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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 386 Collections and/or Records:

Honour Can Be Bought And Sold

 Item
Scope and Contents

Pictures and text taken from Francis Picabius' "Manifeste cannibale dans l'obsuri"

Dates: -

Horndeski Sampler # 1, 1993

 Item — Box 89: [Barcode: 31858072538188]
Identifier: CC-09590-9781
Scope and Contents

This work was commissioned by the Sackner Archive to include a sampler of Horndeski's work. The theme is a couple who appear on the top of the box reading in their library with the sky outside their windows reminiscent of Van Gough's Starry Night. The top of the box depicts a fragment of a music score by Vivaldi and the sides calligraphic text and diagrams on Michaelson's theory of light and distance; all paintings are landscapes that relate to the couple's activities near their house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Household Hints, 1980

 Item — Box 192: [Barcode: 31858072459625]
Identifier: CC-19883-20271
Scope and Contents

Deals with practices that make for a neat household. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Hystorian, 1992

 Item — Box 96: [Barcode: 31858072538113]
Identifier: CC-08288-8451
Scope and Contents

The title is a pun on "his;" feminine form; truth elusive. Clio, the muse of history, is the shadow-like figure in the collages. The book containing the collages is supported on the hanger structure. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

I Never Promised You A Cheeseburger, 1981

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-57595-51906
Scope and Contents

This work is an unlabeled box with unbound but numbered page scut in the form of an ellipse. Margarita Deidra Pietri is the Literary Administrator of Pietri's estate. His papers are held by Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, CUNY, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021 (212-772-4197) including material related to 'I Never Promised You a Cheeseburger.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Ich Du, 1968

 Item — Box 170: [Barcode: 31858072458320]
Identifier: CC-22072-22488
Scope and Contents

The pages are rendered with highly innovative typographic lay-out designs. One fold-out page unfolds from its two folds to form a square shaped print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Ich Finde], 1987

 Item — Box 180: [Barcode: 31858072459500]
Identifier: CC-57621-57276
Scope and Contents

There are pseudo-German baroque texts running througout the book that spawn figures or heads from the letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

In Camera, 1991

 Item — Box 79: [Barcode: 31858072538261]
Identifier: CC-09480-9668
Scope and Contents

The book object and box have the shapes of pentagons. Each side is perforated to serve as a camera obscura so that the viewer can visualize an image from the book object or outside of it through the opposite side of the pentagon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

In Parenthesis, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-20130-20525
Scope and Contents

The title is taken from a phrase in Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

In Rapporto A, 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-37412-39265
Scope and Contents

The calligraphy in this book is varied from page to page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Ininventabile: Romanzo Ipergrafico, 1990

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-06263-6378
Scope and Contents

Merante utilized a printed trade editioned booklet as the means for this artist book by writing on top of the printed text. In the first section, he left intact word clusters that relate to the Inistic art movement to which he belongs, e.g. ini, ange -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990