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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 225 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Piedras Sueltas / Pierres Epareses, 1970

 Item — Box 102: [Barcode: 31858073143798]
Identifier: CC-38299-40196
Scope and Contents

The 22 poems of Octavio Paz, translated into French by Jean-Clarence Lambert, were printed on papermade paper by Milda Krasno. The title means loose or free stones and the handmade papers resemble stones. The book object was conceived by Rodolfo Krasno who also contributed a line drawing of a surrealist-like figure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Plah plah pli plah , 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-55235-9998994
Scope and Contents

In addition to the sound poetry texts in this book, the varied stock papers of the pages give rise to different sounds on turning the pages, a phenomenon not readily achievable on ebooks! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Proofs , 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-17975-18345
Scope and Contents

The pages are "saturated" with proofs of "discarded titles, rejected illustrations, botched typographics" from an abandoned book, "Sic Transport." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Punto Linea, 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-16340-16690
Scope and Contents

The theme of punto (point) and linea (line) is interpreted with several calligraphic and typewritten processes, one to each page. The photocopied letter was posted by Roland Barthes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Rebus Copper Book], 1997

 Item — Box 287: [Barcode: 31858072460680]
Identifier: CC-29152-30497
Scope and Contents This densely worked book presents the rebuses of Afrika that are a continuum of the "spheres of interimagery" in the Russian social structure as expressed in folkloric tradition and in the theories of Mayakovsky and by anonymous artists. " In Afrika's rebuses, one can read the colour, texture, heaviness, light, and sound reflectability of the material...Things return to life, become oxidized, and undergo different transformations...The rebus is surrounded by an ornament which gives them all the character of an icon or of a folk-art picture. A confessional ornament is laid upon well-developed communist symbols. A catalogue titled "Rebus" held by the Sackner Archive, published by Avant-Garde, Moscow and Paul Judelson Arts, New York illustrates and describes the copper works of Afrika.The following is an introduction by oleysa turkina and victor mazin and translated by a d haun from "Rebus II: Works on Copper" I-20 gallery, ny (1997). IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE REBUS The rebus spoke by...
Dates: 1997