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Includes reproductions of "The Valentine Mystery" 1981 and "I Am A Painter" 1984, unique bookworks held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Krystyna Wasserman curated the exhibition and wrote an introductory essay. The Sackner Archive lent "La Prose du Transsiberien et de la Petitie Jehanne de France" by Sonya Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars. The books are illustrated on the right facing pages and each artist wrote a personal explanation of her work on the left facing page. Sandra Jackman, one of the contributing artists, provided a travel notebook from her journey to the middle east. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This package comprises a kit of source material given to teachers. The Sackner Archive lent Sonya Delaunay's book, "Transsiberian Railroad" to this exhibition. The laminated print is an English translation of part of the poem with a concrete presentation owing to the inventive employment of typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Clive Phillpot contributed an essay, "Reading Artists' Books," in which he wrote that "Visual artists have explored and exploited the nature and structure of the book. both in former times and with renewed vigor more recently, with the result that the book has come to be appreciated widely as an extremely fruitful and subtle multidimensional means for the transmission of human experience. In addition, artists have come to demand of their readers that they develop their ability to utilize various forms of reading, whether retinal or tactile, whether linear, peripheral, oscillatory, or random, in order to be able to engage fully with the content embedded in each book." Books by Carothers, Ligorano, and Mabe were lent to this exhibition by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains review of book works by Nicijian Banks at Galerie Steinmetz, Amsterdam by Peter Scott. Orshi Drozdik's exhibition at Tom Cugliani's Gallery is reviewed by Nancy Spector in which "Pulmonary Consumption," an assemblage, is mentioned and depicted. This work is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition with the same title was accompanied by this set of artist postcards which in some cases represented the book exhibited and in others an independent work. The exhibition was curated by Judith Hoffberg and Joan Hugo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Book labeled 1932-1959: 128 pages; book labeled 1960-1967: 84 pages; book labeled 1968-1979: 118 pages; book labeled 1980-2001: 184 pages; book labeled Turissmo-El Dorado: 50 pages.Amazon .com: This is a five volume boxed set with close to five hundred illustrations. This is a pictorial work of ink drawings created from found images of advertising, newspapers, tourist brochures, and official prints. Exploring a wide-range of Peruvian life, culture, tourism, economics, politics and society. "I began the selection process in 1999 and finished in 2001. You can imagine how many images I must have seen. Now, there exist distinct criteria that define the working process. The perspective is predetermined by a search for emblematic images, by an idea that one has regarding a history. One comes with a pre-existing reading of the history although, in the physical moment of contact with the documents, the sensitive relationship with them may result in the modification of the selection...

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Gunther recounts a visit to the Sackner Archive in 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue is illustrated with images of each one of the works offered for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article about Ruth Laxson notes that she received the first prize for her new book "A Hundred Years of : LEX FLEX" from the Pyramid Atlantic Book Conference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Lists several recent publications and recordings that are reisssues of older ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Gloria Helfgott. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes a photograph of panelists of the symposium "Books As Art" sponsored by the Boca Museum and FAU Friends of the Libraries. The Sackners participated in the panel and lent several books to the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Essay by Jan Avgikos, "How to Read an Artist's Book." Reproduces Richard C's "The Private Life of the Rabbit," Ruth Laxson's "Earth Score" and "Two Letter Words," all held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Richard Minsky and sponsored by the US Information Agency for an African tour. "Ant Pudding," an artist book by Jack Hirschman was loaned to the exhibition by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.