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Bookbinding

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Écriture sur le Mur, 1987

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-27498-28548
Scope and Contents

Twenty copies of the examples de tete were bound by Knoderer - the Sackner Archive copy is one of these copies. The illustrations by Pageris are semi-realistic, line drawings with a background of black watercolored abstract markings. The bookbinding has sample strips of tooled and painted leather laid into a bimorphic shape whose silhouette has features resembling the side of the human face. The binding is much larger than the booklet which is conventionally shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Lettre dans la Tête, 1996

 Item — Box 128: [Barcode: 31858072458304]
Identifier: CC-27511-28566
Scope and Contents

The booklet was designed using drawings made by Pagiras to form the word, 'Lettre,' one letter to a page. These letters are repeated on each page along with abstract markings and/or a profile of a stylized face. After completion of the text, the page depicts a stylized frontal view of the face with different letters eminating from the area of the brain. Book displayed in glass case and envelope in small objects box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

R.W. Emerson Essays, 1996

 Item — Box 128: [Barcode: 31858072458304]
Identifier: CC-27510-28565
Scope and Contents

The booklet was designed by taking colored printed letters from clippings of the popular press and collaging them onto pages with a collaged visual and verbal background. The text reads, "R.W. Emerson essays - nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Book displayed in glass case and envelope in small objects box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996