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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1485 Collections and/or Records:

Strange Things Begin To Happen When a Meteor Crashes in the Arizona Desert, 2001

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-48716-69748
Scope and Contents

The pages are printed in grey ink with half of the vertical page with a different font printed upside down. The left side of the page is a Basinski poem and the right side a Basinski story. Abstract forms and illustrations are interspersed on the pages. The Sackner Archive also holds a deluxe copy of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Strawberry Sunday, 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-36572-38374
Scope and Contents

The images accompanying the text are mostly unrelated to each other. The authors are Francis Osowski and Leonie aka Catherine Bourbon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Stream of Consciousness / Sung, Liz ; Atwood M., 2006

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Identifier: CC-48317-69342
Scope and Contents

The texts used in this book were written by Margaret Atwood, Nick Hornby, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others. Stored with Archetype Press material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Stripe Tags / Bellingham, David., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-24081-24533
Scope and Contents

The collaged elements on the page are embroidered last names in various colors of artists who have utilized stripes in their paintings, e.g., Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Blinky Palermo, Bridget Riley, and Daniel Buren. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Substitution [Deluxe Edition] / Mairey, Francoise., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-05748-5856
Scope and Contents

This work consists of typed graphic compositions based upon piano execises. The single unique typing in this book is signed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Subvers: Two Phonographies. No.5 / Herman Damen., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-32424-33998
Scope and Contents

The booklet and its pages are circular shaped. This copy of the periodical has an extra booklet purchased subsequently to the initial acquisition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Sud / Caruso, Luciano ; Caruso, Michele Maria., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33917-35589
Scope and Contents

The book mark is typical of Caruso's work. The poem is printed in letterpress and the unconventional art is the light blue handprint of Michele Maria, Luciano's daughter, with a calligraphic notation is black ink above it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Suede Bleue / Gette, Paul-Armand., 1965

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Identifier: CC-10595-10801
Scope and Contents

Although the tirage for this book is 20 copies, each book is unique since the letters of the text formed from different colored papers have been individually cut with a scissors by Gette. These letters have varied calligraphic styles and dimensions. The pages consist solely of text and the theme relates to Gette's wife and their vacations in her Swedish birthplace. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Summer 1978: One Day I Meet You / Splettstosser, Peter J.., 1978

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Identifier: CC-02994-3039
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a typewritten list of German cities and the time of arrival or departure of trains between them and Paris (rubberstamped in blue ink). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Sunflower Power: Performance Poem for Porto2001, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-42923-44966
Scope and Contents

This work was featured in an exhibition curated by Fernando Aguiar, "Imaginaros Da Ruptura = Poeticas Visualis" held in Douro e Vale do Coa, Portugal. The surfaces of the prints in this book are on glossy paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Super Vision / Craigie, Peter., 1982

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Identifier: CC-17291-17653
Scope and Contents

The visual art in this book deals with the theme of eyes. This copy has a varient additional cover covering the original cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Super Vision / Craigie, Peter., 1982

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Identifier: CC-17292-17654
Scope and Contents

The visual art in this book deals with the theme of eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Sure As Death / Rowe, Willyum., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-29803-31182
Scope and Contents

Pages are either blank with a single phrase at the bottom or have a small black, tan & white image and caption centered in the upper half along with a phrase at the bottom of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Surveils / Maher, Miranda., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-34670-36371
Scope and Contents

The author indicated that the "book" is a translucent envelope containing six "certificates" with texts addressing: Surveillance & Knowledge, Surveillance & Purity, Surveillance & Reciprocity, Surveillance & Glamour, and Surveillance & Absurdity. In between the certificates are the SurVeils - masks of onionskin paper with different life-sized images of closed eyes with little eye-holes: To hide your open eyes and aid in "surveilling your surveillors." To reinforce the deception, at the bottom of each veil is rubberstamped "my eyes are closed." Adhesive dots can be attached to the eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Swarms, 2010

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-51532-72630
Scope and Contents

The images in this book are letraset collages; the fold-out depicts the "untitled" letraset collage in the collection of the Sackner Archive. The loose sheet is an Beaulieu's explanation as to why he prefers letraset and typing to computer generated art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010