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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 386 Collections and/or Records:

Retell the Tale, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-27844-28977
Scope and Contents

Laxson writes that the "title is inspired by D.H. Lawrence who said - Don't trust the artist. Trust the tale." And the tale is written by Laxson in brilliant twists, turns, shapes of typography and drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

R.O.T.W., 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21852-22263
Scope and Contents

The two masks are identical and represent a frontal image of a male face with glasses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Rubber Condom [I], 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-28106-29265
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of rubberstamped, random arrangements of varied colored letters and numbers that signify a metaphor for sexual orgasm. The two copies with identical cover and number of pages differ in the rubbrstamped letters and numbers/ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Rubber Condom vol. II, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-28111-29270
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of rubberstamped images of screws, nuts, bolts being fastened together and into a wall signifying a metaphor for sexual orgasm. The fold-out page is rubberstamped ying-yang sanitary napkin bag. It is likely that few copies were produced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Sample Dialog, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-15572-15899
Scope and Contents

A different type and colored ink was utilized for each page. According to Drucker, the book was printed from various typefaces at Bow and Arrow, in collaboration with Emily McVarish, each writing one line throughout, to display the type collection, and to teach Emily how to print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[Sara Ranchouse Publishing catalog], 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-02735-2778
Scope and Contents

Sally Alatalo is the publisher. Subscriptions to Duz Magazine, formerly DuDa Magazine, are offered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Scratched out book], 1984

 Item — Box 170: [Barcode: 31858072458320]
Identifier: CC-14219-14526
Scope and Contents

A French novel has been placed on a slanted base covered with finely inked cross hatched markings. The pages are folded, woven and sewn so that it is impossible to read the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Scribentische Alphabete, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36704-38520
Scope and Contents

The hard cover book includes 15 hieroglyphic drawings uilizing Scherstjanoi's own alphabet that is explained in the book. The poem-drawings are sound poems. Each card depicts a single "letter" of the alphabet. The calligraphy resembles that of Albrecht Genin and Werner Hartmann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Scriptionary, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-03069-3116
Scope and Contents

Seilles's two page letter to the Sackners details her trials of readjusting to life in France, her artistic work and concern for her health. She is pleased to hear that the Sackners saw her exhibition in the Janet Fleisher Gallery in Philadelphia. The collaged pages of found scraps of paper include a cutting from the Sackner Archive stationery. The loose sheets and the letter are inserted inside a fold of the final page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Segregation by Robert Penn Warren, 1996

 Item — Box 88: [Barcode: 31858072538220]
Identifier: CC-24183-24635
Scope and Contents Each page has been treated by routing out all the text horizontally with a rotating tool such that the cancellation process takes place word by word. This process is imperfect so that some of letters and fragments of words still remain. The spine of the book has been deliberately cracked to allow the book to be displayed in its opened state. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.In a letter (2001) to the Sackners, Beube made the following comments. In Segregation, a metamorphosis occurs, transforming the printed text to empty space, and the black ink to dust. Although entire words have become illegible, the remnants of broken letters and vowels can be seen and felt on the crater-like surfaces of the pages.Portions of the book's text have been removed by drilling out each word one page at a time, a process that fragments the book's content. Multiple pages become translucent white veils beneath which a number of underlying pages may be...
Dates: 1996

Seven Cold Spot Todos (Geometric), 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-15705-16034
Scope and Contents

All of these poems have been placed on the verso of the circular top of a commercial "Cold Spot Freezer Pail Pack." All are titled, e.g., Steady/Unsteady, Lapped/Overlapped, etc. with triangles, squares and circles to illustrate the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Shepherd , 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31173-32641
Scope and Contents

The book is without text and consists of images mainly deal with ropes. BabenkoI was born in 1970 in Krasnodar city of Russia. In 1996 he graduated from the Faculty of the Artistic and Technical Drawing of the Kuban State University. Since 1994 he has taken part in mail art projects. The basic spheres of his creative activity are visual poetry, artistbook and mail art. He has participated in approximately 300 art projects , in roughly 20 countries of the world. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Sign Rock River, 1989

 Item — Box 295: [Barcode: 31858072460748]
Identifier: CC-07478-7622
Scope and Contents

The calligraphic markings were modified from fossils discovered in a rock. The artist includes a photocopied photograph of "the rock that inspired the book - a language of fossils." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Social Butterfly, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-32259-33820