the red ink to a decreasing amount until blank pages just show dimpling. There is no text except for the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Book Bag / Cairns, Phyllis., 1987

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Identifier: CC-19150-19529
Scope and Contents

Booklet has blank pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

book for documentation of pure experiences / Kocman, J.H.., 1971

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Identifier: CC-59395-56763
Scope and Contents

Al the pages with the exception of the cover are blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Book Of Doom / Clifton Meador; P Zimmerman., 1984

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Identifier: CC-60628-54167
Scope and Contents Vamp & Tramp: Stated edition of 50 (35 actual). 10.5" x 14" closed, 18" x 25" when fully opened. Hand-cut stencils. Pin-registered spray enamel paint on Rives BFK paper. Bound by Philip Zimmermann with an accordion spine strip. Housed in a custom spray-painted clamshell box. Phil Zimmermann: "Spaceheater Editions published Clifton Meador's BOOK OF DOOM during the summer of 1984, in Rhinebeck, NY, USA. Clif used multiple pin-registered hand-cut stencils to spray enamel paint onto Rives BFK paper. The edition was to have been 50 but only 35 were made. Clif did all of the spraying. [I] made most of the boxes and did all of the bindery work. "Clif's text and images tell a tale of an end-of-millennial apocalyptic journey into the depths of hell. When the pages are flipped over at the end of the book, it forms a downward spiral that is very reminiscent of the circles of Dante's Inferno. "Clifton Meador writes: 'The initial impetus for this book was to complicate the experience of...
Dates: 1984

Book Of Doom / Clifton Meador; P Zimmerman., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-60628-54167
Scope and Contents Vamp & Tramp: Stated edition of 50 (35 actual). 10.5" x 14" closed, 18" x 25" when fully opened. Hand-cut stencils. Pin-registered spray enamel paint on Rives BFK paper. Bound by Philip Zimmermann with an accordion spine strip. Housed in a custom spray-painted clamshell box. Phil Zimmermann: "Spaceheater Editions published Clifton Meador's BOOK OF DOOM during the summer of 1984, in Rhinebeck, NY, USA. Clif used multiple pin-registered hand-cut stencils to spray enamel paint onto Rives BFK paper. The edition was to have been 50 but only 35 were made. Clif did all of the spraying. [I] made most of the boxes and did all of the bindery work. "Clif's text and images tell a tale of an end-of-millennial apocalyptic journey into the depths of hell. When the pages are flipped over at the end of the book, it forms a downward spiral that is very reminiscent of the circles of Dante's Inferno. "Clifton Meador writes: 'The initial impetus for this book was to complicate the experience of...
Dates: 1984

Book of Eros / Diacono, Mario., 1972

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Identifier: CC-15382-15706
Scope and Contents

Consists of Italian titles centered on two of the pages, "White Vagina" (printed in black ink) that denotes two white, blank pages and "Inscribed Vagina" (printed in white ink) hat denotes two black, blank pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Book of the Dead / Depew, Wally ; Young K., 1990

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Identifier: CC-15109-15427
Scope and Contents

The pages were photocopied from a rubberstamped text. This book was dedicated to Karl Young. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Book One / Conner, Bruce., 1970

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Identifier: CC-20255-20652
Scope and Contents

The high density of the markings of the images is similar to the early work created by El Hanani, also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Book Toy Cube / Smith, Esther K. ; Faust, Dikko., 1995

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Identifier: CC-28899-30225
Scope and Contents

This book with an unusual construction has the following directions printed on its wrappers, "Opens 4 ways by quarter-year - Turn book so 1995 faces up - Find your month by number - open that side to your month. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Book / Tuttle, Richard., 1974

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Identifier: CC-29895-31282
Scope and Contents

Each page has a single letter of the alphabet printed on grey colored paper stock. The caption, "Artists' books exhibition Arts Council," is rubberstamped on the inside back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Books, Paintings and Memorabilia / Broaddus, John-Eric ; Sackner MA., 1990

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Identifier: CC-22503-22928
Scope and Contents

The essay by Marvin Sackner in the catalogue has been altered in the style of Broaddus' work. The Catalogue itself is presented as an Artist Book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Bounce Poem / Depew, Wally ; Wagner Dr., 1970

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Identifier: CC-15113-15431
Scope and Contents

The images originating from woodblock prints depict a tennis ball bouncing against a tennis racquet as viewed in profile. This book was printed by D.r. Wagner and was also designated as Runcible Spoon Cretin concrete poetry series #1. Stored in the Wally Depew box of publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Box of Growth, 1999

 Item — Box 150: [Barcode: 31858072458031]
Identifier: CC-34487-36184
Scope and Contents

Esther K Smith was the art director and Dikko Faust did the letterpress and typography for this bookwork by Happersett. The colophon states that "This series of mathematical drawings is based on growth and decay patterns of twigs and the Fibonacci sequence," The books are entitled, "Twig," "Leaf," "Conch," "Bloeman" and "Sprout." Each page of the books is made with additional calligraphic strokes using a progressive Fibonacci sequence page by page to connote the natural history of growth of the plants mentioned in the titles.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Bozobook / Firesign Theatre, The., 1981

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Identifier: CC-12243-12467
Scope and Contents

The Firesign Theatre broadcasted on KPFP FM, Los Angeles from 1970-1971. The group consisted of Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, and Philip Procter. The centerfold is a photocopied page from a radio script. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Brache di Gutenberg, Le: Cronaca: No Words (Deluxe Edition). No.31 / Irma Blank., 1994

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Identifier: CC-24052-24502
Scope and Contents

The text is "Everybody's Autobiography" by Gertrude Stein. Each facing page is replicated in cancelled, abstract calligraphic markings by Blank. An original cancelled drawing is included of page 153. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994