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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:

12 Pages of Contemplation, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-04658-4745
Scope and Contents

According to Agius Mailart 2010, this is the 2nd edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

21: Celebrating 21 Years, 2010

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Identifier: CC-52579-73712
Scope and Contents The book celebrates 21 years of the Archetype Press and relates to the legal drinking age of 21. Each page is a typographic recipe for an alcholic beverage. It was produced by undergraduate students at the Art Center College Archetype Press under the direction of Gloria Kondrup. The Sackner copy of the book is the hard cover limited edition version. The other copies are soft cover books. Interview with Gloria Kondrup, Director of Archetype Press in The Dotted Line, official blog of Art Center College of Design: Interviewer: What do you see in the future for Archetype Press? Kondrup: "Unfortunately, the foundry metal type will eventually wear out, become lost or destroyed. But as education continues the digital march forward, the process of letterpress printing will hopefully remain a valuable technology in the study of typography and language, and conventional printing process will continue through the integration photopolymer plates that are digitally created. I see us moving...
Dates: 2010

67, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-32497-34073
Scope and Contents

The following text is written one word to a page as follows, T.S. asked me to design a book containing as many pages as my age was. I promised immediately. "When is your birthday," he asked. I told him. "Don't wait too long." I was determined to keep the amount of pages to my present age. So it was no use to try to delay proceedings. I regret not to be any younger, the first time in my life. Sit was a member of the Boekie Woekie artist group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

100 Coordinates of Violence, 1995

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-34625-36326
Scope and Contents

The book is punctured in its center with a hole to simulate that is a round circle that toward the end of the book becomes raged as a simulation of a bullet hole. Each page contains an identical landscape with the bullet hole placed above the horizon. At the bottom of each page are the different coordinates, e.g. 51o 21'N x 12o 25'E, that symbolize the location where violence took place. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

1000 Coordinates of Violence, 2001

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-48748-69782
Scope and Contents

The book is the editioned version of Maher's original bookwork "100 Coordinates of Violence" which is held by in the Sackner Archive. It was published to coincide with an installation at Kunstbuncker in Nurnberg, Germany. The original book consisted of pages shot through by bullets. Now the 1000 coordinates that symbolize the location where violence took place are listed on each page. An afterward lists several pages of "better informed, better organized and more selflessly dedicated curmudgeons... to fuel your own investigations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

A | B / Kozlowski, Jaroslaw., 1971

 Item — Box 625: [Barcode: 31858073143897]
Identifier: CC-37066-38907
Scope and Contents

This book consist of the capital letters A and B separated by a vertical line being rotated frame by frame, one frame to a page, in a circular motion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

A Little White Shadow, 2006

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Identifier: CC-55918-9999385
Scope and Contents

The original of this book was published in 1889 by an author whose name was cancelled with white paint by Kuefte. The text is cancelled on each page with solid white paint leaving some words of the text intact to form a new poetry analogous to Tom Phillips' "A Human Document." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

A Little White Shadow, 2006

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Identifier: CC-44916-47088
Scope and Contents

The original of this book was published in 1889 by an author whose name was cancelled with white paint by Kuefte. The text is cancelled on each page with solid white paint leaving some words of the text intact to form a new poetry analogous to Tom Phillips' "A Human Document." Mistakingly filed under Kuefte, Mary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

A Meditation, 1986

 Item — Box 607: [Barcode: 31858073143541]
Identifier: CC-25341-25797
Scope and Contents

The text is taken from The Song of Songs 4:6. The perforations on three of the pages are pairs of Hebrew 'yod's' in a large typeface.' The text is based upon the phrase, "In the heat of the day {life}, God is a protective shadow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

About Change (about), 1988

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Identifier: CC-07412-7556
Scope and Contents

Laxson's work combines the visual and the verbal poetically, sensitively and intellectually. She works in the book and print format, and although the pieces are generally small in scale, the power and beauty of the text, line, typography and message combine to create strong, meaningful work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Absolutely Incomprehensible, 1998

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Identifier: CC-43476-45540
Scope and Contents

The pages depict photographs of lips mouthing words when the pages are flipped that are "absolutely incomprehensible." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Aleator, 1989

 Item — Box 36: [Barcode: 31858072460979]
Identifier: CC-09200-9381
Scope and Contents

Heimbach used the first page of a German newspaper and transferred letters from the words on this page to the 24 pages of his book such that in the printed, final form, the words are read through layers in three dimensions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

An Only Kid , 1990

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-25606-26064
Scope and Contents

This book dealing with the Passover song, Chad Gadya, was inspired by the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Anabasi Senza Nome: Poesa Visuale e Libro D'Artiste in Italia, 1997

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Identifier: CC-29320-30681
Scope and Contents

The text deals with historic aspects of artist books, concrete poetry, and visual poetry in Italy during the twentieth century with illustrations from the seveties and eighties. The collage is tipped-in to the page facing the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997