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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 370 Collections and/or Records:

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

[smile], 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Gu-Ha: [Barcode: 31858072610375]
Identifier: CC-34839-36547

Social Butterfly, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-32259-33820
Scope and Contents

This is a feminist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Standpoint, 1991

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-26175-26638
Scope and Contents

Each page has a grid of nine drawings of abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Surgery Its Principles and Practice, 1989

 Item — Box 111: [Barcode: 31858073143731]
Identifier: CC-05665-5772
Scope and Contents

The title of the book Nicasti used is "Surgery: Its Principles & Practice." The front cover is opened with rows of nails on the outside front cover. The back cover has an attached wooden box containing a shattered plexiglas cylinder and gauge. An abstract plexiglas form is built into the fastened pages of the book. A small sculptural element, composed of a collaged wooden fragment with rows of nails, contains a partial index of the medical text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Swedish Box, 1996

 Item — Box 201: [Barcode: 31858072459716]
Identifier: CC-28563-29848
Scope and Contents

The book is a diaristic account of Tavenner's trip to Sweden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Systemfehler, 2001

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-38996-40933
Scope and Contents

The title of this book is "System Error" and refers to the September 11 catastrophe at the World Trade Center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Tanberg, 1988

 Item — Box 303: [Barcode: 31858072460920]
Identifier: CC-23691-24138
Scope and Contents

The calligraphic text is collaged from ancient found writings. The sculpture serves both as a support and book object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Bill of Rights: The Eighth Amendment, 2002

 Item — Box 146: [Barcode: 31858072457991]
Identifier: CC-38927-40859
Scope and Contents

This amendment states that excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Minsky used the book Forlorn Hope: The Prison Reform Movement by Larry E. Sullivan to illustrate this point. He notes that during the 1990's the drive toward prison reform reversed. Prison libraries were closed, chain gangs and striped uniforms came back, and prison populations increased. The book is bound in stripes with the word "CONVICT" on the back cover, printed inkjet on canvas, and is chained to a miniature jail cell of painted wood.According to an interview of Richard Minsky by Bob Andelman on http://vimeo.com/36516102, only nine copies of this book object were produced even though 25 copies were planned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002