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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1535 Collections and/or Records:

Anatomy of a Shakespeare Man/Anatomy of a Shakespeare Woman / Andres, Angela., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32612-34194
Scope and Contents

The pages depict illustrations of a man and a woman with reproductions of anatomical drawings adapted from various medieval and renaissance texts, captioned with quotations from Shakespeare's plays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Ancestor Dragon Buddha Bean / Knowles, Alison ; Was, Elizabeth ; And, Miekal., 1992

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Identifier: CC-08007-8163
Scope and Contents

Deals with Knowle's theme of the bean. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Animal Auto Volume 1 & Volume 2 / Osowski, F'nL., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34491-36188
Scope and Contents

The book covers are silk fabric. Osowski writes that the work is a "treatise regarding Animal-Auto interaction." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Appear-Disappear / Immoos, Franz., 1978

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Identifier: CC-62498-47651
Scope and Contents

The words of the title were blind stamped using letterpress on a pile of papers so that that top page has a deep impression and the last page a faint impression. The pages were arranged so that the first page of the book depicts the faint impression of "appear" that progresses to the deep impression of "appear." This is followed by the deep impression of "disappear" that progresses to the faint impression of "disappear." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Arbeiten 1977-1980: Collagen, Buchobjekte, Objektbilder (Deluxe Edition) / Gruber, Hermann., 1980

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Identifier: CC-10265-10468
Scope and Contents

This deluxe edition of the catalogue features a unique cover and a collage; its textural content is the same as the ordinary edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Archetype Press: {twenty-one} 21 Archetype Mixers. No.46 / Gloria Kondrup, editor., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52579-73712
Scope and Contents The book celebrates 21 years of the Archetype Press and relates to the legal drinking age of 21. Each page is a typographic recipe for an alcholic beverage. It was produced by undergraduate students at the Art Center College Archetype Press under the direction of Gloria Kondrup. The Sackner copy of the book is the hard cover limited edition version. The other copies are soft cover books. Interview with Gloria Kondrup, Director of Archetype Press in The Dotted Line, official blog of Art Center College of Design: Interviewer: What do you see in the future for Archetype Press? Kondrup: "Unfortunately, the foundry metal type will eventually wear out, become lost or destroyed. But as education continues the digital march forward, the process of letterpress printing will hopefully remain a valuable technology in the study of typography and language, and conventional printing process will continue through the integration photopolymer plates that are digitally created. I see us moving...
Dates: 2010

Architexture / Topel, Andrew ; Murphy S., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51541-72639
Scope and Contents

Sheila Murphy provided critical remarks at the end of this book. The layout of all the poems in this book is the same. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Archives Pessinoises / Pessin, Marc ; Butor M., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28678-29979
Scope and Contents The white cover and spine are embossed in Pessin's typical style of repeated abstract markings or hieroglyphics that are utilized as a personal alphabet. Similar markings are contained on the three folded pages embossed on white, brown and beige papers. The remaining pages contain reproduced, handwritten French text by Pessin that offers an explanation of his personal alphabet. A poetic text by Jean-Pierre Spilmont and a critical text by Michel Butor are included in this catalogue. A description of Pessin's work which was included in the exhibition, "Civilisations Imaginaires" follows. The distinctive trademark of Marc Pessin's prints is a sophisticated system of waffle printing producing pages where the signs appear in relief. Using the same technique, a series of books were made with drawings from self taught outsider artists like Pierre Pascaud, Alain Pauzie, lan Pyper, Patrick Guallino and Jean Paul Baudouin. Born in 1933 in Paris, in a family of fairground artists, Marc Pessin...
Dates: 1997

Arkaeologika / Critical Art Ensemble; M Kurtz., 1990

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Identifier: CC-17396-17761
Scope and Contents

The content of this book deals with preservation of the environment. One of the persons in this group is Mike Kurtz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990