Skip to main content

Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2625 Collections and/or Records:

[Giorno Dopo Giorno] / Fagioli, Luigi., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-12810-13097
Scope and Contents

This is a trade edition booklet that has been altered by the artist by overwiting the text with colored ink, hoeroglyphic-like markings to the extent that the original text has been rendered unrecognizable. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Girls! Girls! Madwomen & Murderesses / Maher, Miranda., 1993

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-34623-36324
Scope and Contents

This is a feminist book in which the author describes madwomen, murderous madwomen, and murderesses using press quotations, drawings amd photographic reproductions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Give Me the Words / Hensel, Susan., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28791-30101
Scope and Contents

The background text appears to be sentences derived from random thoughts analogous to automatic writing or painting. The pop-ups consist of the letters of the title filled with fragmented text. The inside back cover has a magnetic surface onto which have been arranged about 200 words and brief phrases that can be altered by the reader. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Give Up Art / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-59306-10002400
Scope and Contents

Thr numbers 1 to 20 are handwritten, one large number to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Giving Fear a Proper Name: Detroit, 1984

 Item — Box 150: [Barcode: 31858072458031]
Identifier: CC-09937-10134
Scope and Contents

The artist produced this book from a diary she kept about dreams, recollections, and fears on relocating to Detroit in 1979. Facing pages, one of poems and the other of photocollages depict such experiences. The photographs were reprinted from "Portrait of an Artist and Her Mother."The experiences described among others include "kainophobia": fear of change, "eremiphobia": fear of solitude. Grant has produced an outstanding, powerful presentation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Go Book: 10. No.10 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54331-643218
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book10 consists of mainly of blank varied colored stock paper with a few pages depicting rubberstamped or woodcut numbers 10, 1, or 0. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: And. No.27 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54344-643231
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. In this book, Depew has taken a single abstract woodcut image and manipulated it on the pages as one to four juxtaposed images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: arrow(s). No.38 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54354-643242
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages.The pages depict arrow or arrows, some narrow and others wide. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Being a Go Book. No.33 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54346-643233
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. Most of the pages of this book depict an abstract woodcut image that has been manipulated by joining multiple images of it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Dart Skip. No.9 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54330-643217
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 9 consists of a combination of woodcut squares and rectangles and rubberstamped words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Dash Leap. No.7 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54328-643215
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 7 consists of different arrangements of the rubberstamped words 'dash' and a single page with the word 'leap' along with abstract woodcut prints on non-rubberstamped pages that have a tenuous relation to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Dive jump. No.2 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54322-643209
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 2 includes different arrangements of the rubberstamped words 'jump' and 'dive' along with abstract woodcut prints on non-rubberstamped pages that appear to relate to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: [Double Alphabet]. No.35 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54352-643240
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. Each page depicts a letter of the alphabet in a large and small font in order until the letter 'K', e.g., AA, BB., CC, etx. Thereafter, the combinations depict JL, IM, HN, and GO. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Flow. No.19 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54337-643224
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 16 is divided by subheadings into four parts: 1) 16 one to six squares joined together with one and two repeated on eight pages, 2) 16 1/4 one to three squared joined together, 3) 16 1/2 one square with different spatial arrangements on 5 pages, 3) 16 3/4 no subsequent pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Fly. No.8 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54329-643216
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 8 consists of different arrangements of the rubberstamped word 'fly' with abstract woodcut prints on non-rubberstamped pages that have a vertical figuratuve appearance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: G0. No.37 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54353-643241
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages.This is a flip book using G0, G, and 0. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: G260. No.26 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54355-643243
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. In this book, Depew has taken a single abstract woodcut image and manipulated it on the pages as one to three connected images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973