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This paper was presented an the SHARP 2001 Conference. The Sackner Archive is mentioned as providing crucial support to many authors working in the field of book arts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Marvin Sackner reviewed the book and wrote a blurb for the dust jacket. Betty Bright is a co-founder and curator of the Minneapolis Center for Book Arts who was responsible for over 50 exhibitions in a nine year-period. She has written a book on artist books that removes the chaos from the many flavors of this genre. Her analysis is confined almost exclusively to British and American writers and artists. She discusses artist books chronologically based upon the classification of the fine press book, deluxe book, bookwork, sculptural books and hybrids She begins the journey with the books by William Morris of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the late nineteenth century. She mentions that Morris was preoccupied with the design of the book because he believed that such books should not only tell a story but cause the reader to enter into a new world, a remark that seems apropos to the artist book today. Along the way, she cites exhibitions and catalogues, some well known and...

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This catalogue is a retrospective of Kocman's Artists' Books and Papers. Jiri Valoch contributed a critical essay that traced the interdisciplinary art movements of the 1970's, the European political and artistic community in which Kocman worked, and his studies in bookbinding and aesthetics. He describes Kocman's work as "a synthesis combining intellectual detachment informed by his conceptual experience with a remarkable sensibility and strong lyricism and with a continuous questioning of the nature of art." Several examples of Kocman's works are held by the Sackner Archive. For example, the catalogue depicts a reproduction of Poe's "The Raven," one of Kocman's paper re-making books that is held by the Sackner Archive. The catalogue lists "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka (1980) and Fragment of Videvdat and Other Fragments (1988), as well as several editioned books held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Krystyna Wasserman curated the exhibition and wrote an introductory essay. The Sackner Archive lent "La Prose du Transsiberien et de la Petitie Jehanne de France" by Sonya Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars. The books are illustrated on the right facing pages and each artist wrote a personal explanation of her work on the left facing page. Sandra Jackman, one of the contributing artists, provided a travel notebook from her journey to the middle east. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue lists the Sackner Archive in collections holding Haack's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 50, plate 44, depicts Wingbook, an artist book in edition of 12 that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent two of Ely's books to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent "Cries of Poindexter Village" to this exhibition pictured as plate 90. In the catalogue, Robinson describes this work as "a two-volume book I made for my son, Syndey. One volume is 'Schoolyard,' and the other is 'Bethlehem Journey,' a hinged book with a large cloth painting inside. Both volumes are about the voices of the children coming up in Poindexter and the characters who lived there and some of their stories." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue documents an exhibition of artist books (multiples) by Hutchins. The check list of books are printed four to a card that is slipped into woven page strips also with book listings. The cards illustrate three book installations. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding work by Hutchins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.