Artist book (limited edition)
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:
67, 1984
The following text is written one word to a page as follows, T.S. asked me to design a book containing as many pages as my age was. I promised immediately. "When is your birthday," he asked. I told him. "Don't wait too long." I was determined to keep the amount of pages to my present age. So it was no use to try to delay proceedings. I regret not to be any younger, the first time in my life. Sit was a member of the Boekie Woekie artist group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
68-69 /72 (impressado), 1972
100 Coordinates of Violence, 1995
The book is punctured in its center with a hole to simulate that is a round circle that toward the end of the book becomes raged as a simulation of a bullet hole. Each page contains an identical landscape with the bullet hole placed above the horizon. At the bottom of each page are the different coordinates, e.g. 51o 21'N x 12o 25'E, that symbolize the location where violence took place. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
494jul1250012:10 , 2000
1000 Coordinates of Violence, 2001
The book is the editioned version of Maher's original bookwork "100 Coordinates of Violence" which is held by in the Sackner Archive. It was published to coincide with an installation at Kunstbuncker in Nurnberg, Germany. The original book consisted of pages shot through by bullets. Now the 1000 coordinates that symbolize the location where violence took place are listed on each page. An afterward lists several pages of "better informed, better organized and more selflessly dedicated curmudgeons... to fuel your own investigations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Meditation, 1986
The text is taken from The Song of Songs 4:6. The perforations on three of the pages are pairs of Hebrew 'yod's' in a large typeface.' The text is based upon the phrase, "In the heat of the day {life}, God is a protective shadow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Achse Kassel-Bern 2X Provinz, 2000
AEIOU Portfolio: Vowels: A Poem by Arthur Rimbaud , 1978
Aleator, 1989
Heimbach used the first page of a German newspaper and transferred letters from the words on this page to the 24 pages of his book such that in the printed, final form, the words are read through layers in three dimensions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
An Only Kid , 1990
This book dealing with the Passover song, Chad Gadya, was inspired by the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Art is the Universe Admiring Itself, 1983
[Basic Lights], 1994
Each cigarette is printed with the statement "I swear this is absolutely the last cigarette I will ever smoke." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Big Skies and Little Stones, 1987
Each page depicts clusters of small colored circles and Wolfgang Schmidt did the printing. The book of 100 copies is out of print and not held byh the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Bilderspiegel, 1966
In this book which is also designated as Tangenten No.4, a small square of mirror is set in stamped out thin card pages. One glassine page overlays it with a printed magic square poem. Parts of the backing of the mirror have been scatched out by the artist and it has been glued down to the card. Poetry has been printed on the pages with the stamped out sections. This book was edited by Walter Aue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Black (cover), 1966
Khu-En-Oho is another name for d.a. levy -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The booklet is formed from three poems: "Black Hat : At the End of the Bar,"3 American Tanka"/"3 Tanks," and "Egyptian Stroboscope." Though they do not appear in the table of contents, four other shorter poems are mingled throughout: "Iron Cross of the Sun," "SCrape the SKY-rapeR,"Flying Muslim," and "Judgement I."
Black Hat: at the end of the bar, 2004
The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right side of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Black Hat: at the end of the bar, 2004
The cover was designed by the publisher and printer, Jason Davis. This title was first printed by 400 Rabbit Press, Cleveland 1966 in 120 copies. The layout of the poem on the right sid e of the page is reminiscent of ee cummings' style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Box of Growth, 1999
Esther K Smith was the art director and Dikko Faust did the letterpress and typography for this bookwork by Happersett. The colophon states that "This series of mathematical drawings is based on growth and decay patterns of twigs and the Fibonacci sequence," The books are entitled, "Twig," "Leaf," "Conch," "Bloeman" and "Sprout." Each page of the books is made with additional calligraphic strokes using a progressive Fibonacci sequence page by page to connote the natural history of growth of the plants mentioned in the titles.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Claire Jeanine Satin: Sculpture, Bookworks & Related Objects, 1993
The four books making up this exhibition catalog, which in itself can be classified as an artist book, comprise the topics, Sculpture, Artist and Process, Related Objects, and Bookworks. The latter includes Marvin Sackner's critical essay, "Who Says Thirteen Is Unlucky?" The theme of several of the pieces in the exhibition is Satin's adaptation of John Cage, Jasper Johns and Merce Cunningham's collaborative work, "Dancers on a Plane." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
