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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Histoire d'Amour pour s'en Mourir / Caruso, Luciano., 1977 - 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-19126-19505
Scope and Contents

Some of the images of the collages are erotic in content. The loose sheets consist of a title page and an index. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977 - 1978

Hokyo Zan Mai / Lalou, Frank., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-28794-30105
Scope and Contents

The drawings that depict the text of the Haiku poems are also illustrated in an abstract manner by Lalou. They were executed on heavy Fabriano paper. The large bold brush strokes that are done on several pages undoubtedly relate to Japanese calligraphers. The drawings are meant to be rotated in the case for visual display. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Hold On / McLaughlin, Jan., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-06730-6849
Scope and Contents

Rubber balloon incorporated into cover design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Holdup / Godard, Keith ; Williams, Emmett., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-29916-31305
Scope and Contents

The book depicts black and white photographs of fingers and thumbs from different individuals on each page that increase in number as the story progresses. Each digit engages in brief conversations about voyeurism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[Holes] / Pogacnik, Marko., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-31720-33232
Scope and Contents

The loose sheets of white papercard that were perforated with circular white holes placed at random on the different leaves, are held together by a single loose leaf ring. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Holistic Text With Orson, 1984

 Item — Box 138: [Barcode: 31858072457918]
Identifier: CC-43551-45627
Scope and Contents

The paper slips in the hollow read "to see beyond - the hand that points - in the individual soul, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Homage to George Lott, 1997

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-29133-30478
Scope and Contents

George Lott was an American soldier in WWII whose wounding in battle was published by Life magazine. Because of this publicity, he received over 3000 letters. Baroni's homage consists of collaging two paper, addressed envelopes from mail he received to each of 10 pages and both covers and adding band-aids or adhesive tape to them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Hommage a Antonin Artaud [Deluxe Edition] / Strugalla, Johannes ; Schwarz, Robert., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-60645-66970
Scope and Contents

This is one of the most outstanding, lavishly conceived, books in the Sackner Archive. Only the first 10 copies include the painted folder of which the Sackner copy is one of them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Hommage a Kurt Schwitters / Trinkewitz, Karel; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-01397-1430
Scope and Contents

Trinkewitz attached two panels of found papers and papercards from magazines, books and advertisements etc., cut to the size of match book covers, to a board collaged with an undecipherable, linear fragmented text with bold typefaces. These elements include images of Schwitters, Trinkewitz, Kolar, beautiful women, envelopes, receipts, maps, magazine pages, stamps etc. The verso has a signature dated 1984 at the Visual Poetry Conference in Saarbruchen, Germany. A photocopied group photographic portrait depicts Ruth and Marvin Sackner among poets at a visual poetry conference held in Sarrbrucken, West Germany in 1984. This work was exhibited in the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, in January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Hong Kong Tales, 1996

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-00677-693
Scope and Contents

Wolf writes that "the Asian appearance of the text is created by overprinting a German text, inspired by stories told by the artist's German speaking son, who lives as a journalist in Hong Kong." Five distinct, folded booklets are fastened to the front (black) and back (red) covers; there is no spine. The book is wrapped with 2 colored paper tapes which are held by the long wooden stick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Horizons: The Alphabet Project. No.3 / Diane Samuels., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-28945-30276
Scope and Contents

Samuels discusses how she made the Alphabet Project. A unique book with the same title and content is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Horndeski Sampler # 1, 1993

 Item — Box 89: [Barcode: 31858072538188]
Identifier: CC-09590-9781
Scope and Contents

This work was commissioned by the Sackner Archive to include a sampler of Horndeski's work. The theme is a couple who appear on the top of the box reading in their library with the sky outside their windows reminiscent of Van Gough's Starry Night. The top of the box depicts a fragment of a music score by Vivaldi and the sides calligraphic text and diagrams on Michaelson's theory of light and distance; all paintings are landscapes that relate to the couple's activities near their house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Household Hints, 1980

 Item — Box 192: [Barcode: 31858072459625]
Identifier: CC-19883-20271
Scope and Contents

Deals with practices that make for a neat household. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980