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Artist book (mass produced)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 242 Collections and/or Records:

Postal Seance: A Scientific Investigation into the Possibility of a Postlife Postal Existence, 2004

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Identifier: CC-42680-44698
Scope and Contents

This book attempts to answer the "eternal question: is there life after death? If there is, author and illustrator Henrik Drescher hypothesizes that inhabitants of the afterworld might be able to receive letters, using earthly mailboxes as portals...If the letters are not returned, it its presumed that the mail was successfully delivered to its intended recipient. 'Postal Seance' records the results of this important experiment, reproducing each of the letters sent to such luminaries as James Joyce, Buchminster Fuller, Dolly the Sheep and 49 others with notes on their arrival and return status."Two pages of artist stamps by Drescsher are provided so the readers can conduct their own postal seance experiments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Psychopts / Hell, Richard ; Prince, Richard., 2008

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Identifier: CC-60264-10003264
Scope and Contents MonoBooks: Synopsis: This artist s book emerged from a joint project between the writer/musician Richard Hell and the painter Christopher Wool and focuses on their mutual interest in experiences associated with reading. The authors create images using a selection of word pairings that are both conceptually estranged yet subliminally connected. The result is by turns a reading and a non-reading book which balances precariously between the worlds of rational ordered sense and the realm of polymorphous chaotic association.About the Author: Richard Hell is a musician and writer residing in New York. He was a seminal figure during the emergence of punk in the 1970s, leading up to the release of the influential album Blank Generation (1977) by Richard Hell and the Voidoids. He retired from music in 1984 to devote himself to writing. He is the author of two novels, Go Now, and Godlike, as well as a number of other books. Christopher Wool is an artist living and working in New York City...
Dates: 2008

Reading Red / Tuttle, Richard ; Bernstein, Charles., 1998

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Identifier: CC-44608-46771
Scope and Contents

This book was issued on the awards presentation at Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, on December 11, 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Real Fiction / Stokes, Telfer ; Douglas, Helen., 1987

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Identifier: CC-41184-43166
Scope and Contents

According to the Stokes' WEB site: "Taking as a starting point the incongruous space and shadows made by the open pages of the book, the process of opening or "entering " is explored as one would an unknown dwelling. This process of exploration develops into the construction of a room within the book and then leads from the core of this interior place outwards, as fusion between inside and outside. Interspersed, a constructive text hovers and casts shadows on the open pages as an active commentary and associative dialogue on the 'construction .'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Reflexionen im Versuchsgeblet K 1993 / Claus, Carlfriedrich., 1993

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Identifier: CC-54868-990298
Scope and Contents

The book reads from back to front like a Hebrew book. The signiture of Claus on the front cover is a facsimile. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Rest 1 Rest 2, 1971

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Identifier: CC-28284-29459
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition of the book which is in part a fascimile of the artist's sketchbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Rough Ride / Tremlett, David., 1985

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Identifier: CC-01263-1294
Scope and Contents

Published on the occasion of an exhibition by the artist at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Schreibpegel Bleckede / Fischer, Lili ; Jappe, Georg., 1986

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Identifier: CC-11380-11596
Scope and Contents

The book begins with photographs of landscapes followed by images of some of these landscapes rendered in a calligraphic form. Abstract drawings and concrete poems are also printed in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

See / Walker, Todd., 1978

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Identifier: CC-32338-33905
Scope and Contents

This book consists of colored, photographs of female nudes that have been altered in the development process along with documentary text. The front cover and pages adjacent to the cover print a concrete poem, "See." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Selected Walks 1979-1996 / Long, Richard., 1999

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Identifier: CC-37406-39259
Scope and Contents

Walks by Long through the countryside are described in short phrases recreating the geography in texts that are handwritten in upper case letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Several Steps from the Rope / Beining, Guy R.., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40976-42955
Scope and Contents

Each page of this book reproduces a visual poetic collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Shorelines / Rosenblatt, Suzanne., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03417-3473
Scope and Contents

Rosenblatt makes expressionistic line drawings in which the calligraphic text is integrated but not part of the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Shririm / Lin, Hilla Lulu., 2000

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Identifier: CC-38890-40816
Scope and Contents

This innovative book is printed in highly stylized, Hebrew fonts with red, black and grey typographic elements. The translucent pages render a three dimensional aspect to the reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Situazione Corrente / Ori, Luciano., 1971

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Identifier: CC-52620-73756
Scope and Contents

The pages depict photographs of a locomotive pulling passenger railroad cars. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971