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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2625 Collections and/or Records:

Federqualen VIII / Genin, Albrecht., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-10593-10799
Scope and Contents

Each page has been done with unique calligraphy and/or line drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Fiction Seven Teen / Depew, Wally., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-51146-72233
Scope and Contents

Although the colophon states this book was supposed to be a signed and number edition of 49 copies and part of a series that included Qua Trains, Art, Toxic, and Ocean among others, it is neither signed nor numbered and is not referred to by the other books of this series nor in Wally Depew's personal list. Therefore, the two copies held by the Sackner Archive with different colored covers, purple and beige, are probably unique. The book has no text except for the colophon and depicts different placements of black woodblock squares on the page that provide a moving image while the pages are flipped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Field Guide to the Books of Hans Waanders 4th Edition, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-33768-35432
Scope and Contents

The author treats the subject of identifying books in the style of a bird watching guide. He illustrated the text with 600 drawings of different varieties of books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Fiestaware / Rowe, Willyum., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-29520-30887
Scope and Contents

The cover and each page depict a photograph of female nude collaged with components of industrial machines tools that are placed in strategic positions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

fifty-two words, 2001

 Item — Box 151: [Barcode: 31858072458049]
Identifier: CC-39082-41021
Scope and Contents

The artist describes this book as follows. "The book consists of fifty-two pages, each with one word repeated and overlaid across the page. A symbol that represents a way of understating each word is cut out with colored papers laid under the cut-outs. Half of the pages contain a phrase related to both the word and symbol printed in a light grey. Cloth covered stiff leaf binding, laser printed text, cut pages, Japanese dyed paper." The book opens to a circular form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

fin-de-siècle, 2000

 Item — Box 287: [Barcode: 31858072460680]
Identifier: CC-35395-37130
Scope and Contents

The round images on the four pages are a backward clock face, Stonehenge, a labyrinth and the earth as seen from space. The pages are attached to the lock handle and the key is in the lock. This is Bart's greeting for the new millenium. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Fire Engine Red / Gross, Roni., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-10629-10838
Scope and Contents

This book commemorating Valentine's Day 1995, consists of randomly arranged phrases containing the word, red, which is omitted and marked with an underlined space. A red pencil is provided in the base to allow writing this missing word. The transluce pages that fold over each other were printed with a laser from a MacIntosh computer. The ink drawings in black ink depicting red colored fruits (apple, strawberry, etc.) on the covers were printed letterpress at the Center for Book Arts, NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

First Series #14 / Young, Karl ; Berman W ; MacLow J ; Rothenberg J ; Olson T ; Ott G ; Kostelanetz R ; Nichol bp ; Four Horsemen., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-38325-40222
Scope and Contents

Karl Young collated, at random, rejected or test pages from the books of his own Membrane Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988