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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Braille Book / McCarney, Scott., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-06725-6844
Scope and Contents

The book consists of braille pages altered with perforations and collaged with offset texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Completing the Circle: Artists' Books on the Environment / Beube D ; Denes A ; Freeman B ; Hiller S ; McCarney S ; Minsky R ; Nauman B ; Risseeuw J ; Ruscha E ; VanVliet C ; Vater R ; Nauman B ; Dove R ; Gilbert S ; Wirth K ; Edgar Heap of Birds ; Long R ; Fulton H ; Irland B ; Zimmerman P., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-18928-19306
Scope and Contents

This exhibition of works by American artists dealing with environmental issues was curated by Betty Bright who wrote a critical essay for the catalog. The Sackner Archive lent the artist book, Sisters of Menon, by Susan Hiller to the exhibition. The stapled pages are reviews of the exhibition. The catalog reproduces Rita Dove's print, "Ozone," which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Doubleday Hypertext #3 / Scott McCarney., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-06801-6921
Scope and Contents

McCarney removed the covers of this encyclopedia and constructed a back case from cardboard that he covered in cloth. The opened front exposes groups of collaged pages whose edges have been chiseled out to form a zig-zag pattern. The horizontal dimensions of these 12 groups of pages become progressively smaller from back to front. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Drunkard's Path: QuilText 1 / McCarney, Scott., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-06764-6883
Scope and Contents

The pages unfold into a rectangular quilt made from cut-out texts from eight books of different languages which had been discarded from public libraries. The texts are mounted onto braile paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Science and the Artist's Book / Barton CJ ; Davidson L ; Poehlmann JA ; McCarney S ; Kelm D ; Chen J ; Cutler-Shaw J ; Butler F ; Hutchins E ; Smith K ; Hastings PB ; Hofstra S ; Wirth K ; Ng K ; Hendricks G ; Deschamps F ; Zimmerman P ; Walker S ; Ely T., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-03018-3063
Scope and Contents

Curated by Carol Barton and Diane Shaw. For this exhibition "a select group of nationally recognized book artists was invited to create original works of art inspired by" volumes from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995