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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

More Mother Goose / Elise Asher., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-24987-25440
Scope and Contents

This book recounts the story of Mother Goose in calligraphic text and stylized images. The pages consist of transparent thick plexiglas bound with layers of string to form a free-standing sculptural object. Elise Asher, who was the wife of Stanley Kunitz the poet, died at age 92 years in March 2004 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

More Mother Goose / Elise Asher., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-24987-25440
Scope and Contents

This book recounts the story of Mother Goose in calligraphic text and stylized images. The pages consist of transparent thick plexiglas bound with layers of string to form a free-standing sculptural object. Elise Asher, who was the wife of Stanley Kunitz the poet, died at age 92 years in March 2004 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Moving Arrows, Eros and Other Errors / Eisenman, Peter., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-14366-14675
Scope and Contents

This work coincides with an exhibition of the drawings of Peter Eisenman for the 1985 Venice Biennale. It is based upon the story of Romeo and Juliet and the city of Verona. It is also designated as Box No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Munakata's China Blues / Hirschman, Jack., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-58315-59502
Scope and Contents

Wikipedia: Munakata is a Japanese city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, in the north Chikuzen region of the prefecture. The city was founded on April 1, 1981. As of April 1, 2008, the city has an estimated population of 94,660 and a population density of 791 persons per km 2. It is off the coast of China -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Muse Kaip Knyga: Catalog of Artistic Books / Maurus H ; Rypson P ; Morgenstern C ; Mallarme S ; Schwitters K ; Hugnet G ; Duchamp M ; Roth D ; Kolar J ; Apollinaire G ; Marinetti FT ; Grigaliunas K., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-06682-6801
Scope and Contents

The theme of the exhibition was "The Fly." It was curated by Kestutis Grigalinus. It includes several essays that illustrate and trace the international artist book movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Muse Measures, 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-31911-33436
Scope and Contents

Ruth Laxson combines worldly, sophisticated statements of truth and wisdom with lively typographic, hand drawn and written designs. The book is divided into three sections: Theory, Figments and Other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Museum of Penny Candy, 2000

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-35181-36915
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of the candy object described by an ancient dictionary along with the candy itself. The presentation is reminiscent of early Joseph Kosuth works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

My Body / Dunne, Jason., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27776-28905
Scope and Contents

Each page is typed with a single word to form a sentence when read as a whole, "my body has not clicked...". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

My Dolly and Me / Lotz, Renate., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-33116-34742
Scope and Contents

The drawings, that are bound into this book, consist of stylized, line drawings of upright, cylindrical figures with different animal heads. In some drawings, areas are highlighted with red watercolor or red colored pencil marks; others have cartoon bubbles with text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

My Frankenstein / Corris, Michael ; Reinhardt A., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-19677-20064
Scope and Contents

The text and images are printed as dark grays or blacks on black such that their reading is made difficult. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992