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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2625 Collections and/or Records:

Petit Roman (Libro-Opera) / Caruso, Luciano., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-19139-19518
Scope and Contents

In addition to the single pages with paint and writing, five sections of pages have been glued together permitting the artist to treat the sections with heavier paint applications. The original book was an entry journal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

PETRIfied forEAST / Galantai, Gyorgy ; Petri, Gyorgy ; Forgacs, Peter., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-10622-10831
Scope and Contents

The three books were created by their authors during a residency in 1990. The book, Oppression & Freedom, Inc. - dedicated to memory of Peter Mark Roget consists of a list of words beginning with "non," dictionary pages that include oppression & free thesaurus pages that include words beginning with "free"; the pages have a header, Supposed but not allowed. A book, Poetry, contains Haiku & picture poems. Galantai's artist book, He is He, contains minimalist poems, visual art, and a concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

PEYOTE / Depew, Wally., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-15174-15495
Scope and Contents

The layouts of the copies differ among them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

P.F. 91-88 / Kolar, Jiri; Kolar, Bela., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-39901-41868
Scope and Contents

The cover is perforated in the shape of Brancusi's sculpture "Bird in Flight." The loose sheets that depict reproductions of paintings, are meant to be placed immediately below the cover to provide a different appearance of this "moveable collage." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Phi / Pena, Alonso Barros ; Moholy-Nagy L., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-04833-4926
Scope and Contents

Pena lists his poems in the index according to Mayan hieroglyphics. The letters of the words of the poems are presented in varied colors and the shapes reference the calligrams of Apollinaire. A page with musical notation depicts words in different size typefaces & spacing akin to Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. These points were raised in a review of this book by Rodolfo Alonso that accompanies it. Finally, the box for the book contained paper to make it usable for an H-P computer driven printer.This book might have been composed with a typewriter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Philoontosophy - Gazaliel [Deluxe Edition], 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-60659-62473
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book were handcolored by Elizabeth Was. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Photo Archive, 2004

 Item — Box 299: [Barcode: 31858072460888]
Identifier: CC-42719-44738
Scope and Contents

The drawings are sketches of the locations of items within Collins' archive. The photographs document various Collins inspired projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Photoanalysis / Leiber, Steven ; Barry R ; Beuys J ; Boltanski C ; Gerz J ; Kaprow A ; Kruger B ; Levine L ; Long R ; Ruppersberg A ; Tot E ; Maciunas G ; Higgins D ; Gette PA ; Ben ; LeGac J ; Boltanski C ; Bory JF ; Attalai G ; Abramovic M ; Baldessari J ; Messager A ; Breakwell I ; Calle S ; Kirby M ; Ontani L ; Matta-Clark G ; Willats S ; Tot E ; Ruscha E ; Snow M ; Weiner L., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-07524-7668
Scope and Contents

The catalogue is an example of Neo-Dada with found texts (these are cited in a bibliogrpahy on a loose sheet) opposite the item for sale bearing minimal relation to that item. The annotated items for sale are covered by a tipped-in, photocopied, reproduction from the item. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

[Photographic Album] / Cobbing, Bob., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-17300-17664
Scope and Contents

Works are print-ready, sound poems housed in a standard photographic album. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Photos of 2002 / Dmitry Babenko., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-40110-42079
Scope and Contents

The disc contains images of Babenko's artistic works of 2002 in jpeg and tiff formats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Phrex Brain, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-00355-363
Scope and Contents

Contains a page depicting the lungs with a caption from a clipping about the scientific aspects of models, viz. "We do not necessarily believe that the picture of nature we thus form is the real world. Many scientists say it is simply a model that works!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Phrex Brain / Was, Elizabeth., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-00357-365
Scope and Contents

Contains a page depicting the lungs with a caption from a clipping about the scientific aspects of models, viz. "We do not necessarily believe that the picture of nature we thus form is the real world. Many scientists say it is simply a model that works!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Pictoesies, 1998

 Item — Box 128: [Barcode: 31858072458304]
Identifier: CC-33697-35359
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts four horizontally placed squares containing line drawings and texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Pictographs / Keith, Bill ; McHugh B., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34777-36483
Scope and Contents

Keith hand colored his trade edition book and added fragments of text, with West African cultural images, and integrated elements of music scores with the pictographs and signs. This book is hand colored and collaged by the Keith from his trade edition book designed by Bryan McHugh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Pictured Books / Seille G., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-03781-3853
Scope and Contents

Curated by Paul Hatton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Pine Cone / Happersett, Susan., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-09810-10004
Scope and Contents

The artist writes that "this series of drawings is based on a sequence of fibonacci numbers and ratios that form parallel spirals in pine cones." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995