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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Orphan / Winston, Sam., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52547-73677
Scope and Contents The single, unique, unbound perforated page that depicts a poem entitled "Breath" was provided to this deluxe edition. The other four deluxe copies had different poems. A unique copy contained the manuscript. The following has been taken from the Web Site of Sam Winston: "Since 1999 I collated scraps of paper, diary notes and typed word document all pertaining to this one idea I was trying to express through a story. And when in 2010 I finally did reach a final draft, I also realised I had generated a history of documents that said something about the process of writing itself. For Orphan I wanted to present both my final tale and show the archaeology of that writing process. By cutting out the words from my previous drafts I created clouds of text that I could use as the "typeface' for my final draft. It is a book in which you have both the story and its history presented on the same page. The second section is comprised of the previous drafts that didn't make it into the final...
Dates: 2011

Otkyrtoje pismo (Skribentismen in der Provence), 2000

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Identifier: CC-34429-36126
Scope and Contents

One of the pamphlets that consists of a printed folded papercard sheet depicts a colored photograph of Scherstjanoi and also includes the colophon. The other pamphlet consists of Table of Contents for the picture poems in the three books. The theme of the drawings is Scherstjanoi's hieroglyphic, interpretations of the landscapes of Aix-en-Provence and Arie after Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. The individual drawings are reminiscent of those found in the books by Albrecht Genin that are also hold by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Ou tour de Proust / Termeer, Ulrike., 1986

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Identifier: CC-59450-64187
Scope and Contents

Although 40 copies of this titled work were distributed, all copies are unique. There are a total of 77 drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Outa De Cobwebs: Premonitions, 1985

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Identifier: CC-17426-17791
Scope and Contents

The cover is unique and was painted by Liz Was. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Oxford Pubs Past and Present / Claire, Paula ; Spencer, Isabelle., 1981 - 1991

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Identifier: CC-17476-17842
Scope and Contents

The poem is by Claire (composed in 1981) and the calligraphy by Spencer. Isabelle Spencer (1924-2011) was a teacher in the British school system and a calligrapher. The other copy of this book is owned by Paula Claire. The poem is in the poetic style of naming ships by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981 - 1991

Page-Miroir: Poulard 1498 Poupee, Respirateur 1688 Ressac, 1980 - 1992

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Identifier: CC-03592-3657
Scope and Contents

Words and phrases from a French dictionary have been altered in the form of comments, underlines, cancellations, and removal by perforations. Each of two headers of the printed columns of the pages has been retitled to more closely connote the new theme achieved by Racin's alterations. At the bottom of the columns, a printed phrase, denoted by a graphite mark in the vertical margin, has been rewritten to express a unifying theme. Marks and letters in the margins reflect arcane record keeping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980 - 1992

Pagemakers / Collins P., 1999

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Identifier: CC-35974-37740
Scope and Contents

Patricia Collins' contribution to the exhibition is titled "Messages in Bottles." The post card of her work has a note of thanks to Marvin Sackner for his support. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Paginations, 1984

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Identifier: CC-36062-37836
Scope and Contents

This commissioned exhibition catalogue was sent to selected librairies and collectors to celebrate the ARLIS meetings in Williamstown in 1984. It itself is an artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Pain, Pain... / Stilinovic, Mladen., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02326-2366
Scope and Contents

The caption at the bottom of each page printed in white acrylic paint reads "BOL" (pain). The images or objects on the page have little relation to the caption. Mladen Stilinovic (1947-2016) work was illustrated in NYT September 2018 in an article about the Vienna Art Fair. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Pal'aplia - dei / Segay, Serge., 1973

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Identifier: CC-27636-28717
Scope and Contents

Pages are collaged with abstract paper shapes that are meant to be lifted up for reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Palimpsests / Lewty, Simon., 1986

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Identifier: CC-54094-55632
Scope and Contents

The drawings constitute the pages of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986