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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1476 Collections and/or Records:

Le Moyen d'Obtenir une Ame d'Oiseau / Righi, Francois ; Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-29600-30971
Scope and Contents

This book, based upon a fragment of text by Zorastre, has an experimental typographic layout with several interspersed typographic ornaments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Le Photo - Zoo - Aire / Canal, Francoise; Letaillieur F., 1989

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Identifier: CC-19611-19997
Scope and Contents

The photocollages consist of intricately folded or crumpled printed or photograph paper collaged onto color photographs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Lease / Gilbert, Gerry., 1971

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Identifier: CC-49031-70069
Scope and Contents

Unusual format: 3 parts, bound like the letter "W", so that parts one and three open side-by-side, and part two opens on the reverse side, between one and two. Orange cover, each part printed on different coloured paper. Although the book appears to be signed on cover and the card, the handwriting is identical suggesting that the signatures are photoreproduced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Legacy / Stetser, Carol., 2002

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Identifier: CC-46301-49023
Scope and Contents

The card is a personal note to Pat Collins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Les Chimeres / Nerval, Gerard ; Adam, Henri-Georges., 1971

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Identifier: CC-61447-53576
Scope and Contents

Gerald de Nerval was one of the most important French writers in the 19th century both in prose and poetry. This work is a sonnet cycle with a combination of spell, quest and dream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Les Chimeres / Nerval, Gerard ; Adam, Henri-Georges., 1971

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Identifier: CC-61448-10003971
Scope and Contents

Gerald de Nerval was one of the most important French writers in the 19th century both in prose and poetry. This work is a sonnet cycle with a combination of spell, quest and dream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Les Yeux CIII CXXV, 1976

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Identifier: CC-62392-47524
Scope and Contents The silkscreen print was done by Jean Dubuffet and the aquatints by Parant. The latter consist of two prints side by side on folded paper. The Parant prints are composed with small handdrawn 'o's equivalent to eyes. A critique of this book translated from French to English was found on the internet. "And this text enjoys without end, the words are tightened there as the hands are tightened to cherish and embrace the night: the signs are coupled with the collectable one to press the curves of the ground as the touching members link themselves with the reliefs of the darkness to dig the matter and to enjoy in its centre. It is the joy of the closed eyes, the deployment of the fingers in love with the invisible one. The words are tightened there as the eyes are tightened to link one the other and to be linked with the light: the signs are coupled between them and are projected in the fire of the sun as the members indicators amalgamate with the source of the glance so that is born the...
Dates: 1976

less No.12 / Tullett, Barrie ; Glass P., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-57997-10001257
Scope and Contents

This is No.12 in the series 'less - a minimal journal' edited by Julia Johnstone. The images on facing pages consist of squares formed with forward slashes tilted at different angles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Lettera & Risposta / Villa, Emilio ; Cegna, Giorgio., 1971

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Identifier: CC-55531-63541
Scope and Contents

The covers and pages depict black typewriter ribbons that have been typed with seemingly random white letters even though the book is labeled a novel on the front cover. The ribbons are arranged in a variety of non-ordered layouts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971