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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 368 Collections and/or Records:

Millilitermeer: Fragment 1990-1991, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-27029-27503
Scope and Contents

All the color illustrations of Andryczuk's drawings are tipped onto the pages. The prints and drawing are housed in an insert on the inside of the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Mnemostrats , 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-20017-20406
Scope and Contents Jean Clareboudt (1944-1997). The poetic ritualistic object consists of animal skin which is wrapped and tied around a collaged glass sheet, a handwritten shaped poem on paper, a tape cassette in a plastic pocket sewn onto cloth, a metal plate with a colored photograph of a mutilated man, and a folded newspaper tied with rope and sealed with a mud-like substance. It has the same sensability as works by the Vienna Action Group. Jean Clareboudt was born in 1944, worked in Paris, and died in an automobile accident in Turkey in 1997.Clareboudt studied from 1961 to 1965 at the Ecole supérieure d'arts graphiques Penninghen in Paris. In 1962 he met and studied at the Danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen , who he later visited in Denmark. In 1967 he studied with Etienne Martin at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Between 1986 and 1991, Jacobsen and his former student together a sculpture built in a former quarry in Tørskind. The Sculpture Park Tørskind Grusgrav at Egtved in Denmark...
Dates: 1974

Modulations, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-37080-38921
Scope and Contents

The pages of this booklet consist of a ruled grid with superimposed circles of 45 degree lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Muse Measures, 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-31911-33436
Scope and Contents

Ruth Laxson combines worldly, sophisticated statements of truth and wisdom with lively typographic, hand drawn and written designs. The book is divided into three sections: Theory, Figments and Other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Museum of Penny Candy, 2000

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-35181-36915
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of the candy object described by an ancient dictionary along with the candy itself. The presentation is reminiscent of early Joseph Kosuth works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

My Frankenstein / Corris, Michael ; Reinhardt A., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-19677-20064
Scope and Contents

The text and images are printed as dark grays or blacks on black such that their reading is made difficult. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

my pet concertinas, 1988

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-48234-69258
Scope and Contents

The booklet with the 26 treated pages has an abstract line drawing on its cover, the booklet with 69 treated pages has the roman numeral "II" on its cover with the title "Les Tres Riches Heures de Fleur." The first booklet describes and illustrates trips to Kenya, Verona, Dusseldorf with Phillips' assistant/bookbinder Pella Erskine Tulloch. He also describes and illustrates her musical tastes. The first sketch of her portrait appears on one of the pages; the Sackner Archive holds the completed painted portrait. In the booklet with 69 treated pages (concertina II), Phillips mentions drawing and painting Pella's portrait and comments on his own activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Natoblume, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-35788-37546
Scope and Contents

Andryczuk used found, antique sheet music as a the surface for his visual poetic, surrealistic drawings and collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Non mINImizziamo: Romanzo, 1990

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-06262-6377
Scope and Contents

Merante has utilized diverse calligraphic styles in this miniature bookwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Nulla dies sine Linea, 1999

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-33232-34862
Scope and Contents

This poster consists of several colored, photographic reproductions arranged in an irregular grid that were taken from Suarez Londono's artist book "Obra Sobre Paper." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Nulla dies sine Linea , 1999

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-33233-34863
Scope and Contents

This poster consists of several, colored photographic reproductions arranged in an irregular grid that were taken from Suarez Londono's artist book "Obra Sobre Paper." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Offset & Finely Pressed, 1985

 Item — Box 204: [Barcode: 31858072459955]
Identifier: CC-46150-48863
Scope and Contents

This book was exhibited at Thomas J. Watson Gallery, NYC in 1986 in "The Book Thought Through." There is a photographic reproduction of the unfolded book in the catalogue. Moore designed the book and Alexander composed the poem. The exhibition was curated by Edwina Evers of Califia Books who also wrote the introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Ogygia, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-58251-52592
Scope and Contents

The pages depict sections of maps encircled by a black ink border. The envelope is addressed to John Pyros. The card is an announcent tosubit to a correspondence art project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

One/Unique/Table, 1981

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19636-20022
Scope and Contents

This book was made in the summer of 1981 by developing artistic variations of some of the 500 tables as exhibited in Crozier's Table Project at Stempelplaats, Amsterdam, January 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981