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A Meditation / Avadenka, Lynne., 1986
The text is taken from The Song of Songs 4:6. The perforations on three of the pages are pairs of Hebrew 'yod's' in a large typeface.' The text is based upon the phrase, "In the heat of the day {life}, God is a protective shadow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Charles Baudelaire: Je Hais Le Movement Qui Deplace Les Lignes / Broodthaers, Marcel ; Baudelaire C., 1973
des grossen erfolges wegen / Ulrichs, Timm., 1968
This early artist book by Ulrichs is composed of the repeating phrase 'uber 50 mal!' printed in black on pink stock on each of 50 pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
It is Almost That (Box): House of Dust. No.7 / Alison Knowles., 2011
The editor of this boxed series is Lisa Pearson. This is a reprint of a book using computer programming that Knowles published in 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Once / Depew, Wally., 1971
This book deals with the travails of the Plains American Indians in abstract poetic terms. It involves a progession in dimensions of the rubberstamped word "ONCE" on the left sided page and progessive addition of the number of gray filled in woodcut squares on the right sided page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Red Bag of Courage 2nd edition / Depew, Wally., 2001
The leaflets are printed and handcolored with the word, courage, in varied colors of ink. This version of the work was based upon a unique 1978 work. The embroidered badges were made by Steve Gilley in his shop in Yakima, Washington. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Red Bag of Courage / Depew, Wally., 1984
The leaflets are rubberstamped with the word, courage, in varied colors of ink. One leaflet depicts an image of a lion. The rubberstamped leaflets differ in color and layout from bag to bag such that all ten copies can be considered unique. All seven copies are stored in the Wally Depew unique box. This version of the work was based upon a unique 1978 work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Things to Do Today / Cairns, Phyllis., 1985
The first page depict an image of a wide open mouth with the word "scream" overlying it that is progessively enlarged on succeeding pages by photocopying. The final page depicts a closed mouth captioned by the word "smile." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
To Work / Tan, Elisa., 1991
This book, which is designated the 2nd edition, deals with Tan's memories of working 9 hours a day in a hand-bag factory in 1977. She pasted imitation-leather onto cardboard. The text relates to a printed book first editioned in 1978 in 50 copies. The Sackner Archive holds a copy of a related unique book, entitled, "Conjugation of the Verb: To Work," in which the pages have collaged elements of a similar text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.