Artist book
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 377 Collections and/or Records:
I Never Promised You A Cheeseburger, 1981
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.
Ich Du, 1968
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.
[Ich Finde], 1987
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.
Illustrated Dictionary of Saints, 1983
In Camera, 1991
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.
In Parenthesis, 1992
The title is taken from a phrase in Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
In Rapporto A, 1976
The calligraphy in this book is varied from page to page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ininventabile: Romanzo Ipergrafico, 1990
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.
Interrupted Reading, 1983
This book object is the first artwork of Jackman's that the Sackners purchased. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Intimations of Infinity: An Homage to Mark Tobey, 1993
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.
iRiS, 1996
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.
Iron Fist in Yr Yellow Chakra, 1998
[It was so sweet...], 1996
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.
Italia, 1990
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.
