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The New York launch of this book was held at Andrew Roth Gallery. The press release states that Jonathan Elley and his studio Browns "have forged an enviable reputation in both design and publishing: the book and exhibition...examines the influences that have informed and defined their graphic work. Reproduced are images and objects that have been culled from Ellery's or his colleague's idisosyncratic collections." Lawrence Weiner contributed a poster to the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a well annotated listing of inscribed photography books from a private collection. There is a section that reproduces the inscriptions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This publication was produced as a reference for an exhibition on artist books held at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery. In an introductory essay, Celant analyzes the artist book through the movements of conceptual art, happenings, arte povera, minimal art, and lays particular emphasis on the bookworks of Joseph Kosuth. 6 Decades Books: "Book as Artwork 1960/1972 was the first catalogue devoted to the then new medium of the artist's book and it remains a canonical reference (though one that, due to its scarcity, is not as well known as it should be). This publication started as an article and a list of about 80 artists' books which appeared in 1970 in the first issue of the Italian magazine Arte. Not long after it was translated and published in Interfunktionen. Then in 1972 the Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London mounted an exhibition of artists' books and issued a catalogue with an updated text by Celant and a greatly expanded bibliography (now nearly 300 titles) jointly compiled by...

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The firsr section of this catalogue depicts artist books using photographs borrowed from various sources and the second section depicts artist books based upon photographs in Bibliotecas in Spoleto, Umbria, Modena, Catania and in Art Academies. The opposite dos a dos present book objects and works that resemble books, e.g. paintings, drawings, magazines, etc., followed by a section on visual poetry and small magazines dating from Futurism to the present. Several books and magazines depicted in this exhibition catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "MATRIX is published on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of this groundbreaking contemporary art exhibition series at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. Originally conceived in 1978 as a rotating program of single-artist exhibitions, it continues as a space of active engagement with contemporary art and ideas. MATRIX has presented the work of more than 240 international artists, including Doug Aitken, Michael Asher, Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars, Sophie Calle, Bruce Conner, Brian Eno, Eva Hesse, Robert Irwin, Zoe Leonard, Chris Marker, Julie Mehretu, Shirin Neshat, Adrian Piper, Cindy Sherman and Richard Tuttle. At more than 500 pages, this volume--designed collaboratively with New York's Project Projects--presents the history of UC Berkeley Art Museum's innovative program and includes newly commissioned conversations between some of the most important voices in contemporary art, including Michael Auping, Lawrence Rinder, Jens Hofmann and Jordan Kantor. " --...

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Illustrated or listed in the catalog and held by the Sackner Archive are "Picadilly Square" by Roth, "News Mews, Pews" by Ruscha, "Book" by Samaras, "Girl on a Chair" by Segal, "General Dynamic F.U.N." by Paolozzi and "Andy Warhol's Index Book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was published for an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery and contained one word paintings in varying styles to simulate various materials. Ruscha wrote in the catalogue, "Words have temperatures to me. When they reach a certain point and become hot words, then they appeal to me. 'Synthetic' is a very hot word. Sometimes I have a dream that if a word gets too hot and too appealing, it will boil apart, and I won't be able to read or think of it. Usually I catch them before they get too hot." The word-paintings include among others, "Ripe, Oily, Jelly, City, Mint, Steel and Pool." An interview with Walter Hopps is included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was divided into five parts, Words from the Environment, Words as Sign and Structure, Words as Juxtaposition and Association, Words as Narrative, and Words as Socio-Political Commentary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.