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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Instructions Number Eight / Collins, Patricia., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35187-36921
Scope and Contents

The instructions in visual/verbal format refer mainly to health related measures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Interchange for John Cage [Zora Gallery Version] / Hirschman, Jack A.; Cage J., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-29706-31081
Scope and Contents

This story is about a day spent driving an automobile on a Los Angeles freeway was designed in the style of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. The Sackner Archive also holds the archive for this work. One typed manuscript has the layout but not the typographic appearance of the published work. The other two that are handwritten provide that appearance. The basis for the writing of this work is discussed by Hirschman in Kulchur No.14, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

International Artists'-Magazines / Jurgen O. Olbrich, curator ; Olbrich JO ; Dittmar R ; Cardella J ; Baroni V ; Meade R ; Deisler G ; Petasz P., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-08441-8608
Scope and Contents

Jurgen Olbrich curated this exhibition of the following periodicals, all held by the Sackner Archive, e.g. Entwerter/Oder, Art/Life, Tiegel&Tumult, Arte Postale, Collective Copy, Eins von Hundert, Data File, Uni/Vers (;), and Commonpress. DOOs was also exhibited but is not held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Interrupted Reading, 1983

 Item — Box 273: [Barcode: 31858072460904]
Identifier: CC-59080-57393
Scope and Contents

This book object is the first artwork of Jackman's that the Sackners purchased. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Intimations of Infinity: An Homage to Mark Tobey, 1993

 Item — Box 306: [Barcode: 31858073143608]
Identifier: CC-27500-28550
Scope and Contents

Each drawing is affixed to the right hand side of the black paper page. Straus produces a dazzling display of drawings in the spirit of the American abstract expressionist/calligraphic painter, Mark Tobey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Inventing the Book / Accomando, Claire Hsu; Carrion U; Paz O; Ehrenberg F., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-24809-25262
Scope and Contents

Review of "Alternative Books/Libros Alternativos" at Southwestern College, Chula Vista, California. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Investigations in Cities 1977-1997 / Tilson, Jake ; Tilson Jo., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-33050-34675
Scope and Contents

A biography of Tilson is printed on each page of the catalogue with the art projects created during that time frame. Photographic reproductions of pages from Tilson's periodicals, Cipher and Atlas, are included in this catalogue. These periodicals are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

iRiS, 1996

 Item — Box 176: [Barcode: 31858072459336]
Identifier: CC-27531-28597
Scope and Contents

The theme of this work is the Iris flower and most pages depict drawn abstractions of the flower in gray-black colors. The latter is an unexplained contradiction to the purple colors of the flower. The folder enclosing the pamphlets, pages, and drawings is inserted into an enclosure in the rectangular shaped earthy, ceramic vase which has another round enclosure for an artificial Iris flower with its stem. A polaroid photograph depicts the process of how the drawing was made - by rubbing the flower over paper to form the word "Iris" from its pigments.Also designated No.2/Tome 11 in the series ARTCI-BLE Petits Dictionnaires Portatifs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Iron Fist in Yr Yellow Chakra, 1998

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-29776-31154
Scope and Contents This book is composed of calligraphic drawings, one to a card, that repetitively presents the title phrase in extremely varied letter styles and sizes using ink, paint, and graphite. Chakra is a word from Yoga that refers to any of the six points along the spine that are supposed to contain certain powers, persinified by Gods and able to be released through the proper exercises. The title phrase is occasionally modified with another word, e.g., "Iron Fuckin Fist In Yr Fuckin Yellow Fuckin Goddamn Chakra." The cards are a masterpiece of experimental calligraphy. The green corrugated cardboard box holding the cards was made by Sloy's husband, Nicholas. Richard Ovenden, Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, described the preparation of the cards by sloy. "The artist put blank paper through a press wiha clean plate to create a border indentation (the blank plate mark) to make the work look like an engraving. This technique was used by printers in the 19th...
Dates: 1998

Ironbook / Jack A. Hirschman., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09308-9491
Scope and Contents

The structure is suggestive of a library of a prison; the background calligraphic markings resemble Canaanite language. The poem is about liberty. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Ironbook / Jack A. Hirschman., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09308-9491
Scope and Contents

The structure is suggestive of a library of a prison; the background calligraphic markings resemble Canaanite language. The poem is about liberty. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Is This Philately? / Shapiro, Mimi., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02418-2458
Scope and Contents

The stamps are commercial stamps for acquisition or purchase of goods like coupons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

It: A Poem/Play/Installation / Gordon, Coco., 1987

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Identifier: CC-53395-60969
Scope and Contents

According to Gordon in this book, it is a 12 foot tall sculpture of a lobster (?) that is centered around an absurd play documented in this book. Further, the play has been performed in various locals. This book is also designated Intimate #9. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[It was so sweet...], 1996

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-16388-16738
Scope and Contents

A thank you presentation from Doner to the Sackners in the form of a wedge shaped book, tied and wrapped, containing examples of Doner's ideogramatic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Italia, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09886-10082
Scope and Contents

The collage depicts Hansen's typical image of Venus of Willendorf made with gold foil. The outline material is the basis of the collage on the final page. The two center pages are photographic colored portraits of Hansen, one of which is a double exposure showing Hansen within his studio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Italian Lesson No.4 / Van Horn, Erica., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-35903-37666
Scope and Contents

The booklet documents a part of her life during her stay in Florence, Italy whe she worked with her husband, Simon Cutts, in an art gallery there. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990