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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1479 Collections and/or Records:

Check for Mutilation on Return / Barnes, Stuart., 1998

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Identifier: CC-47233-49976
Scope and Contents

In this book, Barnes contrasts the mutilation of library books with sexual mutilation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Che/Loro, 1997

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Identifier: CC-30539-31968
Scope and Contents

This book is dedicated to the memories of politically murdered Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and Jorge 'Loro' Vazquez Viana. Each page can be separated and placed in a grid to reveal the completed image of these two men. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Chimaeren, 1994

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Identifier: CC-16102-16445
Scope and Contents

This is a manuscript in progress. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Chimaren, 1994

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Identifier: CC-27034-27508
Scope and Contents

This edition contains original works by international poets-artists. Includes an artist book containing rebuses by Dencker; the galley proof of this book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Chronographie Terrestre (Work in Progress), 2004

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Identifier: CC-49628-70680
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces pages from Haack's "Apokalyse" and "Kunstlerbuch" among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

ChronographieTerrestre (Work in Progress): We Work by Day and Fly by Night, 1988

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Identifier: CC-29652-31027
Scope and Contents

The image in the drawing accompanying this deluxe edition of the book is adapted from or served as an earlier study for the fourth reproduced drawing in the book. Its design consists of a reproduced drawing from the work with calligraphic text printed on a facing page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Chue / Buri, Samuel ; Eggemann, Ernst., 1971

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Identifier: CC-21603-22014
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book deals with cows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Circus of the Dead / Osowski, F'nL., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36000-37769
Scope and Contents

The first letter of each page is collaged and colored red. The Circus of the Dead is a midsummer event of Melbourne's gay and lesbian festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Claire Jeanine Satin: Sculpture, Bookworks & Related Objects, 1993

 Item — Box 133: [Barcode: 31858072457868]
Identifier: CC-02615-2658
Scope and Contents

The four books making up this exhibition catalog, which in itself can be classified as an artist book, comprise the topics, Sculpture, Artist and Process, Related Objects, and Bookworks. The latter includes Marvin Sackner's critical essay, "Who Says Thirteen Is Unlucky?" The theme of several of the pieces in the exhibition is Satin's adaptation of John Cage, Jasper Johns and Merce Cunningham's collaborative work, "Dancers on a Plane." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Cluster / Kowalski, Jorg ; Tarlatt, Ulrike., 1993

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Identifier: CC-07980-8136
Scope and Contents

The painted bookbinding depicts a visual poetic image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Co-Art / Nielsen, Mogans Otto; Langer, Ralf; Deisler, Guillermo., 1993

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Identifier: CC-05664-5771
Scope and Contents

This represents the results of a collaborative mail art project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Codex Atorrantis / Wright, Edward., 1984

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Identifier: CC-27684-28772
Scope and Contents As indicated in a 1985 exhibition catalogue sponsored by the British Arts Council, the idea for a new codex appears in the first notebook as part of the Central School teaching programme: like a Mexican codex in concertina form but 'applied to modern wrapping paper, one side only'. The notion lay dormant for many years but from 1972 its advances and vicissitudes are chronicled in the notebooks. Wright was working at that time on his article 'The Essential Book'. Peguy was the exemplary craftsman: for him 'a book meant a total commitment to social and spiritual truth. . . . A book meant writing, editing, printing, proof correcting, publishing and even opening a bookshop in the Rue de la Sorbonne'- the making and the message were inseparable.In an article written in a 1991 issue of Eye magazine on Wright's work, the form of the codex - is quite roughly made and free of grand summarising gestures. The chief subject is lunfardo, the slang of the vagrant people of Buenos Aires. This...
Dates: 1984

Codex Atorrantis / Wright, Edward., 1984

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Identifier: CC-39971-41938
Scope and Contents As indicated in a 1985 exhibition catalogue sponsored by the British Arts Council, the idea for a new codex appears in the first notebook as part of the Central School teaching programme: like a Mexican codex in concertina form but 'applied to modern wrapping paper, one side only'. The notion lay dormant for many years but from 1972 its advances and vicissitudes are chronicled in the notebooks. Wright was working at that time on his article 'The Essential Book'. Peguy was the exemplary craftsman: for him 'a book meant a total commitment to social and spiritual truth. . . A book meant writing, editing, printing, proof correcting, publishing and even opening a bookshop in the Rue de la Sorbonne'- the making and the message were inseparable.In an article written in a 1991 issue of Eye magazine on Wright's work, the form of the codex is quite roughly made and free of grand summarising gestures. The chief subject is lunfardo, the slang of the vagrant people of Buenos Aires. This code...
Dates: 1984