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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2621 Collections and/or Records:

Ogygia, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-58251-52592
Scope and Contents

The pages depict sections of maps encircled by a black ink border. The envelope is addressed to John Pyros. The card is an announcent tosubit to a correspondence art project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Ole-Love-Leo / Betty Radin., 1986

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Identifier: CC-45267-47452
Scope and Contents

The letraset letters form a face onto the mirror. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Ole-Love-Leo / Betty Radin., 1986

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Identifier: CC-45267-47452
Scope and Contents

The letraset letters form a face onto the mirror. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

On a Film of Fossils / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09158-9339
Scope and Contents

The poem is a spoof relating to a film recently made on the Beat Generation poets; Hirschman considers it a dead movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

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

One Cubic Foot / Kyle H ; Carothers M ; Irland B ; Weier D., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-04947-5044
Scope and Contents

Exhibition featured twelve three dimensional paper book objects. Organized by the Center for Book Arts. Brief introduction by Norman B. Colp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

One in a Million / Pisano, Marie G.., 1994

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Identifier: CC-29672-31047
Scope and Contents

This autobiography of the artist is presented with pages reproducing civil, banking, and photo documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

One of a Kind Artists' Books / Horvitz SR ; Raman AS ; Hoffberg J ; Beube D ; Carothers M ; Colby S ; Cutler-Shaw J ; Helfgott G ; Jackman S ; Korf K ; Kyle H ; Lerner S ; McCarney S ; Zagar I., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27717-28819
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by Suzanne Reese Horvitz and Anne Stengel Raman. Judith Hoffberg's essay is titled "Full of Elegance and Wit, Timeless yet Familiar: Unique Bookworks" from the writing of Robert Lax. She claims that artists books are not containers of ideas, but a consummate experience that challenge the reader and actively shape the reading experience. "The experience of viewing and reading a unique artist book is an interactive experience in which the viewer completes the work, creating and changing emotional reactions to the artist's own." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Onekahakaha / Jack A. Hirschman., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09312-9495
Scope and Contents

Onekahakaha is a Hawaian word meaning "picture drawing sand." The visual works in this book are varients of Hawaian petroglyphs. The poem in the book is an Indian love song written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Onekahakaha / Jack A. Hirschman., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09312-9495
Scope and Contents

Onekahakaha is a Hawaian word meaning "picture drawing sand." The visual works in this book are varients of Hawaian petroglyphs. The poem in the book is an Indian love song written by Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

One/Unique/Table, 1981

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19636-20022
Scope and Contents

This book was made in the summer of 1981 by developing artistic variations of some of the 500 tables as exhibited in Crozier's Table Project at Stempelplaats, Amsterdam, January 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Onion - One I've Known / Golden, Alisa., 1994

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Identifier: CC-10560-10765
Scope and Contents

The book deals with the poet's mother. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

OoOo... / McCallion, Barry., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-27375-28414
Scope and Contents The prints depict the same row or rows of the letter "O" in a different typefaces. The line of metal type to print these "O's" is also included in the portfolio. Iinternet: "Born in the Bronx, Mr. McCallion's first involvement with books was as an English literature major at Columbia. After graduating, he moved to the West Coast, earning an M.F.A. at Claremont Graduate University. It was there he become involved with Fluxus, an international network of artists, composers, and designers noted for blending different artistic mediums and disciplines in the '60s and '70s. "¦. Recalling his introduction to the group, Mr. McCallion said, "When I was in California I was doing conceptual pieces'"¦. Mr. McCallion traveled in England with members of Fluxus for a year, then returned by boat, docking in Montreal. From there he settled on a farm just across the Canadian border. "I realize now we should have driven farther south. Living off the land wasn't fun,' he said. "At least not for me.' A...
Dates: 1972

Opere di Vito Capone 1978 - 1998 / Capone, Vito., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31750-33262
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds a white handmade paper sculpted artist book (1983) entitled Libro Libro. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998