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Johnston, Alastair, 1950-

 Person

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Ampersand, The. No.3/Sum / Johnston A., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-24570-25023
Scope and Contents

Contains article by Alistair Johnston on gravestones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Geometry & New Math (books about sex) / Beining G ; Beube D ; Johnston A ; Soppe J ; Johanknecht S ; Prez J ; Hannon B., 1996

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Identifier: CC-10632-10841
Scope and Contents

The theme of this exhibition is the relation between the book and sexual practices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Musings on the Vernacular / Johnston, Alastair ; Marinetti FT ; Apollinaire G ; Schwitters K ; Villegle J ; Hains R., 1988

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Identifier: CC-08231-8393
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book is photographic reproductions of textural and pictographic images of shop signs and billboards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Secretum Iter Et Fallentis Semita Vita Volume One / Johnston, Alistair., 1983

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Identifier: CC-49835-70892
Scope and Contents

Each page of this book is cut in an abstract, organic shape so that the sentences are partially revealed from one or more pages depending on where the cuts are made on the page. The typography of each page is divided vertically down the center with italics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Trance & Recalcitrance: The Private Voice in the Public Realm / Poltroon Press ; Butler F ; Johnston A ; Jandl E ; Gysin B ; Ginsberg A ; Hirschman J ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1995

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Identifier: CC-04763-4852
Scope and Contents

Essays by Frances Butler and Alastair Johnston present a historical, personal view of the founding of Poltroon, its philosophy and their artistic journeys during the twenty years of the press, a private voice in the public realm. They mention seeing the exhibition, "The Altered Page" at the Center for Book Arts, NYC consisting of works from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995