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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Memoirs of a French Woman / Rosemarie Chiarlone., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-20403-20800
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Mental Activities / Helmes, Scott., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09354-9540
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

MERRY: Am Xmas Story For my love / Depew, Wally., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-58116-10001368
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

merry merry merry / Depew, Wally., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-58154-10001407
Scope and Contents

Stored in Artist Books box. This book consists of three progresssion, viz., increasing dimensions of same font, distortions of individual letters and progression from black to gray scale. Unsure how he printed the letters that left an impression on the paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Mes Enluminures / Messager, Annette., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-06645-6764
Scope and Contents

Each page has a letter of the alphabet drawn with a visual reference and forms a letter of the word it represents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Mesostic Book, 1984

 Item — Box 133: [Barcode: 31858072457868]
Identifier: CC-02587-2629
Scope and Contents

Each page has been cut to four horizontal segments. A single word, white in color, has been cast into the white background of the page. A mesostic is formed from the middle letters of these four words. Reading down the center of the cover is the word alto which is the second part of the street name for the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Claire Jeanine Satin

Metaphor & Metamorphosis / Fisher, Barbara; Lyons J; Pomeroy J; Meador C; Braunstein T., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-10995-11209
Scope and Contents

A review of photographic book art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Mettiriopellezak Giacalbanuisutlerm [Unique Edition], 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-48915-69953
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Miami Beach / Sackner, Sara., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-45663-47862
Scope and Contents

Each collage (postcard) depicts an abstract impression of Miami Beach scenes made of cut, colored construction paper. They are labeled water, blimp, beach strip, pool and causeway on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Midnight / Minoy., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-59299-54261
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Minoy was the pseudonym of the electronic art musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (October 30, 1951 - March 19, 2010). He was a major figure in the DIY noise music and homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s. He released over 100 compositions. Stanley Keith Bowsza chose his pseudonym Minoy based upon how someone he met mispronounced the name of one of his favorite artists, the Catalan Surrealist Joan Miro. He is recognized as the master of controlled noise. He lived and worked in Torrance, California.Minoy produced some of the most remarkably engrossing, beautiful and imaginative work-of-art albums released on cassette in the 1980s, often with hand made covers. Minoy was an agoraphobic but prolific noise artist intensely active in the music underground between the years 1986 and 1992. During that period he created many unique audio works in collaboration with other sound artists and mail artists. Minoy was an avid mail collaborator,...
Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Millilitermeer: Fragment 1990-1991, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-27029-27503
Scope and Contents

All the color illustrations of Andryczuk's drawings are tipped onto the pages. The prints and drawing are housed in an insert on the inside of the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Milliseconds to Millenia: The Art of Time / Poehlmann JA ; Lessick H ; Helfgott G ; Heft C ; Barton CJ ; Colp N ; Lederman SB ; Korf K ; Davidson L ; Long ME ; Lukac J ; Clausen T ; Neaderland L ; Ng K ; Beube D ; Rosenberg MR ; Share S ; Smith EK ; Faust D ; Solomon C ; Tetenbaum B., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-06481-6600
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Carol Barton and its theme was a special view of time. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Mimi Ta Book / Behar, Zachary Sackner., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-23911-24359
Scope and Contents

Zachary Behar, age 3, is the grandson of Ruth and Marvin Sackner. This is his first completed book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Miniaturin III (1992-1995) / Konstriktor, Boris., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27405-28448
Scope and Contents

Eighteen expressionistic self-portrait drawings done with black-gray watercolors are affixed one to each page. They measure approximately 12.5 cm x 7.5 cm. In addition, two drawings are done as full pages in black, blue, and yellow paint over a found (?) Russian calligraphic text. The pages in white painted, handwriting appears to be a sound poem dealing with the sentence in German, "I am a dummy" and extensions of this sentence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Miracle / Depew, Wally., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-15179-15500
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a circle within a square of different colored schema. The duplicates have the same color scheme but vary slightly in their layouts on the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Mirror Talk / Kyle, Hedi., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-07713-7863
Scope and Contents

This is a masterpiece of book binding and mirror writiing content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

[mirror writing] / Werbachowska, Alicja., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-29701-31076
Scope and Contents

The text was written on translucent paper and then folded such that it remained on the inside surface of the sleeve pages. The ink writings appear as mirror writings on the outside surface owing to transmission through the translucency of the paper. The text was written on a slant on part of each page. It gives a Moebus strip-like appearance when the book is opened and several pages are viewed simultaneously through the translucent paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Mirrors / Cutts, Simon., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-16443-16795
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Missing Pages: Idaho & the Book / Day L ; Trusky T ; Castle J., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-06611-6730
Scope and Contents

This exhibition that was curated by Tom Trusky deals with books related by content or author to Idaho. Provides biography and reproduction of the bookworks of James Castle (1899-1977), an illiterate deaf mute who made artist books with visual/verbal content from an early age until his death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

MMM - Extra: Die Fische. No.3 / Pierre Garnier., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33999-35675
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a drawing of a fish or sea scene and a handwritten explanation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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