Scope and Contents This is a review copy as stated on the enclosed card. It is an uneven but useful presentation of multiples since both very small editions (3 copies) to unlimited editions are given the same footings. The author selects examples of individual artist works from Word and Pictures but ignores the whole universe of assemblings that include a myriad of multiples. Works mentioned by Bury and held by the Sackner Archive include 1) Maurizio Nannucci's "Poem," 1967; 2) Kenhelm Cox's "Suncycle," 1968 (without motor); 3) Mary Martin's "Rotation," 1968; 4) Maurizio Nannucci's "Do It Yourself," 1969 [Bury states edition of 10 but the Sackner Archive holds the same title in a paint can dated 1968 in a numbered edition of 30 copies]; 5) John Cage's "Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel" (1970); 6) Ian Hamilton Finlay's "Pacific," 1975; 7) Maurizio Nannucci's "Creare L'Artista Creativo = To Create the Creative Artist," 1977; 8) Ian Hamilton Finlay's "Arcadian Gliders," 1981; 9) Yoko Ono's "A...

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Stored in Nannucci box. "This voume, subtitled "Nonprofit Collective Organizations in the 1960's and 1970's," gathers one of the first extensive research on artist-run spaces. Developed in collaboration with the initiators and founders of Art Metropole (Vancouver), Artpool (Budapest), Ecart (Geneva), Farnklin Furnace (New York) La Mamelle (San Francisco), Printed Matter (New York), and Zona (Florence), the activities of these interconnected points of an alternative network are thus introduced by figures such as AA Bronson, Lucy Lippard, Tom Marioni, and Maurizio Nannucci. They develop on the implications of new art practices, self-organizaion strategies, and politics of exchange." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue defines, describes and illustrates, in an experiment graphic designed layout, mass produced editions of artists' books from the 1970's to the 1990's. This book is complementary to Johanna Drucker's book, "The Century of Artists' Books that dealt with unique and small editioned books. In an in-depth essay, Clive Phillpot analyzes the entire spectrum, including magazines, assemblings, manifestos, visual poetry, scores, documentation, sketchbooks, albums, graphic works, comic books, illustrated books, page art, mail art and bookworks. Martha Wilson is interviewed by Thomas Padon about the Franklin Furnace Archive. -- 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.

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Edited by Rick Gadella and Daniel Elias. Includes a 16 page insert by Francisco Clemente. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive is listed as resource of Artists' Books Collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue is a retrospective of Kocman's Artists' Books and Papers. Jiri Valoch contributed a critical essay that traced the interdisciplinary art movements of the 1970's, the European political and artistic community in which Kocman worked, and his studies in bookbinding and aesthetics. He describes Kocman's work as "a synthesis combining intellectual detachment informed by his conceptual experience with a remarkable sensibility and strong lyricism and with a continuous questioning of the nature of art." Several examples of Kocman's works are held by the Sackner Archive. For example, the catalogue depicts a reproduction of Poe's "The Raven," one of Kocman's paper re-making books that is held by the Sackner Archive. The catalogue lists "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka (1980) and Fragment of Videvdat and Other Fragments (1988), as well as several editioned books held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Jack M. Ginsberg and David M. Paton and was divided into two sections: International Artists' Books and Book-Objects and South African Artists' Books and Book-Objects. Ginsberg contributed a personal essay on collecting artists' books and the nature of the book. A bibliography, complete index and a list of exhibitions are included. The catalogue consists of an annotated listing of books and book objects without illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains statement by the artists on the definition of an Artist Book. This catalogue provides documentation of the artist's activities often accompanied by photographic reproductions. The quirky binding of this book, which in itself might be classified as an artist's book, make access to the pages difficult and time-consuming and therefore not a easily readable reference text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

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Krystyna Wasserman curated the exhibition and wrote an introductory essay. The Sackner Archive lent "La Prose du Transsiberien et de la Petitie Jehanne de France" by Sonya Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars. The books are illustrated on the right facing pages and each artist wrote a personal explanation of her work on the left facing page. Sandra Jackman, one of the contributing artists, provided a travel notebook from her journey to the middle east. -- 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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The sculpture "Forest Devil" 1977, by Kenneth Snelson is reproduced in an essay on the artist; the maquette is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a chronology of the extensive activities of the Artpool Archive in Budapest. The index lists the most complete number of participants in the mail art network. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Austin writes that "by turning their home into a museum, collectors Ruth and Marvin Sackner have made concrete and visual poetry more like household words." The article and interview concisely defines and describes the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Clive Phillpot contributed an essay, "Reading Artists' Books," in which he wrote that "Visual artists have explored and exploited the nature and structure of the book. both in former times and with renewed vigor more recently, with the result that the book has come to be appreciated widely as an extremely fruitful and subtle multidimensional means for the transmission of human experience. In addition, artists have come to demand of their readers that they develop their ability to utilize various forms of reading, whether retinal or tactile, whether linear, peripheral, oscillatory, or random, in order to be able to engage fully with the content embedded in each book." Books by Carothers, Ligorano, and Mabe were lent to this exhibition by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.