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Artist book (mass produced)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 243 Collections and/or Records:

Numbers Bookmobile / Wolf, Anna ; Schapiro, Miriam., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-58053-10001299
Scope and Contents

The book structure was done by Anna Wolf in her typical style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Obra sobre Papel / Suarez Londono, Jose Antonio ; Phillips T ; Eno B ; Fludd R., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33164-34791
Scope and Contents

Suarez Londono's works on paper consist of engravings and mixed media. The series illustrated in the book are E.S.A.V., Retratos [Portraits], Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Degas, Yolovei, Eno, Paul Klee, Grabados [Engravings] and Wild Horses. Several of these works are artist notebooks. The book is also illustrated with 82 small pictures of historic and contemporary art works of importance to Suarez including a self-portrait of Tom Phillips painted on a page from A Humument, similar in imagery to a page held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Orderbuch / Hodell, Ake., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-41009-42988
Scope and Contents

The text consists of lists of products and numbers and lists of items that are struck through. Orderbuch lists the numbers of concentration camp prisoners and what has been extracted from them, eg.: "C A 36956 (J) / Motorol". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Ordinary. Extraordinary. Rosa Luxemberg and Alice Stevens / Stevens, May., 1988

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Identifier: CC-41183-43165
Scope and Contents

This book juxtaposes the life of Rosa Luxemberg, the communist revolutionary of the early 20th century with the life of Alice Stevens, the artist's mother. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Organon / Walther, Franz Erhard., 1983

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Identifier: CC-48034-69057
Scope and Contents

There was also a 2nd edition printed in 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

osservazione critiche sulla funzione del nervo ottico nella semiotica dell'arte / Frangione, Nicola., 1977

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Identifier: CC-11492-11708
Scope and Contents

Pages are black alternating with white and without text or image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

osservazione critiche sulla funzione del nervo ottico nella semiotica dell'arte / Frangione, Nicola., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-36212-37999
Scope and Contents

Pages are black alternating with white and without text or image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Palimpsest / Lovett, Ann., 1990

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Identifier: CC-07065-7204
Scope and Contents

An unidentified text is cancelled with squiggly lines leaving a new poetic text much like Phillips' A Humument but without varied visual treatment. Photographs and drawing are also interspaced in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Part One: Typographic Samples Pictures & Polemics; Part Two: Typographical Pictures; Part Three: Typographic Polemics / Corris, Michael ; Davis S ; Barr A., 1986

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Identifier: CC-19419-19802
Scope and Contents

Several of the pages in part one are Corris' typographical renditions of writings by Berthold Brecht. In parts two and three, Corris utilized concrete and visual poetic techniques to flesh out the politics of art. Composed and output by the author on Compugraphic Editwriter 7700, MCS 10 with Preview, MCS 20 with Power Page, and Compugraphic 8400. Funded in part by The National Endowment for the Arts. Part One, Typographic Samples: Excerpts from E.P. Thompson's "Letter to America," the Mask of Evil, This Babylonian Confusion, Ballad on Approving of the World, and other titles by Bertolt Brecht. Part Two, Typographic Pictures: "Logo for the Confused" and 15 other selections. Part Three, Typographic Polemics: Decomposition (after Alfred Barr), The Cultivated Hope (after Oscar Wilde), The Sucess and Failure of Stuart Davis, and The Sublime is Now (after Barnett Newman). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Persistent Stereotypes / Courtney, Pat., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-18586-18958
Scope and Contents

Sections of dictionary pages have been photocopied in varied magnifications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

point d'ironie: no # available. No.3 / Douglas Gordon., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35968-37734
Scope and Contents

After an introduction to the theme of this brochure, Gordon documents it with photographs by the placing of a completely black tattoo on the end of the index finger. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998