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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2625 Collections and/or Records:

The Story of "O", 1985

 Item — Box 192: [Barcode: 31858072459625]
Identifier: CC-12690-12933
Scope and Contents

Each "page" of this book is a round rubber gasket upon which the artist has printed statements beginning with O, e.g. O MY, OOO LA LA, OH WELL. The book is "bound" with a macrame strip. The title also refers to the well-known, erotic French novel with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Story So Far / Cinicolo 3, Donato., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-19639-20025
Scope and Contents

This artist book, consisting of typewriter poetry and art as well as short stories consiats of a large number of concrete poetic styles. Cinicolo's typing is so proficient that the text appears to be offset printed from a small size type face but was actually typed using an Olympia microface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Teeth in the Software: The Atom Bomb Changed Language into Soundbytes / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09067-9246
Scope and Contents

The words in the title are written in the text as words made by a phonetic software package. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Way to Your Self / Glenn Storhaug, translator ; Vigdis Garbarek, translator., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-10544-10748
Scope and Contents

Published in Norwegian by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag in Oslo in 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Wiggy Blues / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09283-9465
Scope and Contents

This is a love poem with tongue in cheek content to Sarah Menefee, Hirschman's current companion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

They Call It Stormy Monday... / Sutherland, W. Mark., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29605-30977
Scope and Contents

Each page is a 200% photocopied magnification of the previous page, the process continuing until the image explodes out of the frame of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Things Constantly Moving Against Electric Current / Huth, Geof., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09461-9648
Scope and Contents

The poems were written/designed in 1987 and the Endwords in 1992, expressly as part of a gift to Marvin and Ruth Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Thinking Editions / Hutchins, Edward H.., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-35477-37213
Scope and Contents

The card is printed on green, orange, pink and yellow stick card stock and must be bent open recto and verso to read the listings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

This / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09196-9377
Scope and Contents

The theme deals with the new order of Eastern European politics after the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

This The Mind / Robert The., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-01560-1595
Scope and Contents

The word "THIS" has been cut out of the entire book including the covers with a jigsaw. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Three Letters / Depew, Wally., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-51147-72234
Scope and Contents

The three letters in this book with varied type fonts and placement on the pages are J,K, and X. The last three printed pages depict a cryptic message, e.g., 'K X J,' 'and,' '1 Sign.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Three Words / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-58080-10001330
Scope and Contents

The three words, rubberstamped each on one of the pages are SHIT, FUCK and CUNT. The remainded of thr pages conist of abstract woodcut prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973