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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1479 Collections and/or Records:

Found Poetry / Deisler, Guillermo., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-16328-16678
Scope and Contents

Pages are different sizes and were assembled from magazines, books, postcards, and advertisements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Four / Lisboa, Unhandeijara., 1979

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Identifier: CC-31150-32618
Scope and Contents

The pages were cut from a popular periodical, possibly "Time" and a circular hole made in the middle; the silvef foil was inserted midway in the book to give an image of a silver circle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Fragments / Carbone, Denise., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33892-35564
Scope and Contents

The main text on each page is printed in black ink with wood blocks. The smaller text is letterpress in red ink. Each page contains a collage of found fragments enclosed with acetate. Carbone writes in the colophon that we should "observe each piece, bit, scrap, chip, sliver, particle - reduced to tarnished, withered, warped, punctured, frayed, mared, burned, brused, violated, gnawed, impaired, dog-eared, decrepted, corroded, fragments." The book is printed on artwax brown paper (kraft paper) that imparts a pleasant, waxy smell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Frammento Superstite e Perclusus / Caruso, Luciano ; Rocca, Roberta., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39301-41248
Scope and Contents

Caruso wrote the poem printed on the first page and Roberta Rocca created the collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Fries / Stadtmuller, Monika ; Stadtmuller, Klaus., 1990

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Identifier: CC-58475-10001695
Scope and Contents

Klus Stadtmuller has written on Kurt Schwitters' work with Michael Erlhoff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

From A to Z [reprint], 2012

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Identifier: CC-60050-10003083
Scope and Contents This book is a semi-autobiographical novel dealing with romance, self revelation, and poets and writers in her life while she lived in San Francisco bay area as expressed with "tour de force" experimental typography and layout. Drucker purchased a variety of cold typefaces for letterpress printing and set out to use the entire set in writing this book. As a reviewer writes, "Linguistic architecture in the personal voice as manifest in particular elements of vigorous typographic representation." In a personal communication to the Sackners, Drucker stated that 100 copies were intended but only 96 were actually collated.The following explanation of the book as copied from a 10 typed page letter, dated January 1979, addressed to Mr Groenendijk, a collector living in Amsterdam, is reproduced below. This letter is held by the Sackner Archive - the Sackners sent a copy to Johanna Drucker after a personal communication revealed that she did not have a copy in her possession.I did this book...
Dates: 2012

From Now / Drucker, Johanna., 2005

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Identifier: CC-46622-49352
Scope and Contents

This book encompasses at least four non-sequential story lines as denoted by a typographic style for each one. One phrase in the book may have originated from a conversation that Marvin Sackner had with Johanna Drucker, "Meyer Lansky read the dictionary and the Rand reports." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

From Now / Drucker, Johanna., 2005

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Identifier: CC-46623-49353
Scope and Contents

This book encompasses at least four non-sequential story lines as denoted by a typographic style for each one. One phrase in the book may have originated from a conversation that Marvin Sackner had with Johanna Drucker, "Meyer Lansky read the dictionary and the Rand reports." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Fukujuso / Die Reiche Neuling / Wagner, Dieter., 1984

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Identifier: CC-40923-42900
Scope and Contents

Words and letters are silkscreened onto cut pages of a German residential telephone directory. The letters are a surrogate for Japanese words for a book published in the Edo period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Gallery Number Ten Publications: Flower: Love Story. / Brian Lane., 1967

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Identifier: CC-28036-29192
Scope and Contents

The book does not contain text; the images are solid and hollow circles representing a flower and the pollination cycle. Edited by Brian Lane and Trevor Wells. Designated No.125 in bibliography of book entitled "The Printed Performance Brian Lane Works 1966-99." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Ganglia's Concrete Series: The Year of the Frog. No.3 / bp Nichol., 1967

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Identifier: CC-47596-68605
Scope and Contents

This was first published as Gronk 2. This book is replete with Nichol's drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967