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Artist book (mass produced)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 242 Collections and/or Records:

Dictionaire Grapho-Grammatico / Dienst, Klaus Peter., 1968

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Identifier: CC-15386-15710
Scope and Contents

The author altered the pages of a German book with calligraphic and abstract markings with a design reminiscent of Tom Phillips' A Humument. However, the words from the original book do not have a poetic message on their own. Klaus Peter Dienst was born in 1936 and died in 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Die Zeitungsannonce Als Kunstwerk 1964/74 / Ulrichs, Timm., 1974

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Identifier: CC-40834-42811
Scope and Contents

Each page of this book depicts a false advertisement from a German newspaper that contains Timm Ulrichs' name. The advertisements are depicted on pages 178-183 of Ulrichs' exhibition catalogue, "Die Druckgrafik," 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Distress Signals / Neaderland, Louise., 1985

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Identifier: CC-41013-42992
Scope and Contents

The flip pages print the word "help" that also is visible on the foredge of the book. The cover gives the flag signals for the word help. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Dr. Anaconda's Solar Fun Club / Rosenblatt, Joe., 1978

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Identifier: CC-43363-45424
Scope and Contents

This book depicts Rosenblatt's zany obsessively detailed, pen and ink drawings reminiscent of the style employed by Mark Stamaty in "Who Needs Donuts?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Dreams / Shaw, Jim., 1995

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Identifier: CC-34877-36587
Scope and Contents

The artist writes the explanations for his dream drawings on each left-facing page. The realistic, surrealistic style drawings were rendered in graphite. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Duhring Duhring: nous etiens contre le pouvoir des mots contre le pouvoir / Wolman, Gil\aka Joseph Wolman., 1979

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Identifier: CC-52923-74063
Scope and Contents This work is depicted on pages 188-191 of Wolman's "Resume" (1981), a book held by the Sackner Archive. Ars Libri No.159 2011: This is Wolman's second artist book, published in the same year as "L'homme separe." "In October 1979, he exhibited all 64 plates of 'Duhring, Duhring,' an appropriation of Engels' Anti-Duhring' text, from which he excerpted a few words-nouns, individually enclosed in transparency mounts and arranged at regular intervals on the separate images of the heads of miscellaneous characters. In passing, they included Isou, mixed with Brezhnev and heads drawn by Wolman, thus defined by the noun associated with them, except that the photos recurred in a changed order and with different words. Once again, Wolman produced this large coloured wall fresco and a black and white version on cheap paper; a book with a tabloid or punk fanzine look about it, quite the opposite of the small edition of 150 of 'L'homme separe.' Keen for the book to be widely distributed, he...
Dates: 1979

East-West: A Book of Fortune / Cortright, Steven., 1986

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Identifier: CC-18568-18940
Scope and Contents

This is a fully illustrated book in which the text and illustrations deal with Asian society and history and how they relate to the West. The aphorisms are printed like fortune cookies and the fortune and cookie appear on every page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Ego / Masic, Radomir ; Todorovic M., 1981

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Identifier: CC-30576-32012
Scope and Contents

This book, which is divided into four sections, consists of black and white photographs of Masic striking different poses against a poster with the word, 'ego' printed in a dense, rectilinear grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Eleven Poems, 1974

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Identifier: CC-26881-27353
Scope and Contents

The typed carbon drawing entitled, "Conquest Display" that was once held by the Sackner Archive is depicted in this catalogue. The poem "Flange Blade" (1966) [24.5 x 14 cm] that is depicted in this book was autioned for $114,343 in Chistie's London in 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Eschenau Sutra / De Vries, Herman., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40108-42077
Scope and Contents

With the exception of a page with collaged dried leaves, the other pages of this book depict black on white or colored, calligraphic, concrete poetic drawings. The book was meant to accompanyve vries' exhibition, "herman de vries different & identical." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Espahor Ledet Ko Uluner!, 1973

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Identifier: CC-15061-15378
Scope and Contents

The text has the appearance of a novel but none of the words are intelligible. On the last page, there are two lines of calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Eunoia / Bok, Christian ; Perec G., 2001

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Identifier: CC-41075-43056
Scope and Contents

The book consists of two parts entitled eunoia and oiseau. Bok notes that Eunoia is the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels and means 'beautiful thinking.' Eunoia is a univocal lipogram in which each chapter restricts itself to a single vowel and owes a debt to Georges Perec. As Bok notes, all chapters also abide by subsidary rules. Oiseau is a French word that means bird and is the shortest word in the French language with all five vowels. It is an anagrammatic text. This copy is the fourth printing of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Eunoia / Bok, Christian ; Venright S ; Perec G., 2001

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Identifier: CC-41074-43055
Scope and Contents The book consists of two parts entitled eunoia and oiseau. Bok notes that Eunoia is the shortest word in the English language to contain all five vowels and means 'beautiful thinking.' Eunoia is a univocal lipogram in which each chapter restricts itself to a single vowel and owes a debt to Georges Perec. As Bok notes, all chapters also abide by subsidary rules. Oiseau is a French word that means bird and is the shortest word in the French language with all five vowels. It is an anagrammatic text. Although this is the 14th printing of the book, Bok struck through this phrase with ink and overwrote "1st Edition By Fiat." Steve Venright was the producer for the campact disc reading by Bok.The cover states" " 'Euonia', which means 'beautiful thinking', is the shortest English word to contain all five vowels. This book also contains them all, except that each one appears by itself in its own chapter. A unique personality for each vowel soon emerges: A is courtly, E is elegiac, I is...
Dates: 2001

Ewige Feile / Oehlen, Albert ; Bauer, Wolfgang., 1983

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Identifier: CC-60919-52924
Scope and Contents

This is an artist's book combining poems by Bauer and photographic collages by Oehlen on the theme of naturism, war, art, and youth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

fernsehen in nahsicht - statistik des fernsehbildes / Ulrichs, Timm., 1970

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Identifier: CC-52382-73505
Scope and Contents

This pages of this book reproduce the 625 lines and 520625 points of an image on a television screen depicted on the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Fertilete & Gastronomie au XXIIIe Siecle / Nadau, Jean-Pierre., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46147-48859
Scope and Contents

The first section, Gastonomie is subtitled "Extracts of a greenish guide 2263 - a selection of the best tables for greedy mandibles." It consists of six illustrations of constructivistic multi-colored designs and three pages of descriptive lists. the second section, Fertilite, consists of grids of 25 colored, fantastic creatures with made-up titles below each crature in the grid boxes. Nadau writes on the back cover "Twenty-third century: The humane vermin is positively auto destructive. Unnamable unknown plants send forth on toxic lemon and fertile humus putrifying ossuaries. Doped by the moist chemicals and radioactivity, the insects become very intelligent, taking (?) the relay, and by consequence constructing gastronomique restaurants." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006