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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2625 Collections and/or Records:

for nothing changes...yet / Walker, Todd., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35003-36724
Scope and Contents

This book was published posthumously by Nexus Press using the colored photographs by Todd Walker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[For the Loss of your Mother] / Mayerson, Evelyn W.., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35276-37010
Scope and Contents

Evelyn Mayerson presented this work to Marvin Sackner after the death of his mother, Goldie. In it Mayerson pasted selected pages from her novels pertaining to the aging or dying of her characters. She described the situation and emotion in handwritten text at the bottom of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

For the Voice: Sounds & Silence in Artists' Books / Bury, Stephen ; Mayakovsky V ; Lissitzky E ; Mallarme S ; Marinetti FT ; Ernst M., 1994

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Identifier: CC-24127-24579
Scope and Contents

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at workffortheeyetodo in London, April-May, 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

For Those Who Believe Youi Can Tell a Book by Its Cover / Reif, Rita; Delaunay S; Lissitzky E; Smith P., 1992

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Identifier: CC-03489-3546
Scope and Contents

Reif reviews an exhibition of bookbindings at Ursus Books, New York City. Sonia Delaunay's book, "Prose du Transiberian," a work held by the Sackner Archive is mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

for your Mental Heat, Try Ozona Snuff / Michel Meyer., 1984

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Identifier: CC-55697-54829
Scope and Contents

Internet: For Michel Meyer, everything started in the mid 1980s when he founded the multimedia group Wonder Products with fellow artists from the Beaux Arts School of Paris. The group produced avant-garde video art and staged art performances with multi screen displays that were shown in numerous international festivals. Its most famous events were an exhibition art the modern Art Museum of Paris and a series of performances at the Theatre de la Bastille. Naturally, Michel got interested in CGA graphics from the start and was one of the first French directors to work with digital 3D and 2D techniques with companies like Ex Machina, Sogitec or Mc Guff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

for your Mental Heat, Try Ozona Snuff / Michel Meyer., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-55697-54829
Scope and Contents

Internet: For Michel Meyer, everything started in the mid 1980s when he founded the multimedia group Wonder Products with fellow artists from the Beaux Arts School of Paris. The group produced avant-garde video art and staged art performances with multi screen displays that were shown in numerous international festivals. Its most famous events were an exhibition art the modern Art Museum of Paris and a series of performances at the Theatre de la Bastille. Naturally, Michel got interested in CGA graphics from the start and was one of the first French directors to work with digital 3D and 2D techniques with companies like Ex Machina, Sogitec or Mc Guff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Forgive Verses] / Basin, Ilya., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-23563-24008
Scope and Contents

The text is written in several calligraphic styles. This book is based upon the poems by Igor Vishnevsky -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Forms of Communication / Eller, Evelyn., 1997

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Identifier: CC-34595-36294
Scope and Contents

Each page of this book depicts a different form of communication: hieroglyphs, music, Braille, mathematics, language and the manual alphabet for the deaf that has been assembled from printed materials. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

formules / Dautricourt, Joelle., 1997

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Identifier: CC-39676-41635
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a grid or lines of calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Forum Book Art A & B / Bartkowiak, Heinz Stefan, editor., 1995

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Identifier: CC-24185-24637
Scope and Contents

This is a compendium of contemporary prints, artist books, portfolios, and book objects mainly from Germany but also from England and America. Includes profit and non-profit centers. Well illustrated with examples from the various presses. Includes works of several presses that are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Found Poems / Gallo, Philip., 1990

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Identifier: CC-10337-10540
Scope and Contents

These are the first proof pages of book which was underwritten by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Fowarding the Book in California / Tanner W ; Reese H ; Butler F ; Raworth T ; Davids B ; Golden A ; Hoyt S ; Campbell C ; Chen J ; Johnston A ; King S., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10802-11012
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was sponsored by the Pacific Center for the Book Arts and consisted of books submitted by American letterpress printers. Several books in this exhibition are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Fragment of Videvdat and other Fragments / Kocman, J.H.., 1988

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Identifier: CC-07733-7884
Scope and Contents

Kocman pulped the book "Videvdat" and used the paper pulp to create new thicker pages of handmade paper. The title refers to Zoroastrianism, an ancient religion. The VidÄ“vdāt, or Vendidad ("Law Rejecting the Daevas"), consists of two introductory sections recounting how the law was given to man, followed by 18 sections of rules.... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Fragments from the Stacked Deck / Anderson, Judy., 1995

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Identifier: CC-26791-27261
Scope and Contents

Theme deals with feminist suppression. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995