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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 238 Collections and/or Records:

Che/Loro, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30539-31968
Scope and Contents

This book is dedicated to the memories of politically murdered Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and Jorge 'Loro' Vazquez Viana. Each page can be separated and placed in a grid to reveal the completed image of these two men. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Chimaeren, 1994

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Identifier: CC-16102-16445
Scope and Contents

This is a manuscript in progress. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Chimaren, 1994

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Identifier: CC-27034-27508
Scope and Contents

This edition contains original works by international poets-artists. Includes an artist book containing rebuses by Dencker; the galley proof of this book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Chronographie Terrestre (Work in Progress), 2004

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Identifier: CC-49628-70680
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces pages from Haack's "Apokalyse" and "Kunstlerbuch" among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

ChronographieTerrestre (Work in Progress): We Work by Day and Fly by Night, 1988

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Identifier: CC-29652-31027
Scope and Contents

The image in the drawing accompanying this deluxe edition of the book is adapted from or served as an earlier study for the fourth reproduced drawing in the book. Its design consists of a reproduced drawing from the work with calligraphic text printed on a facing page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Claire Jeanine Satin: Sculpture, Bookworks & Related Objects, 1993

 Item — Box 133: [Barcode: 31858072457868]
Identifier: CC-02615-2658
Scope and Contents

The four books making up this exhibition catalog, which in itself can be classified as an artist book, comprise the topics, Sculpture, Artist and Process, Related Objects, and Bookworks. The latter includes Marvin Sackner's critical essay, "Who Says Thirteen Is Unlucky?" The theme of several of the pieces in the exhibition is Satin's adaptation of John Cage, Jasper Johns and Merce Cunningham's collaborative work, "Dancers on a Plane." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Codex Atorrantis / Wright, Edward., 1984

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Identifier: CC-39971-41938
Scope and Contents As indicated in a 1985 exhibition catalogue sponsored by the British Arts Council, the idea for a new codex appears in the first notebook as part of the Central School teaching programme: like a Mexican codex in concertina form but 'applied to modern wrapping paper, one side only'. The notion lay dormant for many years but from 1972 its advances and vicissitudes are chronicled in the notebooks. Wright was working at that time on his article 'The Essential Book'. Peguy was the exemplary craftsman: for him 'a book meant a total commitment to social and spiritual truth. . . A book meant writing, editing, printing, proof correcting, publishing and even opening a bookshop in the Rue de la Sorbonne'- the making and the message were inseparable.In an article written in a 1991 issue of Eye magazine on Wright's work, the form of the codex is quite roughly made and free of grand summarising gestures. The chief subject is lunfardo, the slang of the vagrant people of Buenos Aires. This code...
Dates: 1984

Colour etc, 1987

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Ga-Gr: [Barcode: 31858072491479]
Identifier: CC-41509-43497
Scope and Contents

The edition consisted of 12 numbered and signed copies and four artist proofs that contained the reief print and three additional prints. In addition, 90 ordinary copies did not include the relief print and three additional prints. The images consist of young girl's bottom underware. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Comeundone, 1989

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Identifier: CC-15924-16257
Scope and Contents

Printed by Ruth Lingen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Concrete Inspection, 1992 - 2000

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Identifier: CC-59597-10002675
Scope and Contents

This artist book is based on an original 1909 book by a writer with the same name as the book artist. It was originally "A Manual of Information and Instruction for Inspectors." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992 - 2000

Copia Ars Scribendi 1983=1996, 1997

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Identifier: CC-29009-30345
Scope and Contents

The ink hieroglyphic drawings were redone in 1996 from an earlier sketch book and colored drawings were done in 1996 as new works. Kai Selbar did the silkscreens for the pages and covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Cortado por la Misma Tijera, 1977

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-31007-32466
Scope and Contents

Damaso Ogaz (1924-1990). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Coupe Net, 2000

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Identifier: CC-39342-41292
Scope and Contents

This book contains texts, images, collages, graphics and photographs by the two authors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Cromanzo, 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-15421-15745
Scope and Contents

The colors appear so vibrant that it seems that the images were drawn rather than printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

De Gaulle et le Sexe, 1968

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Identifier: CC-07481-7625
Scope and Contents

After a brief introductory political manifesto, the remaining pages consist of cut-up segments from popular trade magazines followed by a long series of blank pages. The drawings in the two copies held by the Sackner Archive show slight differences. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Der Bücherwächter, 1993

 Item — Box 128: [Barcode: 31858072458304]
Identifier: CC-01498-1531
Scope and Contents

The theme of this work is the poet, Jorge Luis Borges. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993