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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2661 Collections and/or Records:

Art That Speaks Volumes / Ruhling, Nancy; Helfgott G., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-03484-3541
Scope and Contents

Review of Helfgott's exhibition "Space In Hand" at New York Institute of Technology, Westbury. Includes repriduction of "In Camera," a work lent by the Sackner Archive to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

art-ti-facts / Robertson, Kirk ; Gordon C., 1985

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Identifier: CC-34207-35894
Scope and Contents

The fragmented concrete poems in this book are reminiscent of those by Adriano Spatola. The cover was made by Coco Gordon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Art Works [Japanese] III. No.3 / Tanaka N ; Tobari T., 1991

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Identifier: CC-26764-27234
Scope and Contents

The box containing the objects, collages, prints, etc. has the visual appearance of a book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Arte Contemporanea Portuguesa; Portuguese Contemporary Art / Hatherly A., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-26381-26848
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was devoted to contemporary Portuguese art in the Luso-American development foundation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Arte / Vittore Baroni., 1981

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Identifier: CC-21843-22254
Scope and Contents

Book cannot be opened. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Arte / Vittore Baroni., 1981

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Identifier: CC-21843-22254
Scope and Contents

Book cannot be opened. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Artist Depicts the Bill of Rights in a World Out of Joint / Blumenthal, Ralph; Minsky R., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38997-40934
Scope and Contents

Richard Minsky is interviewed for his exhibition of the "Bill of Rights" at Louis K. Meisel Gallery. The series in entirety is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Artiste et Le Livre, L' / Butor M ; Dorny B ; Ashbery J ; Scanreigh JM ; Clareboudt J ; VanHouten K ; Lijn L ; Matsutani ; Zelevansky P ; Ben., 1991

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Identifier: CC-27224-27701
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was divided into three parts, Le Livre D'Artiste (curated by Merielle Etignard who visited Sackner Archive in 1996), Le Livre Illustre, and Le Carnet D'Artiste. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Artists Anonymous: A: The end of A.R. Penck; B: An unknown song of Robert Reichstein , 1998

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Identifier: CC-33117-34743
Scope and Contents

The first page of the A book depicts 25, nearly identical, stick figures draw in ink in the style of A.R. Penck with collaged, round, red paper stickers for the heads. The heads have facial features drawn in ink. The verso has one red paper stick collaged onto the page. Each subsequent page has one less stick figure and one additional sticker on the verso. The final page of the book has one stick figure and 25 stickers collaged onto the verso. In Book B, red and green, round paper stickers are collaged onto most pages with ink, horizontal lines to emulate music scores. On other pages, surrealistic animal-like shapes, cut from music scores, are collaged onto the pages with music-like scores. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Artists Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature / Klima, Stefan ; Drucker J ; Higgins D ; Lyons J ; Phillpot C ; Lippard L ; Carrion U ; Celant G., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32964-34583
Scope and Contents

This book consists of five essays on artists books with extensive footnotes and a detailed bibiliography. Lucy Lippard is quoted on Artist Books as "not books about art, or on artists, but books as art. They can be all words, all images, or combinations thereof. At best they are a lively hybrid of exhibition, narrative, and object." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Artists Books in the Ginsberg Collection / Abbott E ; Stein G ; Barton CJ ; Campbell K ; Charriere G ; King R ; Fisher R ; d'Arbeloff N ; Drucker J ; Hutchins A ; Ely T ; Weier D ; Rothenberg J ; Neruda P ; O'Banion N ; Chen J ; Scobey P ; Spector B ; Helfgott G ; Kelm D ; Crombie J ; Queneau R ; Kyle H ; McCarney S ; King S ; Osborn K ; Olson T ; Hamady W ; Poehlmann JA ; Schwartzott C ; Share S ; Silverberg RA ; Tetenbaum B ; Smith K ; Walker A ; Wolf A ; Boshoff W., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30529-31957
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Jack M. Ginsberg and David M. Paton and was divided into two sections: International Artists' Books and Book-Objects and South African Artists' Books and Book-Objects. Ginsberg contributed a personal essay on collecting artists' books and the nature of the book. A bibliography, complete index and a list of exhibitions are included. The catalogue consists of an annotated listing of books and book objects without illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996