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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1479 Collections and/or Records:

Firecracker: All Books Are Meant to Be Read, 1994

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-09784-9978
Scope and Contents

A small soft cover book is wrapped in papers which include the text above and "Non-Archival Book Instructions: Light Fuse and Get Away." With the exposed string on top, this book object resembles a fire cracker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Fish Flies and Mirrors / Hackman, Vida., 1984

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Identifier: CC-43386-45448
Scope and Contents

Vida Ratzlaff Hackman (1935-1999) was a California artist who showed in major art galleries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Fitted Plug / Pawson, Mark., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04797-4888
Scope and Contents

Consists of 40 die-cut plug wiring diagrams that form almost visual poetic images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Flat Out, 1990

 Item — Box 119: [Barcode: 31858072460813]
Identifier: CC-05374-5477
Scope and Contents

Words and images printed in phosphorescent ink glow in the dark with the ultraviolet lamp. The story relates to the falling of the sky from hydrocarbon to waste. The earth is burned and most of the people channel up through the jagged holes. Bucko, a dyslexic nomad, one of the few people left, comes out at night and collects part of the sky. He hopes to recreate what once was. The pages spiral out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

flip-movie dance alphabet peepshow toy enigma boring book / Stomach, Ernie., 1971

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Identifier: CC-59065-66043
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Richard Hell (born Richard Lester Meyers) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer. Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion. He was one of the first to spike his hair and wear torn, cut and drawn-on shirts, often held together with safety pins. Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, has credited Hell as a source of inspiration for the Sex Pistols' look and attitude, as well as the safety-pin and graphics accessorized clothing that McLaren sold in his London shop, Sex.[2] Hell was in several important, early punk bands, including Neon Boys, Television, and The Heartbreakers, after which he formed Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Their 1977 album, Blank Generation, influenced many other punk bands. Its title song was named "One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock" by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing[3] and is ranked as one of the all-time top-ten punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as...
Dates: 1971

Floating Heads; A Contemporary Visual Narrative, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-17400-17765
Scope and Contents

The book consists of reproductions of several poems, composed by repetitively rubberstamping words and images, reflecting hazards to the environment. Also, includes several poems on topics related to breathing, viz. the words "scream and gotta sing" appear on one page with an image of a mouth and a face opposite to another page with the words "acid rain and gotta dance" with an image of two dogs dancing as metaphors for our lack of concern with a clean environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Flowers of the North Sea / Finlay, Alec., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36476-38273
Scope and Contents

This book was Finlay's contribution to Junge Kunst Internationale '99 sponsored by Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Luibek, Germany. Each page has three templates for the cards along one to three initials signifying where each card is to be placed based upon the call letters of the boat identified on the card. The cards consist of actual boat names of flowers and their descriptions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Flux Paper Events / Maciunas, George., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-39933-41900
Scope and Contents

This book consists of blank pages that have been physically manipulated, e.g., crumpled, torn, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Foules [Deluxe Copy] / Heidsieck, Bernard., 1974

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Identifier: CC-53885-58152
Scope and Contents

The ordinary and deluxe copies that are both held by the Sackner Archive do not differ except that the deluxe copy has an original collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Found Poems, 1990 - 1994

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Identifier: CC-10488-10692
Scope and Contents

In the colophon, Gallo mentions that the production of this book was made possible in part due to a grant from the Sackner Archive. The binding was done by Daniel Kelm. Each page has a single poem that was printed letterpress or from plates generated thru Alphatype or Postscript applications. The Archive for this book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990 - 1994