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Contains statement by the artists on the definition of an Artist Book. This catalogue provides documentation of the artist's activities often accompanied by photographic reproductions. The quirky binding of this book, which in itself might be classified as an artist's book, make access to the pages difficult and time-consuming and therefore not a easily readable reference text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue is a yellow, plastic suit case which contains dried grass behind the transparent plastic sheet that lists exhibitions and works for sale by Merz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds Broodthaers' "Un Coup De Des Jamais N'Abolire Le Hasard (Image)" and "Charles Baudelaire: Je Hais Le Mouvement Qui Deplace Les Lignes," reproduced in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Doris Boris was an Austrian pop singer who moved to San Francisco to assume a neo-expressionist painterly career. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 50, plate 44, depicts Wingbook, an artist book in edition of 12 that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Baroni contributes an extensive essay on the artist book. The twig and card in the bag were done by Remy Penard (18/50). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The background depicts Cattania's drawing, Yantra. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Documents the artist book, "Wingbook" that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The letter from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books offers a notebook by Charles Crumb to Marvin Sackner. The covers and eight pages are reproduced as photocopied colored sheets. These depict obsessive dense, linear calligraphic markings as well as scattered cartoon-like head portraits. Unfortunately, the book was sold prior to the Sackners offer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is the last from John Crombie and Kickshaws because of "waning stamina and resources... The book is a stream of type carrying its cargo of verbal flotsam past occasional islands, meandering between the figure-incrusted embankments." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Clive Phillpot asked 23 collectors of artist books in addition to himself to select mass produced, inexpensive artists' books from 1950 onward to the present for this exhibition. He also asked each to write an essay explaining his choices. Each of the collectors is listed under contributors. Books by Dieter Roth, Tom Phillips and Ulises Carrion were the most popular cited by the collectors. Sackner's essay follows. When I received the request from Clive Phillpot to provide a list of artists' books - inexpensive books authored by artists that utilize mass-production printing technology - with examples from 1950 to date, I thought that the task would be simple. I would search my database under the classification Artist Book and be finished in a few hours. Here I am one week later writing the essay on the artists' books that I selected from our collection. This is because our database has a single entry for artists' books that includes one of a kind to press runs of thousands. I had...