Artist book (limited edition)
Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:
5 Jahre Edition Augenweide, 1991
12 Pages of Contemplation, 1978
According to Agius Mailart 2010, this is the 2nd edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
21: Celebrating 21 Years, 2010
67, 1984
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.
68-69 /72 (impressado), 1972
100 Coordinates of Violence, 1995
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.
494jul1250012:10 , 2000
1000 Coordinates of Violence, 2001
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.
A | B / Kozlowski, Jaroslaw., 1971
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.
A Few Drawings, 1975
A Little White Shadow, 2006
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.
A Little White Shadow, 2006
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.
A Meditation, 1986
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.
About Change (about), 1988
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.
Absolutely Incomprehensible, 1998
The pages depict photographs of lips mouthing words when the pages are flipped that are "absolutely incomprehensible." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
AEIOU Portfolio: Vowels: A Poem by Arthur Rimbaud , 1978
Aleator, 1989
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.
Alphabet, 1990
An Only Kid , 1990
This book dealing with the Passover song, Chad Gadya, was inspired by the work of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Anabasi Senza Nome: Poesa Visuale e Libro D'Artiste in Italia, 1997
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.
