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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1534 Collections and/or Records:

Blends / Strangulensis, Ficus., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28432-29696
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a handwritten column of words or wordlike forms which shows progressive alteration from a primary word to a new one or an image. Examples include among others 1) young - void, 2) falls - mist, 3) ripe - shoe, 4) seed - image of a tree. This has been termed "transmorfation" by Ficus Strangulensis and has also been utilized by other poets, notably Crag Hill, jw curry, and Geof Huth. The transmorfations are composed in a computer and laser printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Blick-Book / Klassen, Norbert., 1994

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Identifier: CC-57609-10000882
Scope and Contents

The two copies of this book differ in the content of the Bliick pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Bodh[i] Circu[it]s / Alg[a]e{bra] D[ra[in]] / White, Derek., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42725-44744
Scope and Contents Basinski reviewed this book on the WEB: "Bodh[i] Circu[it]s / Alg[a]e[bra] D[ra[in]] continues work that Derek White has done in his previous books: 23 Text Tiles and Mining in the Black Hills both 2003 from Calamari Press. This is expansive visual poetry and as that something needed. Guilty, visual poets are sometimes of repeating themselves via style and form and medium but you won't find any of that in Derek White. He is the most expansive visual poet I've read in some time. Each page in fact is a new field of work, a new form, form of forms, and he has not abandoned the word but has each time found it fresh and new again and is able to ornament it in balance with visuals, various forms, lines images, color, type, print, hands, photocopy, and conglomeration, a constellation cooperation of mediums germinates and generates into a splendidly babbling work. And with babble I mean only a compliment because babble is the multi-sound/dimensions one hears, as sweet delight, when...
Dates: 2004

Bodies: More than 19,476 Combinations / Grieger, Susan., 1976

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Identifier: CC-51246-72334
Scope and Contents

This book consists of photographs of a naked man and woman cut horizontally into four sections so that it is possible to combine the bodies (from back and front) in "more that 19,476 combinations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Bonhommes Faits avec des Elastiques / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 1995

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Identifier: CC-05404-5507
Scope and Contents

The collaged element on the title page is a rubber band that has been used to create images on a photocopying machine that are depicted on the pages of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Book 5: Flip Book / Depew, Wally ; Depew L., 1968

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Identifier: CC-51149-72236
Scope and Contents

Linda Depew did the linoleum block print on the cover. The pages mostly depict a 2 x 2 square or triangular grid with the stencilled letters L, O, V, and E as well as in some instances a blank square placed in various combinations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Book #10 / Marcus, Aaron., 1971

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Identifier: CC-41870-43865
Scope and Contents

Marcus greatly enlarged the letters of the words in this book to bleed across the pages to make the text illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Book 11: Square K / Depew, Wally., 1969

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Identifier: CC-16088-16431
Scope and Contents

Each page has a stencilled capital K within or slightly outside of a square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Book 17b: Impressions (Sand) / Depew, Wally., 1970

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Identifier: CC-16091-16434
Scope and Contents

All the pages are blank except for one with an abstract or letter collage composed of sand along with two pages of typewritten documentation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Book 18: The Purple R / Depew, Wally., 1970

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Identifier: CC-16089-16432
Scope and Contents

This is Depew's first book with rubberstamped pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Book 20: Pornbook / Depew, Wally., 1970

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Identifier: CC-16090-16433
Scope and Contents

The images of bodies, hands, and genitalia are deliberately grainy making interpretation difficult. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Book 22: Black & White Book 1 / Depew, Wally., 1971

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Identifier: CC-51141-72228
Scope and Contents

Black or white paint was applied to a page and while wet was pressed onto the facing page causing the two to stick together. The physical separation by Depew or the reader of the facing pages can cause tearing of the paper. Some copies have no separations, others multiple separations between the pages. Most covers have black and white paint on blue paper, few are on brown paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Book 23: The Five Cent Scarlet Ink Book 1 / Depew, Wally., 1971

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Identifier: CC-51124-72209
Scope and Contents

The publisher is also designated PN2 experiment. The top long side of the pages have red ink stained at their edges; there is no text except for the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Book 24: The Five Cent Scarlet Ink Book 2 / Depew, Wally., 1971

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Identifier: CC-51121-72206
Scope and Contents

The publisher is also designated PN2 experiment. The short side of the pages have red ink stained at their edges; there is no text except for the colophon.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Book 25: The Five Cent Scarlet Ink Book 3 / Depew, Wally., 1971

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Identifier: CC-51127-72212
Scope and Contents

The publisher is also designated PN2 experiment. The cover with a red ink stain in its center has been perforated through the center with a thin sharp instrument like a staight pin such the first underlying pages are also perforated. The remaining pages are dimpled through their red center stains. There is no text except for the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971