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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

Livre Impubliable: Premiers Approches De La Ville, 1975

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-25897-26358
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispo, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Marble Papers], 1990

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-42811-44851
Scope and Contents

This book consists of black-brown marbled pages without text or attrbution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Measurism, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27842-28975
Scope and Contents

This book "plots the logarithms of social measurement against stimulus values in decibels. It finds the sensation magnitude to be a constant that depends on interaction." Laxson uses scientific statements in a poetic mixture with social perceptions and feelings. These pages are printed in her typical arrangement of mixing different fonts and font dimensions. She also includes five pages of naive line drawings of a leader, a visionary, traffic, a friend, and a muse/guardian that contrast in style and content to the scientific, sophisticated typographic pages. Both inside covers have been collaged from edge to edge with letterpressed printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

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

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

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

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

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

Otkyrtoje pismo (Skribentismen in der Provence), 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34429-36126
Scope and Contents

One of the pamphlets that consists of a printed folded papercard sheet depicts a colored photograph of Scherstjanoi and also includes the colophon. The other pamphlet consists of Table of Contents for the picture poems in the three books. The theme of the drawings is Scherstjanoi's hieroglyphic, interpretations of the landscapes of Aix-en-Provence and Arie after Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. The individual drawings are reminiscent of those found in the books by Albrecht Genin that are also hold by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Outa De Cobwebs: Premonitions, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-17426-17791
Scope and Contents

The cover is unique and was painted by Liz Was. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Paginations, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-36062-37836
Scope and Contents

This commissioned exhibition catalogue was sent to selected librairies and collectors to celebrate the ARLIS meetings in Williamstown in 1984. It itself is an artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Pam Spitzmueller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC1230
Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials from conservator and book artist Pamela Spitzmueller. It includes Pam’s bookbindings, conservation work (including Harvey's 1628 De motu cordis and the Nag Hammadi codices), research notebooks, personal journals, correspondence, and book arts scholarship. The collection also has records and keepsakes pertaining to the Paper and Book Intensive (PBI) and the Guild of Book Workers (GBW).

Dates: 1936-2020; Majority of material found within 1980 - 2009