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Artist book

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 377 Collections and/or Records:

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

Interrupted Reading, 1983

 Item — Box 273: [Barcode: 31858072460904]
Identifier: CC-59080-57393
Scope and Contents

This book object is the first artwork of Jackman's that the Sackners purchased. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Intimations of Infinity: An Homage to Mark Tobey, 1993

 Item — Box 306: [Barcode: 31858073143608]
Identifier: CC-27500-28550
Scope and Contents

Each drawing is affixed to the right hand side of the black paper page. Straus produces a dazzling display of drawings in the spirit of the American abstract expressionist/calligraphic painter, Mark Tobey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

iRiS, 1996

 Item — Box 176: [Barcode: 31858072459336]
Identifier: CC-27531-28597
Scope and Contents

The theme of this work is the Iris flower and most pages depict drawn abstractions of the flower in gray-black colors. The latter is an unexplained contradiction to the purple colors of the flower. The folder enclosing the pamphlets, pages, and drawings is inserted into an enclosure in the rectangular shaped earthy, ceramic vase which has another round enclosure for an artificial Iris flower with its stem. A polaroid photograph depicts the process of how the drawing was made - by rubbing the flower over paper to form the word "Iris" from its pigments.Also designated No.2/Tome 11 in the series ARTCI-BLE Petits Dictionnaires Portatifs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Iron Fist in Yr Yellow Chakra, 1998

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-29776-31154
Scope and Contents This book is composed of calligraphic drawings, one to a card, that repetitively presents the title phrase in extremely varied letter styles and sizes using ink, paint, and graphite. Chakra is a word from Yoga that refers to any of the six points along the spine that are supposed to contain certain powers, persinified by Gods and able to be released through the proper exercises. The title phrase is occasionally modified with another word, e.g., "Iron Fuckin Fist In Yr Fuckin Yellow Fuckin Goddamn Chakra." The cards are a masterpiece of experimental calligraphy. The green corrugated cardboard box holding the cards was made by Sloy's husband, Nicholas. Richard Ovenden, Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, described the preparation of the cards by sloy. "The artist put blank paper through a press wiha clean plate to create a border indentation (the blank plate mark) to make the work look like an engraving. This technique was used by printers in the 19th...
Dates: 1998

[It was so sweet...], 1996

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-16388-16738
Scope and Contents

A thank you presentation from Doner to the Sackners in the form of a wedge shaped book, tied and wrapped, containing examples of Doner's ideogramatic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Italia, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09886-10082
Scope and Contents

The collage depicts Hansen's typical image of Venus of Willendorf made with gold foil. The outline material is the basis of the collage on the final page. The two center pages are photographic colored portraits of Hansen, one of which is a double exposure showing Hansen within his studio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990