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Artist book (limited edition)

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1479 Collections and/or Records:

Hulls (1) Hulls (2), 1998

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Identifier: CC-35426-37161
Scope and Contents

Hulls (1) consists of 43 leaves of intersperced single names of fishing boats, one to a page, with varied numbers of colored paper stock signifying the colors on their hulls. Hulls (2) uses the names of the colors, black on 22 leaves of white paper stock to identify the hulls. The books were made by Colin Sackett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Humument Images to Accompany James Joyce's Ulusses / Phillips, Tom ; Moxham B., 2014

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Identifier: CC-58971-10002162
Scope and Contents Bernard Moxham has contributed an essay on the historical background of James Joyce's creation of "Ulysses" and several other critical interpretations of this masterful book. Tom PHillips writes an essay on his creating images for Joyce's "Ulysses." He writes "Joyce of course knew and revered Dante as Dante knew and revered Virgil, and Virgil Homer...my life and my work and my enthusiasms made some sort of unified field whose preoccupations, initially isolated, found by gravity a mutual attraction. This of course is what happens in the evoked worlds of Dante's Florence, Cicero's Rome and Joyce's Dublin where are met the people who make sense of life, and through their grand imperfections make life rich."The 18 illustrations by Phillips relate to the 18 chapters of "Ulysses .Each one is bordered and relates to the size adn shpe of th eiPad that phillips s=usses as aformof his work."The pages of new images by Tom Phillips and references on the facing page by excerpts by Joyce,...
Dates: 2014

i pasen / Petterson, Berndt., 1965

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Identifier: CC-16825-17181
Scope and Contents

The Swedish title translates to "In the Bag" and consists of machine typed graphic poems, most of them in the form of a bag; the leaves are supposed to be torn out and hanged on the wall in any order one might prefer. One of the earliest and most well-known Swedish artist's books -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

I.A.C. (International Artists Cooperation): MasturbaCtion. No.8 / Ugo Carrega., 1973

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Identifier: CC-08395-8561
Scope and Contents

Edited by Klaus Groh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Ich Standart-Literatur / Penck, A.R.., 1971

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Identifier: CC-28682-29984
Scope and Contents

This book is a reprint of one of Penck's sketch books of ideas. The pages include hand printed and written text in blue inks. The visual content is minimal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

ideas of god, 2008

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Identifier: CC-48340-69365
Scope and Contents Catherine Foc exhibition review at MOCA GA: Over the course of her long, fecund career, Ruth Laxson has honed a unique language rooted in her fascination with forms of communication. Letters, words, hieroglyphics, mathematical symbols, equations, Braille, computer acronyms, typefaces, handwriting, pictures: the Atlanta artist uses these elements as abstract shapes, allusive imagery "” and content. Text is as important as image, be it straightforward sentences and phrases or wordplay: the puns, anagrams and lists through which she gets at more elusive meanings than linear language allows.The parameters of her subject matter and worldview are, you might say, microcosmic.* Laxson's take on enduring themes "” love, sex, power and their manifestation in relationships, feminism, war, politics and philosophy "” all are nested in perception of matter, space and time shaped by the teachings of Georgia Tech physics professor David Finkelstein and her own ruminations about God. Her works are...
Dates: 2008

Identifying Information Concerning the Following Four Pages / Piper, Adrian., 1969

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Identifier: CC-30091-31489
Scope and Contents

The mimeographed page gives instructions for identifying the subsequent four pages of graph papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

I.H.F. / Cutts, Simon., 1993

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Identifier: CC-32384-33955
Scope and Contents

The title stands for Ian Hamilton Finlay. The page with I is collaged with a black rectangular paper. The page with H has marks where two collages could be placed. The page with F is collaged with a black paper with a hole on top that is the shape of a guillotine blade. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Il Libro Errante / Tudor, George\aka Ugo Carrega ; Carrega, Ugo ; Ferrari, Vincenzo., 1988

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Identifier: CC-55485-9999145
Scope and Contents

This profusely illustrated book includes a reproduction of a visual poem, "io qui adesso - respiro" that is held by the Sackner Archive (page 18). Also, some of Ferrari's drawings reproduced in this book appear to originate from Ferrari's "Artescrittura," an artist book held by the Sackner Archive. George Tudor ia Ugo Carrega's nom de plume. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988