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This issue served as the catalogue for the exhibition at Agnes Scott College Gallery, "Book Unbound." The Sackner Archive lent 22 works to the exhibition that was curated by Cathy Byrd. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Ruth Sackner contributed an essay to this issue titled "the Avant-Garde Book: Precursor of Concrete and Visual Poetry and the Artist's Book." Writing about Tom Phillips' A Humument, she stated "The blending of literature, poetry, and visual art is extremely successful in the work of Tom Phillips. In the main, his work derives from personal intellectual explorations, mythological languages, historic paintings, postcard images, and classical literature and poetry. These are presented in an amazing variety of artistic formats. Tom Phillips has used the book in particular to span the distinction between word and image, for as he says, "in a sense, because A Humument is less than what it started with, it is a paradoxical embodiment of Mallarme's idea that everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."" "Ending as a book" may very well be the credo of contemporary book artists who knowingly continue the ideas of the avant-garde and the concrete and vis-ual poets into our...

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This catalogue depicts and annotates books that Maret printed, some of whom were written by others. It is mentioned that Maret's books are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 50, plate 44, depicts Wingbook, an artist book in edition of 12 that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent two of Ely's books to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue mentions that works of Paula Hocks are in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent Binder's Metamorphoses Octet to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Part one of the book illustrates Charriere's paintings and part two his books and bindings. The Sackner Archive is listed under Public Collections of his works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Marvin Sackner curated an exhibition, held in the Archive for a meeting of the Art Librarians Association, of artists' books from the collection. Examples were selected to illustrate the classification system described by Johanna Drucker in "The Century of Artists' Books." The photographs were taken by Ruth Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent "Cries of Poindexter Village" to this exhibition pictured as plate 90. In the catalogue, Robinson describes this work as "a two-volume book I made for my son, Syndey. One volume is 'Schoolyard,' and the other is 'Bethlehem Journey,' a hinged book with a large cloth painting inside. Both volumes are about the voices of the children coming up in Poindexter and the characters who lived there and some of their stories." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent "Cries of Poindexter Village" to this exhibition. In the catalogue, Robinson (1940-2015) describes this work as "a two-volume book I made for my son, Syndey. One volume is 'Schoolyard,' and the other is 'Bethlehem Journey,' a hinged book with a large cloth painting inside. Both volumes are about the voices of the children coming up in Poindexter and the characters who lived there and some of their stories." The folder contains documentation for the exhibition, press releases and a thank you note thanking the Sackners for lending their piece to the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Jackman has subtitled the catalog "Assemblage and Unique Artist's Book: A story telling portfolio 1967 - 2015. "Two works held by the Sackner Archive are illustrated in this catalog. Ruth Sackner contributed a essay in the forward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of the Tom Phillips exhibition in the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania as borrowed from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue includes an essay and interview with Ely by Ian Boyden, Director of the Sheehan Gallery. The illustrations are reproduced from the book with the same title as the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was assembled by Sara Sackner on the occasion of Marvin Sackner's 70th birthday. It contains clips from the film "Concrete" that Sara produced about the Archive. Her dedication reads, " Oh Clips!/ Speak to me/ LONG and short/ Tell me / Where you want to go!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a copy of Drucker's catalogue essay for the exhibition "Symbols to Stories" at the Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue documents an exhibition of artist books (multiples) by Hutchins. The check list of books are printed four to a card that is slipped into woven page strips also with book listings. The cards illustrate three book installations. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding work by Hutchins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of Tom Phillips lecture and exhibition of A Humument at the Van Pelt Library. The Humument pages were lent by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.