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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1476 Collections and/or Records:

The Gloved Hand or Ladies' What-Not / Butler, Frances., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-22969-23406
Scope and Contents

One copy has a maroon paper cover, the other copy a gray paper cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Great Orange Shapes Special Ishu #11 / Depew, Wally., 1972

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Identifier: CC-53090-74236
Scope and Contents

Some pages have an orange or blue painted watercolor background. The blank facing page has a bleed through image from the preceding page and is counted as a page according to the recommendation of Wally Depew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

The Great Orange Shapes Special Issue #11 [maquette] / Depew, Wally., 1970

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Identifier: CC-53091-74237
Scope and Contents

The handwriting is on the colophon page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Green, the Red, the Yellow, the Black, and the White, 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-22281-22704
Scope and Contents

The introduction was written by Robert Filliou. Each page depicts a grid of images appropriated from an encylopedia. The images are printed in green except for the loose print that in red. The images are captioned by text in the encyclopedia or text added by the authors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Hat / Chwast, Seymour ; Seastone, Leonard., 2004

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Identifier: CC-49211-70253
Scope and Contents

Chwast provides illustrations of people wearing hats through the ages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

The Heart Of A Humument / Phillips, Tom ; Erskine-Tulloch P., 1985

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Identifier: CC-55595-52530
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding and clamshell case were made by Pella Erskine-Tulloch. The poem on the front cover reads, writing - my thoughts interlacing fold consciousness, and on the back cover the poem reads Words - words! Make me blossum -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Heart Of A Humument / Phillips, Tom ; Erskine-Tulloch P., 1985

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Identifier: CC-55615-9999222
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding and clamshell case were made by Pella Erskine-Tulloch. The poem on the front cover reads, will art - fall on - his words, and on the back cover serious, syllables -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Hospital and Me / Bing, Ilse., 1968

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Identifier: CC-23452-23896
Scope and Contents

Ilse Bing painted the cover. She died in 1998 and her obituary, printed in the NY Times is held by the Sackner Archive. Over her last decade of life, she was rediscovered as an important photographer of the thirties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Infinite Book / Ulrichs, Timm., 1982

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Identifier: CC-52477-73603
Scope and Contents

This book object consists of facing mirrors that give an infinite number of images of an object place in front of it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[The King and Queen Examine the Seed] / Wilson, L.., 1987

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Identifier: CC-41662-43654
Scope and Contents

The two copies of this book differ slightly in the collaged elements placed upon several of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Legalization of Cake / McClurg, John Wayne., 1976

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Identifier: CC-28758-30065
Scope and Contents

This work is an unstructured, illustrated, erotic, tour de force of a novel. The papercard pages made by Mohawk Paper Mills are hinged in two places to enable the accordion construction. In commemts pn the internet, McClurg states tha it took 15 hours to assemble one copy. The covers are thick cardboard. There are 15 pages that have typewritten texts and the remainder are handwritten. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

The Magical World of David Cole / Cole, David ; Allen B., 1984

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Identifier: CC-17397-17762
Scope and Contents

Blair H. Allen edited the artwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Manhattan Telephone Book 1972, 1975

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Identifier: CC-59673-52175
Scope and Contents

Only the right-sided pages are printed and constitute the page count. The titles of the pages are arranged alphabetically. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Nam / Banner, Fiona., 1997

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Identifier: CC-33728-35391
Scope and Contents This text of this book, that was written and designed by Fiona Banner, is printed only on the right sided facing pages. There are no paragraph separations of five, continuous film scripts dealing with battleground episodes of the sixties, Viet Nam war. The cover depicts the title in a psychodelic hot pink color on a bright blue background. The book was published in 800 unsigned, soft cover copies and 200 signed, hard cover copies.Nancy Princenthal writing in Art on Paper Vol.4 No.5, 2000 offers the following description. Banner doesn't generally dispense with punctu-ation altogether, but the headlong flow of language in her work, paced like spoken rather than written language and printed without-paragraph breaks, is most easily made sense of by being read aloud. This is as true of relatively short, single-sheet works like the 1999 "This Is It" (a hand-scripted summary, writ-ten from memory, of the movie "The Deer Hunter") as it is of "The Nam" (London, Frith Street Books with...
Dates: 1997