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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 234 Collections and/or Records:

Spend Me, 2000

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-35322-37056
Scope and Contents

The two loose sheets describe undesirable side-effects of capitalism and a site list of watchdogs and gadflies. The currency consists of five photocopied 20 dollar bills, realistically reproduced on the recto and containing environmentally incorrect sites on the verso, e.g., Mexico strip mining, Rewanda genocide, Burma forced labor, Brazil deforestation, and Los Angeles toxic ghettos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Stamps-Book [History & Memory], 1990

 Item — Box unknown: [Barcode: 31858073143665]
Identifier: CC-14663-14976

Stamps-Book [History & Memory], 1990

 Item — Box unknown: [Barcode: 31858073143665]
Identifier: CC-14664-14977

Strange Grey Town, 1966

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-26581-27050
Scope and Contents

The title page states "(concrete poem project for daLevy & the poets of cleveland)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Strange Things Begin To Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert, 2001

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-37024-38864
Scope and Contents

The pages are printed in grey ink with half of the vertical page with a different font printed upside down. The left side of the page is a Basinski poem and the right side a Basinski story. Abstract forms and illustrations are interspersed on the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Strange Things Begin To Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert, 2001

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-48716-69748
Scope and Contents

The pages are printed in grey ink with half of the vertical page with a different font printed upside down. The left side of the page is a Basinski poem and the right side a Basinski story. Abstract forms and illustrations are interspersed on the pages. The Sackner Archive also holds a deluxe copy of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Sunflower Power: Performance Poem for Porto2001, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-42923-44966
Scope and Contents

This work was featured in an exhibition curated by Fernando Aguiar, "Imaginaros Da Ruptura = Poeticas Visualis" held in Douro e Vale do Coa, Portugal. The surfaces of the prints in this book are on glossy paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

SurVeils, 1996

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-34670-36371
Scope and Contents

The author indicated that the "book" is a translucent envelope containing six "certificates" with texts addressing: Surveillance & Knowledge, Surveillance & Purity, Surveillance & Reciprocity, Surveillance & Glamour, and Surveillance & Absurdity. In between the certificates are the SurVeils - masks of onionskin paper with different life-sized images of closed eyes with little eye-holes: To hide your open eyes and aid in "surveilling your surveillors." To reinforce the deception, at the bottom of each veil is rubberstamped "my eyes are closed." Adhesive dots can be attached to the eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Swarms, 2010

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-51532-72630
Scope and Contents

The images in this book are letraset collages; the fold-out depicts the "untitled" letraset collage in the collection of the Sackner Archive. The loose sheet is an Beaulieu's explanation as to why he prefers letraset and typing to computer generated art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Teatro Visivo, 1966

 Item — Box 611: [Barcode: 31858072460854]
Identifier: CC-37152-38995
Scope and Contents

The illustrations depict visual poetic collages made by Ori early on; many are framed by a drawing of a stage. Luciano Ori was born in Florence in 1928. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Terror, Terror, 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-16694-17049
Scope and Contents

Book was printed from black & white photographs (rigidly planned) of poems that had already been made with wood block type. Further comments on this book can be found in Campbell's exhibition catalogue at the Yale Center for British Art (held by the Sackner Archive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

The Ballerina, 1984

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-19334-19717
Scope and Contents

This book object has the shape of a headless ballerina. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Brain of the Monster, 1989

 Item — Box 620: [Barcode: 31858072461076]
Identifier: CC-02633-2676
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1989

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