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Artist book (mass produced)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 243 Collections and/or Records:

Absence / Yoon, J. Meejin., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41643-43633
Scope and Contents The perforations in the book correspond to an aerial view of 120 floors of the twin towers of the World Trade Center with the final page the absence of other buidings in the surrounding ground following September 11, 2001.Lost Books: Both a book and a sculptural object, ABSENCE is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At almost two pounds, ABSENCE has a considerable physical presence, but it is in every way the ghost of a presence, and it is this ghostliness that gives it its particular emotional weight. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the book's "text" consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one-hundred-and-twenty pages -- one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. These removed elements lead the reader floor by floor through the missing buildings towards the final page where the footprint of the entire site of the World Trade Center is die-cut into a delicate lattice of absent structures....
Dates: 2003

Alnus Glutinosa (L.) Gaertner / Gette, Paul-Armand., 1977

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Identifier: CC-50081-71142
Scope and Contents

This book deals with a tree species and insects that feed on it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Alphabetical Ballad of Carnality / Sandlin, David., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46677-49407
Scope and Contents Amazon.com editorial review: This ABC for sinners spotlights creator David's Sandlin's alter ego, recounting his lurid life in rhyming couplets: a "sintamental education" in 26 easy steps, from Adultery to Zealotry. This is the fifth BLAB! storybook, a series showcasing sequential artists from Monte Beauchamp's annual BLAB! anthology. Each volume is presented in a faux-children's book format, though aimed squarely at adults and young adults. Sandlin's storybook composes what can best be described as narrative painting, taking advantage of the way in which painting (art) allows the artist to bring together the conscious and the subconscious, the rational and the irrational, the realistic and the dreamlike. Working in the cartoony style he has perfected over the last 20 years"”something of a cross between Thomas Hart Benton and MAD magazine"”Sandlin delivers hellfire and damnation via a lurid graphic style and hyperbolic rhetoric that strongly suggests sarcasm. But keeping the work...
Dates: 2006

Arbeiten 1977-1980: Collagen, Buchobjekte, Objektbilder / Gruber, Hermann., 1980

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Identifier: CC-10220-10423
Scope and Contents

This is the ordinary edition of the catalogue; it features photographic reproductions of Gruber's collages and book objects. The deluxe edition of the book published in 100 copies is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Argumentstellen / De Vries, Herman., 2003

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Identifier: CC-55021-998878
Scope and Contents Internet: Argumentstellen was conceived just one year after Wit weiss (a new version of the White book) and Permutierbarer text (but was published in 2003). It is a direct result of his recent reading of Tractatus. This large format book wherein a minuscule black dot always appears in a different location on the vast blank space of the page, does not treat language as such, but the way in which situation in the space (which is an attribute of all existing things, natural or human) implies a unique point of view each time, a never identical relation to the connection between the things that make up the world. indirectly, however, language is involved to the extent that it is powerless to say that which is never the same. This book visually translates (and illustrates) one of Wittgenstein's propositions (2.0131), quoted on the last page: "a spatial object must be situated in infinite space. (a spatial point is an argument-place)." It foreshadows the series of works on the experience...
Dates: 2003

Artists Books: Letters And Jazz. No.13 / George Brecht ; Stefan Wewerka., 1983

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Identifier: CC-24916-25369
Scope and Contents

Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Artists Books: Zoologische Miniaturen. No.19 / Arnulf Rainer., 1985

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Identifier: CC-24911-25364
Scope and Contents

Although this copy is numbered, it is unsigned. Stored on shelf with Hundertmark material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Atelier des Grames: Les Xueyeteterret ou les Boules de tnarapculnaej. / Jean-Luc Parant ; Souchiere EB., 1977

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Identifier: CC-31595-33093
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book is balls and the eyes. The text is densely printed in the shape of a circle or the four corner perimeter of a circle. The wood block prints depict images of small human figures with handwriting. This book is one of a series entitled, Collection Grames-Ecriture. The prints and cover were made by Emile Bernard Souchiere. Stored in Parant box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Beseechers / Basinski, Michael., 2000

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Identifier: CC-40988-42967
Scope and Contents

This book consist of the scores five single or multiple sound/performance poems with notes on the poems in a section at the end of the book. The poems are highly graphic in nature and are intended as a guide to the performer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Carmina Burana / Dienst, Klaus Peter., 1962

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Identifier: CC-15385-15709
Scope and Contents

Texts from Carmina Burana have been rendered by Dienst in a highly experimental calligraphic style similar to the styles employed in the magazine he published, Rhinozeros. Klaus Peter Dienst was born in 1936 and died in 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Casa de Dibujos / Tremlett, David ; Valsecchi M., 1993

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Identifier: CC-31379-32858
Scope and Contents

Photographs and drawings were made between May 1992 and March 1993 in Terlingua, Texas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993