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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1476 Collections and/or Records:

Parahereges / Ferrari, Leon., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-11314-11530
Scope and Contents

This book consists of reproductions of collages that juxtapose Christian religious with Hindu and Japanese erotic images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Parentheses / Cinicolo 3, Donato., 1970

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Identifier: CC-17283-17644
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a typing made solely using the parentheses keys. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Parentheses / Cinicolo 3, Donato., 1970

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Identifier: CC-17284-17645
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a typing made solely using the parentheses keys. This book was printed at the Watford School of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Partition V / Heidsieck, Bernard ; Franken, Ruth., 1973

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Identifier: CC-53896-58151
Scope and Contents

This work was designed by Ruth Franken (1924, Prague -- 12 September 2006, Paris) who was a Czech-American sculptor, painter, and furniture designer who was mostly active in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Parvenze d'Ombra / Caruso, Luciano ; Varroni, Piero., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34545-36244
Scope and Contents

The painted cover is by Piero Varroni who also collaborated with Luciano Caruso on the visual poem. This four page accordion visual poem consists of calligraphic text and markings by Caruso over a abstract brown and gold painting by Varroni. The collage elements consist of six small, torn white papers onto which Caruso has written text. The colophon indicates that one copy of this book was reserved for the National Central Library of Florence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Peiload / Echevarria Myers, Jo-Anne., 1989

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Identifier: CC-14274-14582
Scope and Contents

All text and image is related to I.M. Pei's pyramid designed as a center entrance for the Louvre. The author creates new words using "pei" (pronouced pay) combined with triangular shapes on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Performance Art / Franklin Furnace ; Weiner L., 1988 - 1989

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Identifier: CC-11801-12020
Scope and Contents

The inside cover is rubberstamped, "Structure of Lawrence Weiner." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988 - 1989

Persephone: Die Zierlichte Todesgottin Ein Marchen, 1995

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Identifier: CC-10642-10851
Scope and Contents

Theme is the birth and death of Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter who is the personification of spring; hence the use of flowers in the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Perspectives / Stetser, Carol., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29749-31126
Scope and Contents

The artist copied perspective drawings from a Dover (press) publication and added language texts, letters and images to the reprinted pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Perun. Zum Farbklang von Sprache; Homage a Chlebnikov / Ebel, Gerhild; Khlebnikov V., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28808-30123
Scope and Contents

Ebel collaged varied colored paper discs over selected letters of Khlebnikov's poems to give a meaning of the word with color in an analogous manner to Khlebnikov use of sounds with words (Zaum). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Philacentrik / Filreis A., 2006

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Identifier: CC-47198-49941
Scope and Contents

This book showcases the integration of writing, printmaking and design at the press. It focuses on the special features of Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Philoontosophy - Gazaliel, 1987

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Identifier: CC-46995-49733
Scope and Contents

Elizaberth Was uses her abbrevikated name in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Photogenics / Colo, Papo; Ingberman J., 1983

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Identifier: CC-18328-18700
Scope and Contents

The work consists of two sections: Photopoems 1979 and Acting As Behavior 1982. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Phrenodiae Quinque de coitu mirabili / Villa, Emilio ; Costa, Corrado., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50211-71276
Scope and Contents This book consists of Villa's written texts and mathematical equations and Costa's surrealistic-like images of humanoid figures and abstract images engaged in coitus. Internet: Emilio Villa passed away on 14th January 2003. He had been born at Affori, near Milan in 1914. He spent his life in Milan, Florence, Sao Paolo (Brazil) and most of all in Rome, engaging in studies of Semitic - he was an exile from the Vatican Institute of Biblical Studies -- and early Greek philology and working actively with avant-garde artists both Italian and foreign. He carried out a remarkable prose translation of the Odyssey (1964) and he also translated some cuneiform tablets of the Accadic poem "Enuma Eli" (1939). Moreover he carried out a long labour of interpretation of some passages of the Bible, of the Pentateuch in particular. He contributed to several cultural reviews, such as "Frontispizio", "Letteratura", "Arti visive" (1953-56), to avant-garde magazines, such as "Ex" (1961-65) and...
Dates: 1971

Phrenodiae Quinque de coitu mirabili / Villa, Emilio ; Costa, Corrado., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50214-71279
Scope and Contents

This book consists of Villa's written texts and mathematical equations and Costa's surrealistic-like images of humanoid figures and abstract images engaged in coitus. Although a label on the inside back cover calls for 200 copies signed by the authors, this copy is unsigned. Another copy of this book held by the Sackner Archive is signed by Villa and Costa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971