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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:

mythos chronos logos, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35023-36744
Scope and Contents Vamp & Tramp: An artist book in three parts, subtitled "Chance Chants," "Timing," and "Logic." In this layered study of language and consciousness, Laxson explores the spoken and printed (or written) aspects of alphabetic cultures and an eventual diminishment of image-making because it diluted the potency of words. The book moves in a nonlinear fashion (even through the more linear sections ). To greatly oversimplify: Laxson begins in prehistory symbolizing the beginning of language as an extension of image-making by a combination rebus/word map. As a concept of numerical ordering develops out of the collective chaos—"We're here in the land of scheming"— the individual (ego) takes the stage. Ultimately, an inherent richness and diversity of awareness is abandoned for one that can be explained in words—"She: We all lost our capacity for awe and wonder . . when we started writing about it. He: But writing glorified monotheism, individualism. It invented money, prose, drama,...
Dates: 2000

N (a'nyay), 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-31842-33360
Scope and Contents

The book consists of the printed Spanish letter, N (a'nyay), that has been enlarged 92 times by a photocopying process. It also reprints dictionary words that include this letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

N (a'nyay), 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-44482-46632
Scope and Contents

The book consists of the printed Spanish letter, N (a'nyay), that has been enlarged 92 times in various colors by a photocopying process. It also reprints dictionary words that include this letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Nahoru a dolu, hloubkove basne, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-46583-49313
Scope and Contents

The French title is "En-haut et en-bas" or "Top and Bottom,"or "High and Low." Each page is a print of Kolar's typogrammes from the 1960's. The pages are cut so that a portion of typing from the following pages become an important part of the composition. Kolar created new configurations with the typewriter that were known as "creations plastiques." The Sackner Archive holds unique typewritten pages that were bound into a unique binding by Pella Erskine Tullock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Neither...Nor..., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-17974-18344
Scope and Contents

Theme deals with the evolution of fish to fowl. Owing to the printing process, no two copies are completely alike. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

No News, No. 30, 1994

 Item — Box 167: [Barcode: 31858072458213]
Identifier: CC-05698-5805
Scope and Contents

This work includes instructions to perform this piece by Ay-O. The reader must first find the one signed box and then use it as the starting point for the No News sculpture. The remaining unfolded boxes (for various commmercial products) are then unfolded and placed at the reader's discretion. The box containg the works is a commercial dental wax box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Nothing , 2013

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-58481-10001701

O Novo Atlas parte 1, 1977

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Ga-Gr: [Barcode: 31858072491479]
Identifier: CC-50091-71152
Scope and Contents

This book is listed and depicted in the exhibition catalogue, "Libros de Artista - Artist's Books: Tomo 1" (2003) curated by Martha Hellio. She states that a total of 100 copies were printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Obscene Jesters, 2010

 Item — Box 170: [Barcode: 31858072458320]
Identifier: CC-51561-72660
Scope and Contents This rubberstamp set was first fabricated in 50 copies in 1979 at PSX headquarters in San Francisco CA. It was exhibited in Rubber Stamp Publications in 1980 in Amsterdam and performed in 2010 at the Stamp Art Museum in Chicago by Keith Buchholz and Picasso Gaglione. According to Darlene Domel, Picasso Gaglione's wife, creation of rubberstamp box sets has continued unabated since the late 1980's. "These box sets pay homage to the famous FLUX POST KIT 7 created by George Maciunas in a limited edition in 1967, but are unique and faithful only to Picasso's personal vision. He produces every set individually. Each box concept develops from some unique idea or a little known fact gleaned from his art research on Dadaists, Fluxists, and contemporary mail artists. It may or may not relate to rubberstamp activity but usually has some element of stamping in it. Some sets pay homage to artists that he admires. Some capture a moment in art history or document the activity of an artist who...
Dates: 2010

On the Slates, 1992

 Item — Box 141: [Barcode: 31858072457942]
Identifier: CC-20083-20477
Scope and Contents

This object was designed by A.S.C. Rower. The loose sheets are wrapped in a roll with a $1.00 bill that is tied with a shoelace. The single sanitized shoe is a container for the false row of money; it was obtained from a Salvation Army distribution center in Poughkeepsie, NY. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Only Connect, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-18994-19373
Scope and Contents

The book is bound into a folder in four sections so that the pages may be turned in random order thereby constantly changing the story. This format is the same as the booklets with spiral spines on all borders published by Kickshaws. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Pages, 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-10652-10861
Scope and Contents

Gibbs took pages from other books in several languages and bound them in part or as a whole into this book. The pages are numbered sequentially and are unrelated by theme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Pages and Forgotten and Not, 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32486-34062
Scope and Contents

This book consists of reproductions of selected works by Danon over the period 1969-1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Paperback: Condensed Edition, 1993

 Item — Box 283: [Barcode: 31858073143418]
Identifier: CC-20492-20889
Scope and Contents

Consists of torn pieces of paper from a paperback novel packed within a transparent box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Persephone: Die Zierlichte Todesgottin Ein Marchen, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-10642-10851
Scope and Contents

Theme is the birth and death of Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter who is the personification of spring; hence the use of flowers in the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995