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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1535 Collections and/or Records:

27 / Katz, Leandro., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-44483-46633
Scope and Contents

Each page is headed by a letter of the Spanish alphabet and a photocopied photograph of a windmill with a caption. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

29 novembrer 74, Portrait des 9 [Deluxe Edition] / Chopin, Henri., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-20509-20906
Scope and Contents

The texts on each page concern the T.V.A. common tax proposed in several European countries and the social problems arising on" luxembourgeois, celtes, germaisnes, anglo-saxons, latins...un peu scandinaves." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

31 days: A drawing a day / Griffiths, Julia., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-39207-41152
Scope and Contents

The two copies differ in the handcolored additions and the dimensions of the cloth additions. Further, this copy is unsigned and the other is signed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

31 days: A drawing a day / Griffiths, Julia., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-39208-41153
Scope and Contents

The two copies differ in the handcolored additions, the collaged additions, and the dimensions of the cloth additions. Further, this copy is unsigned and the other is signed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

67 / Sit, Oey Tjeng., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-32497-34073
Scope and Contents

The following text is written one word to a page as follows, T.S. asked me to design a book containing as many pages as my age was. I promised immediately. "When is your birthday," he asked. I told him. "Don't wait too long." I was determined to keep the amount of pages to my present age. So it was no use to try to delay proceedings. I regret not to be any younger, the first time in my life. Sit was a member of the Boekie Woekie artist group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

100 Coordinates of Violence / Maher, Miranda., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-34625-36326
Scope and Contents

The book is punctured in its center with a hole to simulate that is a round circle that toward the end of the book becomes raged as a simulation of a bullet hole. Each page contains an identical landscape with the bullet hole placed above the horizon. At the bottom of each page are the different coordinates, e.g. 51o 21'N x 12o 25'E, that symbolize the location where violence took place. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

1000 Coordinates of Violence / Maher, Miranda., 2001

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Identifier: CC-48748-69782
Scope and Contents

The book is the editioned version of Maher's original bookwork "100 Coordinates of Violence" which is held by in the Sackner Archive. It was published to coincide with an installation at Kunstbuncker in Nurnberg, Germany. The original book consisted of pages shot through by bullets. Now the 1000 coordinates that symbolize the location where violence took place are listed on each page. An afterward lists several pages of "better informed, better organized and more selflessly dedicated curmudgeons... to fuel your own investigations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

1989 / Van Horn, Erica., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-44606-46769
Scope and Contents

This book deals with the places of her travels during the year 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

22743 Locher..................Punchings / Olbrich, Jurgen ; Schnyder, Achim., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-55704-52670
Scope and Contents

The confetti in the cover bag came from the perforations of the punched pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

1971.7.4 / Yoshida, Hideki., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-00148-153
Scope and Contents

The other 500 copies of this book were bound in Schmuck No.8, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

333366666 / Palou, Joan., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-30706-32150
Scope and Contents

The book consists of blank pages with a circular hole cut out in their centers. A ball bearing that has been placed within the circular opening, is free to move. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

A | B / Kozlowski, Jaroslaw., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-37066-38907
Scope and Contents

This book consist of the capital letters A and B separated by a vertical line being rotated frame by frame, one frame to a page, in a circular motion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

A Dictionary Story / Winston, Sam., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-53310-100028
Scope and Contents

This a surreal story about a dictionary with innovative page layouts dealing with definitions and syntax. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006