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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

A History of the Conical Hat and Current Events Scrapbook / Jackman, Sandra ; Reichek E., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08247-8409
Scope and Contents

The collaged relief letter picture on cover spells out Tick Tock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Book Object on Brass Feet] / Sandra Jackman., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-34795-36502
Scope and Contents

Jackman made an artist book seated on two brass clawed feet. The pages are heavily collaged with drawings and photographs. The cover has metal fragments that include a turning, cogged wheel and spear-like object. This book object is placed within a baker's glass dome that is used to display a cake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Epic Poem / Jackman, Sandra., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-08334-8498
Scope and Contents

There is no title page to this book that indicates its title. A great deal of the calligraphy has been generated with pseudo-Japanese-ideographic characters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

For Adults Only (The Art Book - Passion Plays and Amourous Spells), 1996

 Item — Box 100
Identifier: CC-28807-30122
Scope and Contents Sandra Jackman writes to the Sackners that this piece was inspired by her Hungarian grandmother who always told her, "To read is to want to know." She hid candy and books in the second drawer of her bureau, where Jackman would forage. "I was grown before I realized that I had been seduced into becoming a reader. In Europe, the rabbis would drip honey on scripture written on slate for the young students to lick off after they repeated the lesson...This early freedom to investigate any form of reading material, to appease my curiosity is the inspiration for Adults Only, a book within a book. My grandmother's bureau is transformed into a dollhouse cupboard and collaged with scraps of printed matter. Its shelves are filled with treasures. This is the centerpiece for a triptych (a style usually reserved for religious images). The front left wing refers to a myth. The fellow with the flute to his lips is from a painting by Perugino. Marsyas the Satyr is showing off his talent to the God...
Dates: 1996

Hystorian, 1992

 Item — Box 96: [Barcode: 31858072538113]
Identifier: CC-08288-8451
Scope and Contents

The title is a pun on "his;" feminine form; truth elusive. Clio, the muse of history, is the shadow-like figure in the collages. The book containing the collages is supported on the hanger structure. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Ich Finde], 1987

 Item — Box 180: [Barcode: 31858072459500]
Identifier: CC-57621-57276
Scope and Contents

There are pseudo-German baroque texts running througout the book that spawn figures or heads from the letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Interrupted Reading / Sandra Jackman., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-59080-57393
Scope and Contents

This book object is the first artwork of Jackman's that the Sackners purchased. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Once Upon a Time (Born Again), 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-08339-8504
Scope and Contents

This book includes one fold-out page featuring anterior and posterior aspects of both lungs with collaged, color photographic reproductions, such as faces of children, a clothed body with an eye substituting for a face, and a snail shell. Its border consists of inked and acrylic painted, abstract, repetitive markings. Other images in the book often intermingle collaged and painted, realistic people and animals with Jackman's conjured, surrealistic creatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Imposter (One Thing Leads to Another) and Other Short Stories / Sandra Jackman., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-08313-8476
Scope and Contents

Jackman writes at the bottom of the box, "From the old, rare, curious one of a kind foreign unfit to read, non archival book collection." Seven varying shaped collage assemblages are stacked in the richly collaged box which has a lid with a handle made from a carved and embellished pencil. The scrolls consist of hand printed poems on the recto and drawings on the verso. These also include pseudo-Chinese ideograms. As usual, a tour de force by Jackman! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Life and Times of Simian, Volume 1 / Sandra Jackman., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-08294-8457
Scope and Contents

This piece is a book sculpture opened on one side to a box containing 22 treated pages and on the other side to a collaged surface. The sculpture sets on a metal stand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Poet Assassinated / Jackman, Sandra., 1994 - 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-08323-8486
Scope and Contents

This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994 - 1995