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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

Comeundone, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-15924-16257

Cortado por la Misma Tijera, 1977

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-31007-32466

Cromanzo, 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-15421-15745
Scope and Contents

The colors appear so vibrant that it seems that the images were drawn rather than printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Der Bücherwächter, 1993

 Item — Box 128: [Barcode: 31858072458304]
Identifier: CC-01498-1531
Scope and Contents

The theme of this work is the poet, Jorge Luis Borges. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Écriture sur le Mur, 1987

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-27498-28548
Scope and Contents

Twenty copies of the examples de tete were bound by Knoderer - the Sackner Archive copy is one of these copies. The illustrations by Pageris are semi-realistic, line drawings with a background of black watercolored abstract markings. The bookbinding has sample strips of tooled and painted leather laid into a bimorphic shape whose silhouette has features resembling the side of the human face. The binding is much larger than the booklet which is conventionally shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Electric Samara Lightbook / And, Miekal., 1981

 Item — Box 315: [Barcode: 31858072490836]
Identifier: CC-27155-27630
Scope and Contents

The font of the letters on the pages has been taken from game of Scrabble. The cover is labeled in crayon as Silkscreen by Miekel And. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Ex Libris, 1991

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-14640-14953
Scope and Contents

This book also served as documentation for an exhibition at Galerie Sophienstrasse 8, Berlin, Sep-Oct, 1991. It includes sketches for book object-sculptures. The cover was made by Deisler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Firecracker: All Books Are Meant to Be Read, 1994

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-09784-9978
Scope and Contents

A small soft cover book is wrapped in papers which include the text above and "Non-Archival Book Instructions: Light Fuse and Get Away." With the exposed string on top, this book object resembles a fire cracker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Flat Out, 1990

 Item — Box 119: [Barcode: 31858072460813]
Identifier: CC-05374-5477
Scope and Contents

Words and images printed in phosphorescent ink glow in the dark with the ultraviolet lamp. The story relates to the falling of the sky from hydrocarbon to waste. The earth is burned and most of the people channel up through the jagged holes. Bucko, a dyslexic nomad, one of the few people left, comes out at night and collects part of the sky. He hopes to recreate what once was. The pages spiral out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

flip-movie dance alphabet peepshow toy enigma boring book, 1971

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-59065-66043
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Richard Hell (born Richard Lester Meyers) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer. Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has credited Hell as a source of inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude, as well as the safety-pin and graphics accessorized clothing that McLaren sold in his London shop, Sex.[2] Hell was in several important, early punk bands, including Neon Boys, Television, and The Heartbreakers, after which he formed Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Their 1977 album, Blank Generation, influenced many other punk bands. Its title song was named "One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock" by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing[3] and is ranked as one of the all-time top-ten punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as...
Dates: 1971

Gina Lotta Post, 1986

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-46842-49576
Scope and Contents

According to Lloyd, "GINA LOTTA POST is an artist stamp post evolved out of the correspondence art activities of Ginny Lloyd. Founded in 1978, there have been both several one-of-a-kind stamps and multiple edition issues. Headquartered in San Francisco, where most of the editions are published, several GINA LOTTA POST editions have been published elsewhere: Budapest, Munich, Poland, Amsterdam, Cleveland and New York.Various mediums are used in the creation of the stamps: photographs, computer graphics, collage, rubber stamps, etc. the stamps are intended to be used to illuminate mailings as will as to be displayed as prints.GINA LOTTA POST is an artist book containing stamp issues that have not been published previously, as well as, reproductions from published editions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986