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This book is an in-depth, densely illustrated, presentation of international contemporary artists books with an emphasis on Brazilian artists. At the end of this book, the editor prints interviews of Lenir de Miranda, Neide Dias de Sa, Wlademir Dias Pino, Vera Chaves Barcellos, Iolanda Gollo Mazzotti, and Anna Moeglin-Delcroix regarding their views on artist books. Enzo Miglietta and Paulo Bruscky contribute essays on their philosophy and on book objects, respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book lists and depicts the holdings of art games (mostly fluxus boxes) collected by Hans Sohm and now held by the Stuttgart Museum. Ina Conzen prepared this catalogue that is an excellent source book for such materials. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Nancy Princenthal contributed an essay, "The Bookmakers' Odds: A Short, Subjective Survey of Recent Publications by Artists." The catalogue includes a sixteen page insert by Lawrence Weiner of conceptual art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dust jacket: Over the last twenty years an increasing number of artists have turned to expressing themselves through postcards. Whether by way of installation, collage, addition to, or alteration of existing postcards, or the production of postcards themselves, many prominent artists employ the medium in some form. Artists' Postcards traces the origin of artists' fascination with postcards from the early 1900s but with a focus on the contemporary, revealing the significant number of artists who have made creative and unusual artworks in postcard form. With 400 images of postcards created by many well-known artists, Artists' Postcards is the first critical guide to the subject. From surrealists to Fluxus and conceptual artists, this book includes an array of historical and contemporary postcards by such artists as George Grosz, Bruce Nauman, Richard Long, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Joseph Beuys, Ben Vautier, Dieter Roth, Ray Johnson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gavin...

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Jan Voss' "200 Virages Serres," an artist book which is held by Sackner Archive, is depicted in this catalogue. The cover was designed by Timm Ulrichs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent the work "Buttocklifting" to the Center for Fine Arts Beuys exhibition in Miami. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Francesco Conz contributed an essay "Winterreise" about his visits to Fluxus artists in Europe. Hannah Higgins writes about "Fluxus and the Sensible Thought c. 2001." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book tracks the interdisciplinary and international arts movement that began in the 1960's..."Fluxus is both an attitude towards art -making and culture that is not historically limited, and a specific historic group...This attitude is in part traceable to the network of interrelated ideas about culture, politics, and society explored earlier in the twentieth century by the Futurists, the Dadaists, and the Surrealists. Some of these same ideas were later explored after World War II by artists associated with groups such as Lettrism, International Situationism, Nouveau Realisme, and Fluxus itself." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue traces the productions, exhibitions and publications of Ecart. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition of artist books, mostly drawn from German speaking artists, was curated by Michel Giroud. Several books and periodicals that are reproduced in this catalogue are held by the Sackner Archive including Schleber's "Autobiography of a He-Man." Stored in box with other books having a title beginning with Livres. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The curator of the exhibition, Kynaston McShine, writes that this exhibition "surveys the ways in which artists, mostly of hte present century, have addressed the museum, commented on its nature, confronted its concepts and functions, drawn from its methods, and examined its relationship to the art it contains...It illuminates the approaches taken by artists and discusses the aspects of the museum's life on which they have chosen to settle." The Sackners attended this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Starting from the work of pioneers of the historical avant-gardes, this volume reconstructs synthetically the vicissitudes of artists' postcards, ranging from the conceptual mailings of Fluxus to the multicoloured oddities of the planetary circuit of mail art, from unusual unique pieces" to the most stimulating alternative and New Pop editions, up to the phenomenon of promotional free-cards and to the virtual e-cards via Internet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Subitiled "L'art vivant autour du musee de Lodz," the exhibition and catalogue was more than a panorama or a retrospective of the intellectual, artistique and spiritual center of art in Poland. It was a multi-discipline manifestation of a utopian community which started in the 1930's and gave a voice to the cultural and artistic collaboration between Poland and France. The Sackners attended this exhibition held at the Pompidou Centre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Curated by Georg Jappe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.