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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Altered Page, The / Broaddus JE ; Cheung CH ; Ely T ; Kolar J ; Mon F ; Caruso L ; Hirschman J ; Phillips T ; Sackner MA ; Kamensky V ; Kolar J ; Spector B ; Baroni V ; Knapp D ; Wygonik M ; Brown B ; Noel A ; Polansky L ; Trasobares C ; Masullo A., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-25831-26292
Scope and Contents

This exhibition originated from the Sackner Archive and was curated by the Sackners. It consisted of an introductory essay by Marvin Sackner and a classification system for the pages exhibited: 1) Hidden Meanings, 2) Cancelled, 3) Cut, Torn Crumpled, Perforated, 3) Fragmented, 4) Layered, 5) Sculptured, and 6) Sewn and Woven. The cover of the book was designed by Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Bilderspiegel / Schauffelen, Konrad Balder ; Kolar, Jiri., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-49055-70093
Scope and Contents

In this book which is also designated as Tangenten No.4, a small square of mirror is set in stamped out thin card pages. One glassine page overlays it with a printed magic square poem. Parts of the backing of the mirror have been scatched out by the artist and it has been glued down to the card. Poetry has been printed on the pages with the stamped out sections. This book was edited by Walter Aue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

E 835, 1966

 Item — Box 85: [Barcode: 31858072538196]
Identifier: CC-49083-70121

Evidentni Basne / Kolar, Jiri; Mondrian P; Fontana G; Brancusi C., 1959

 Item
Identifier: CC-50452-71520
Scope and Contents

These prints depict characteristic images of contemporary artists in typewriter format; only three of the eight images could be identified. This portfolio is rare and only one other copy could be located at Fondazione Berardelli in Brescia Italy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1959

In Octavo: Le Vin des Mots. No.7 / Jiri Kolar., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-08569-8741
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a wine bottle collaged with different text, languages, and images. The print is collaged to the inner front cover of the folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Jiri Kolar: Defectueux Tirage / Kolar, Jiri ; Chalupecky, Jindrich, editor., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-45646-47845
Scope and Contents

In this book, Kolar produced a special edition of the catalogue of his work in which he intervened to collage or tip-in reproductions of printed fragments of collages used in other books onto the reproductions of collages of the pages in this book. Each of the 50 copies of this boook is unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

La Moustache de Lope de Vega dans les Cheveux de Dorothy Parker / Bory, Jean-Francois ; Kolar, Jiri., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-24192-24644
Scope and Contents

Every other line of poetry is set in Bory's characteristic experimental typography (as used on the page in the golden typwriter held by the Sackner Archive). Kolar's work, which is different for each copy in the run, is a card with a cut out of a cubist woman placed over a card of the Mona Lisa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Nahoru a dolu, hloubkove basne / Kolar, Jiri ; Hlavacek J., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-46583-49313
Scope and Contents

The French title is "En-haut et en-bas" or "Top and Bottom,"or "High and Low." Each page is a print of Kolar's typogrammes from the 1960's. The pages are cut so that a portion of typing from the following pages become an important part of the composition. Kolar created new configurations with the typewriter that were known as "creations plastiques." The Sackner Archive holds unique typewritten pages that were bound into a unique binding by Pella Erskine Tullock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Nahoru a dolu, hloubkove basne / Kolar, Jiri ; Hlavacek J., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-34552-36251
Scope and Contents

The French title is "En-haut et en-bas" or "Top and Bottom,"or "High and Low." Each page is a print of Kolar's typogrammes from the 1960's. The pages are cut so that a portion of typing from the following pages become an important part of the composition. Kolar created new configurations with the typewriter that were known as "creations plastiques." The Sackner Archive also holds nine unique typewritten pages that were bound into a unique binding by Pella Erskine Tullock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The End of Words, Selected Works 1947-1970: Defective Copy / Kolar, Jiri., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-07817-7970
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding was done by Jane Rollo. Each copy is virtually unique since collages were made adhering a limited number of the defective printed pages onto the pagea of the printed book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990