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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1476 Collections and/or Records:

The Book of i's / Castillejo, Jose Luis., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-16805-17160
Scope and Contents

The book consists of the printed letter "i" - one centered on most of each page, with some pages being blank. Castillejo belonged to the Zaj group, a movement in Spain with the philosophy of Fluxus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Book of Slab / Form, Joseph ; Space, Frederick ; Lyssiotis, Peter., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11461-11677
Scope and Contents

The cover has a cut-out the shape of Australia. The author of this artist book is actually Peter Lyssiotis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Boy and The Bird, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-40880-42857
Scope and Contents

The text is by Emmett Williams and the illustrations are by Tom Wasmuth. Each page contains four lines of poetry. The upper right corner of each page is filled with black step-like forms. As the poem becomes more complex, the black areas grow larger black areas that gradually recede altogether from the page. The poems in turn also become simpler in form. The note in the back of the book states that "the cover illustrates the intention of the artist...to realize this intention the reader may cut out the black area of each page and remove the cover photograph." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Boy and The Bird, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-40866-42843
Scope and Contents

The text is by Emmett Williams and the illustrations are by Tom Wasmuth. Each page contains four lines of poetry. The upper right corner of each page is filled with black step-like forms. As the poem becomes more complex, the black areas grow larger black areas that gradually recede altogether from the page. The poems in turn also become simpler in form. The note in the back of the book states that "the cover illustrates the intention of the artist...to realize this intention the reader may cut out the black area of each page and remove the cover photograph." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Brain of the Monster / Seille, Genevieve., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-02633-2676
Scope and Contents

The cover has calligraphic text by Seille. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Day of the Rope / Kevin Hamilton., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09224-9405
Scope and Contents

Text deals with discrimination of civil rights. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Destruction of Mindfuck Diplomacy, 1990

 Item — Box 256: [Barcode: 31858072458254]
Identifier: CC-26089-26551
Scope and Contents

The soft cover book has a smaller book bound into the back cover. The book and tape are housed in an envelope which is attached to and folded into the poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Disposable History Of The World, 1986

 Item — Box 207: [Barcode: 31858072460136]
Identifier: CC-51380-72472
Scope and Contents

The loose sheets are randomly cut from newspapers in different languages that are published for the most part in New York City. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The End of Words, Selected Works, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-07817-7970
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding was done by Jane Rollo. Each copy is virtually unique since collages were made adhering a limited number of the defective printed pages onto the pagea of the printed book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: Botanische Werke: Distelsamen. No.34 / Herman de Vries., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-27505-28558
Scope and Contents

Transparent plastic envelopes containing specimens of plant seeds with filaments to disseminate them through the air are affixed to the pages of this artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: Das Zeichnerische Spatwerk von Immanuel Kant. No.35-36 / Harmut Geerken., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-27506-28560
Scope and Contents

This book is designed such that a printed caption precedes an image printed on translucent paper adapted from Kant's sketchbook. Some of these images involve mathematical equations adjacent to geometric shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: Tashengewitter (Pocket Storm). No.31 / Geoffrey Hendricks., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-27709-28806
Scope and Contents

The two pages that have been unfolded from a tissue for sneezing might be a metaphor for the Iraqi Desert Storm military campaign. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Fourth Dimension / Hung, Berwyn., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27503-28555
Scope and Contents

The text reads, "We are the prisoners of our own creation" and the accompanying images are wrist watches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996