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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

Hazardous To Your Health, 1985

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-17395-17760
Scope and Contents

Cards shaped in the form of a filtered tip cigarette are printed in 43 languages (one to each card) with the message "No Smoking." The box has the shape of a cigarette box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

It Comes in a Plain Brown Wrapper, 1983

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-18096-18468
Scope and Contents

This is a book of visual/verbal erotica done in a cartoon style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

January - Diary, 1991

 Item — Box 62: [Barcode: 31858072538535]
Identifier: CC-05067-5166
Scope and Contents

Several prints and collages have been signed by Olbrich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

La Femme Électrique, 1988

 Item — Box 304: [Barcode: 31858072460946]
Identifier: CC-27420-28465
Scope and Contents The text and two drawings of this book were done by Pagiras, the book binding by Knoderer. The title of the book is The Electric Woman: A Little Erotic Tale. Tac. Tic. Tac...Electric woman, With a magnetic smile, Positively your Sssshhhhhhtttttt. Her third resonant eye, Luminous energy, Of electrodes, Fffffhhhhhtttttt. Caustic envelope, At the primary source, Of electronic bosoms, Phphphhhhhtttttt. Electric woman, Your negatively, Sssshhhhhhttttt. At the sundial disc, Stubborn, At the luminous oblivion, Of a dazzling logic, Ffffhhhhhhtttttt. Endothermic nudity, Chemically prisoner, Of a cathode tube, Phphphhhhhtttttt. Put me in gear, With the luminous needles, Of your electroacoustic awakening.Tic. Tac. Tic. Tac...This poem suggests that the woman in this poem has a great deal of inner electric energy which wants to be fleshed into the open. It compliments the sculpture of Miller Levy's "L'homme La femme" in which man is represented by a single on-off switch and woman by a plethora...
Dates: 1988

La Maronne/Ronde Brève, 1996

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-27532-28598
Scope and Contents

The poem object consist of two silkscreened prints depicting experimental music scores wrapped several times around a stiff printed card. The folders insert within a bent open plexiglas frame; the abstract plaster sculpture is sited on the forward bend of the plexiglas frame. The plastic circular poem object with white painted handwriting is mounted on an opened folder on the back of the book object. The sound poem was recorded on the tape casette by Serge Pey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Lames, 1992

 Item — Box 185: [Barcode: 31858072459559]
Identifier: CC-00860-879

Lettrisme et Hypergraphie, Commemorative de L'esposition, 1964

 Item — Box 619: [Barcode: 31858072461043]
Identifier: CC-29198-30550
Scope and Contents

Each internal page of the leaflet has a single, hand painted, artist stamp collaged onto it. The work was done concurrent to an exhibition "Lettrisme & Hypergraphie" held at the Galerie Stadler in 1964; the Sackner Archive holds the ordinary and deluxe edition of this catalogue. According to Frederic Acquaviva, all of the drawings were done by Jacques Spacagna including the forging of signatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

L'Homme de Parole, 1997

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-34475-36172
Scope and Contents

The book represents a man's body with a white, plastic spiral spine, a face and hair made of cut, smaller spiral spine material, a heart shaped heart printed with "je t'aime," and appropriately shaped booklets for the arms, abdomen, legs and penis. Crombie wrote the Sackners that these book objects were too difficult to transport and make so that none of the editions were completed as stated in the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Livre, 1974

 Item — Box 291: [Barcode: 31858072460706]
Identifier: CC-22971-23408
Scope and Contents

The work consists of an artist book and a cardboard, constructivistic relief. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Logical Book, 1968

 Item — Box 284: [Barcode: 31858073143426]
Identifier: CC-60162-54096
Scope and Contents

This book is not listed in the Wikipedia bibliography of the press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Date originally recorded as 1975.

Dates: 1968

Obscene Jesters, 2010

 Item — Box 170: [Barcode: 31858072458320]
Identifier: CC-51561-72660
Scope and Contents This rubberstamp set was first fabricated in 50 copies in 1979 at PSX headquarters in San Francisco CA. It was exhibited in Rubber Stamp Publications in 1980 in Amsterdam and performed in 2010 at the Stamp Art Museum in Chicago by Keith Buchholz and Picasso Gaglione. According to Darlene Domel, Picasso Gaglione's wife, creation of rubberstamp box sets has continued unabated since the late 1980's. "These box sets pay homage to the famous FLUX POST KIT 7 created by George Maciunas in a limited edition in 1967, but are unique and faithful only to Picasso's personal vision. He produces every set individually. Each box concept develops from some unique idea or a little known fact gleaned from his art research on Dadaists, Fluxists, and contemporary mail artists. It may or may not relate to rubberstamp activity but usually has some element of stamping in it. Some sets pay homage to artists that he admires. Some capture a moment in art history or document the activity of an artist who...
Dates: 2010

On the Slates, 1992

 Item — Box 141: [Barcode: 31858072457942]
Identifier: CC-20083-20477
Scope and Contents

This object was designed by A.S.C. Rower. The loose sheets are wrapped in a roll with a $1.00 bill that is tied with a shoelace. The single sanitized shoe is a container for the false row of money; it was obtained from a Salvation Army distribution center in Poughkeepsie, NY. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992