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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2493 Collections and/or Records:

Carta a una Pasion Muerta / Macia, Carlos., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-06176-6290
Scope and Contents

The copper box that contains this work has been fabricated as an envelope. The book deals with AIDS, a disease that ultimately caused Macia's death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Carte d'Arte. No.7/Dec / Bentivoglio M., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-17708-18077
Scope and Contents

Mirella Bentivoglio contributed a review of "Il Segno del Libro," an exhibition held at the Cagliari Fair featuring bookarts from 1896-1990. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

cARTe / Tzara T ; Isou I ; Oisteanu V., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-20374-20771
Scope and Contents

Includes an essay about the exhibition of Romanian artist books by Andrei Plesu, "Image, Writing, Breathing," in which he concludes: "And the microcosmic spirit of wind is the breath (k'i). Writing is an embodied breathing, a hieroglyph of the vital soul itself. And in a sense, the exhibition we ponder over is a discourse about breathing, about the meaningful rhythms of spontaneity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Case of Nouns and Verbs] / Shaw, Karen., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-35828-37588
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts a wood flatwear box with an open drawer that is filled with printed words. The inside lid contains adverbs, the top drawer nouns and the bottom drawer verbs. Karen Shaw's name is rubberstamped on the verso of the card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Cat Tales , 1980

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-22424-22848
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of unique book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Catalogue / Goulart, Claudio., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-31171-32639
Scope and Contents

This book has tabs on each page for the letters of the alphabet like an address book. The rubberstamped image implicitely or explicitely relates to that letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Caught in the Rain Broken in the Stardust / Pierson, Jack., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-04774-4864
Scope and Contents

The color of the text is white, hand-printed on black paper as if it were painted graffeti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Ce Jour La On N'avait Rien A Faire On A Fait Un Livre, 1968

 Item — Box 335: [Barcode: 31858072491040]
Identifier: CC-21090-21499
Scope and Contents

Most of the collage elements are circular reinforcements for the holes of loose leaf pages in varied colors -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Chaman/Lieu / de Charmoy, Cozette ; Artaud A., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-15035-15351
Scope and Contents

Postface that was written by Rodney Grey gives an account of the subject of this book, the Shaman and his/her space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Chance Arranges Our Catalogue Volume One / Crozier, Robin., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-19637-20023
Scope and Contents

The pages are densely filled with small printed images taken mostly from popular magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Charme Der Armut, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-27032-27506
Scope and Contents

The drawings and rubberstampings are done on pages of brown wrapping paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Checklist 125B / Black Sun Books ; Ernst M ; Prevert J ; Ford CH ; Hirschman J ; Klucis G ; Ionesco E., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32224-33780
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists the first sale price for a Jack Hirschman artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Cherokingfisher's Wings / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09056-9235
Scope and Contents

This work tries to evoke the motion of the bird. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Chiffres et Danse sur Deux / Chopin, Henri ; Erskine-Tulloch P., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-19578-19963
Scope and Contents

The pages in this book, mostly in blue ink, demonstrate a fantastic capability of typewriting skills. Pella Erskine-Tulloch, the bookbinder commissioned by the Sackner Archive for this book, reproduced the first page of Chopin's handwriting on its cover. The table of contents lists the following titles: 1.Vibrances repoussees - Beaten back vibrances; 2.Vibrances positives - Positive vibrances; 3.George Orwell; 4.Octobre - October; 5.Vibrations; 6.Spirals; 7.Crocheteufs - Hooks (?); 8.Mouvoit (?); 9.Les Vibrates - The Vibrators; 10.Les vortex - The Vortices; 11.Spirales de l'an fabuleux - Spirals of the fabulous year; 12.Danse de l'an - Dance of the year -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Childhood Memories] / Genis, Gina., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10489-10693
Scope and Contents Internet: Gina Genis is a graduate of Parsons School of Design in N.Y., and Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, L.A. She leads the Gina Genis Photography Workshops where she shares the secret techniques of the pros with students from all over the country. She also teaches online photography courses through The Compelling Image. Gina has had her photography featured on CNN, CBS, NBC, and numerous television stations across the US. She regularly exhibits her work in museums and galleries across the U.S. She curated "Wide Angle View", an exhibit of 16 international award-winning photojournalists at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and finished six weeks as an Artist-In-Residence at the Huntington Beach Art Center in 2011. She is included in the permanent collections of the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, the Otto G. Richter Library Special Collections Division of the University of Miami, Orange County Transit District, and IBM, and the Hard Rock...
Dates: 1993