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Artist book (citation)

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 845 Collections and/or Records:

Commentary: An exhibition of work by Sylvia Ptak / Ptak, Sylvia., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43110-45165
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The artist comments on the rare books and manuscripts in the library by interfacing pages from the texts with fabric threads with language-like lines that mirror the original works. These "carefully plucked lines, configured into paragraphs and columns, recall the elaborate handwriting found in the manuscripts." Another artist also in the Sackner Archive, Frances Trumbley, also uses threads to create callikgraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Concrete Poetry / Timm Ulrichs., 1972 - 1977

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Identifier: CC-43835-45931
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This work is made from concrete in the shape of a book. The front molded letters read "Concrete Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972 - 1977

Concrete Poetry / Timm Ulrichs., 1972 - 1977

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Identifier: CC-43835-45931
Scope and Contents

This work is made from concrete in the shape of a book. The front molded letters read "Concrete Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972 - 1977

Contemporary Artists' Books from the New Germany / Gruner, Reinhard; Tarlatt U; Kowalski J; Deisler G; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Gunther H; Scherstjanoi V; KIrsch S; Wohmann G; Janson J., 1995

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Identifier: CC-28904-30230
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Gruner mainly describes five artist books published by Henry Gunther since 1991 under the imprint, Edition Balance. These books involved silkscreen prints and etchings by the artists who participated with tirage of 35 copies. Also mentions that the Sackner Archive holds copies of books published by Edition Augenweide and Uni/ vers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Contemporary Book Arts at Carleton / Barron S ; Benes BL ; Bigus R ; Drucker J ; Gallo P ; Hamady W ; Minsky R ; King S ; VanHorn E ; Zelevansky P ; Ruscha E ; McCarney S ; Osborn K ; Jackman S ; Haynes R ; Sackner RK., 1987

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Identifier: CC-18465-18837
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Curated by Betty Bright who acknowledged Ruth Sackner and others in aiding the preliminary research for the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Contemporary Polish Book Art / Rypson P ; Czerwinska J ; Werbachowska A., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29928-31319
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In the introduction, Rypson traces the history of Polish artists books from the 1960's to the 1990's, particularly in the way in which Polish politics influenced the creation and distribution of the works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Contemporary Polish Book Art / Rypson P ; Czerwinska J ; Werbachowska A ; Tarasin J ; Rogala D., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27489-28537
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The exhibition catalogue is divided into three parts, viz., Artist Books, Children's Book Illustration, and Book Illustrations. Piotr Rypson provided an introductory essay to this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Coracle Press Archive / Cutts S ; Torok K ; Fidler M ; Mills S ; Finlay IH ; Phillips T ; Williams J., 1985

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Identifier: CC-18546-18918
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David Gray's letter to Marvin Sackner offers the Coracle Press printed archive from 1974 to the present for sale to the Sackners. This material was subsequently acquired by the Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Corona Palimpsest Video/book installation by Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese / Drucker, Johanna ; Ligorano N ; Reese M., 1995

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Identifier: CC-40445-42416
Scope and Contents

This is a critique of Ligorano and Reese's "Corona Palimpsest." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Criptogrommi e Scritture Etrusche 1989-1996 / Fedi, Fernanda ; Ferri G ; Isgro E ; Accame V., 1996

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Identifier: CC-37929-39809
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The Sackner Archive is listed among the "Archivi e Centro di Documentazione." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Cromanzo / Diotallevi, Marcello., 1983

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Identifier: CC-15816-16147
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983