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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:

Image Visage, 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-35650-37397
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book are black and the poems and illustrations are grey, blue, red and turquoise. The hand done typography is highly stylized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Imaging, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-07328-7472
Scope and Contents

This book consists of three booklets and a leaflet mounted within the hard covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

It Comes in a Plain Brown Wrapper, 1983

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-18096-18468
Scope and Contents

This is a book of visual/verbal erotica done in a cartoon style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Italia II, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09887-10083
Scope and Contents

The collage consists of Hansen's typical image of Venus of Willendorf made with gold foil. The outline of the image is the collage on the final page. The photographs are portraits of Hansen, one of which is a deliberate double exposure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

January - Diary, 1991

 Item — Box 62: [Barcode: 31858072538535]
Identifier: CC-05067-5166
Scope and Contents

Several prints and collages have been signed by Olbrich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

John's Apples, 1995

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Gu-Ha: [Barcode: 31858072610375]
Identifier: CC-09797-9991
Scope and Contents

Thirteen paintings by John Wilde and twelve poems by Reeve Lindbergh are interspered in this 121st letterpress book by Hamady. The poems and images relate to the several varieties of apples. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Kojeve's Rhino, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-62510-47663
Scope and Contents Cozette de Charmoy writes in the colophon, "In 1806 Hegel saw the Rhino pass under his window in the stsreets of Jena. He understood at once. He said to himself 'This is the end of history.' More than a century later, Alexander Kojeve saw the Rhino (a metaphor for Salin) in the streets of Moscow. He understood, he left immediately." the following was taken from a WEB site: "Kojeve was a French philosopher (1902-1968), born Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kozhevnikov in Russia. Kojève studied in Germany (Heidelberg) where, under the supervision of Karl Jaspers, he completed a thesis (Die religöse Philosophie Wladimir Solowjews, 1931) Vladimir Solovyov, a Russian religious philosopher deeply influenced by Hegel. He later settled in Paris, where he taught at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. Taking over from Alexandre Koyré, he taught a seminar on Hegel from 1933 till 1939. Along with Jean Hyppolite, he was responsible for the serious introduction of Hegel into French thought. His...
Dates: 2005

Kontrapunk, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-14662-14975
Scope and Contents

Most works in this book were made by Deisler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

L., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-15127-15447
Scope and Contents

Each page has a frontal line drawing portrait of a woman's face with short cropped haie presumably Linda Bandt Depew, Wally's wife. The drawings are altered with various shadowy effects and are printed in black or red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

La Femme Électrique, 1988

 Item — Box 304: [Barcode: 31858072460946]
Identifier: CC-27420-28465
Scope and Contents The text and two drawings of this book were done by Pagiras, the book binding by Knoderer. The title of the book is The Electric Woman: A Little Erotic Tale. Tac. Tic. Tac...Electric woman, With a magnetic smile, Positively your Sssshhhhhhtttttt. Her third resonant eye, Luminous energy, Of electrodes, Fffffhhhhhtttttt. Caustic envelope, At the primary source, Of electronic bosoms, Phphphhhhhtttttt. Electric woman, Your negatively, Sssshhhhhhttttt. At the sundial disc, Stubborn, At the luminous oblivion, Of a dazzling logic, Ffffhhhhhhtttttt. Endothermic nudity, Chemically prisoner, Of a cathode tube, Phphphhhhhtttttt. Put me in gear, With the luminous needles, Of your electroacoustic awakening.Tic. Tac. Tic. Tac...This poem suggests that the woman in this poem has a great deal of inner electric energy which wants to be fleshed into the open. It compliments the sculpture of Miller Levy's "L'homme La femme" in which man is represented by a single on-off switch and woman by a plethora...
Dates: 1988

La Maronne/Ronde Brève, 1996

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-27532-28598
Scope and Contents

The poem object consist of two silkscreened prints depicting experimental music scores wrapped several times around a stiff printed card. The folders insert within a bent open plexiglas frame; the abstract plaster sculpture is sited on the forward bend of the plexiglas frame. The plastic circular poem object with white painted handwriting is mounted on an opened folder on the back of the book object. The sound poem was recorded on the tape casette by Serge Pey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

La Piedra Colectiva: Canciones con Movimiento , 1978

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-23441-23885
Scope and Contents

Also designated Exit 2. The print was made by Claudio Parmiggiani. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Lames, 1992

 Item — Box 185: [Barcode: 31858072459559]
Identifier: CC-00860-879
Scope and Contents

Lames means thin metal in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992