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Artist book

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Kurz und Schmerzgedichte / Breuer, Theo., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-38653-40563
Scope and Contents

The book includes four photocopied linocuts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Kyoto Grids / Margaret Ahrens Sahlstrand., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-59304-66276
Scope and Contents

The Sackners were impressed by the even grid layout of the streets of Kyoto and the artist has captured this theme with her books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

La Chasse Spirituelle / Albert Dupont., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-14801-15114
Scope and Contents

This book was made to honor the centenary of the birth of Arthur Rimbaud. The images are collaged to the 50 keys of a restored child's game. One image is collaged to the visible part of each key. Depression of the key, which is hinged, brings up two additional images, viz., one collaged to its undersurface, the other collaged to the surface that was covered by the upper part. The box of this object is covered by black cloth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

La Chasse Spirituelle / Albert Dupont., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-14801-15114
Scope and Contents

This book was made to honor the centenary of the birth of Arthur Rimbaud. The images are collaged to the 50 keys of a restored child's game. One image is collaged to the visible part of each key. Depression of the key, which is hinged, brings up two additional images, viz., one collaged to its undersurface, the other collaged to the surface that was covered by the upper part. The box of this object is covered by black cloth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

La Cultura del Caos / Cancelli, Mino., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28452-29720
Scope and Contents

This book appears to be a collection of pages that were misprints from an auction catalogue. Images from the items offered, furniture and accessories are superimposed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

La Guerilla Des Ecritures / Villegle, Jacques., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-49972-71031
Scope and Contents

This might be the sketch book for Villegle's installations at Renne and Paris in 1982; see the essay by Kaira Cabanas in Villegle 2007 (book held by the Sackner Archive), page 116. However, none of these two images are depicted in this book. Cabanas commented that this work has a commonality with Jenny Holzer's "Truisms." The back cover depicts a silhouette profile of Villegle with a hat stencilled in black ink, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

La Morte del Libro / Pini, Erica Moira., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28454-29722
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book, which are completely blank, are punctured in three places on each page throughout it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Là Onde / Lora-Totino, Arrigo., 2001

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-36468-38263
Scope and Contents

The title of this book refers to waves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

LA REPETITION: de l'art des combinaisons: de la machina a la main: le mot le trace l'erraur / Mairey, Francoise., 2014

 Item
Identifier: CC-58714-10001946
Scope and Contents

The page count is only the original handwritten ink pages not the bleed-throughs. This book includes a collection of varations of individual letters: 1) letter 'a' five pages, 2) letter 'i' five pages, 3) letter 'o' five pages, 4) letter 'u' five pages, 5) letter 'b' three pages, 6) letter c' three pages, 7) letter 'd' three pages, 8) letter 'g' three pages, 9) letter 'h' three pages, 10) letter 'l' five pages. The images of this record depict the variations for the letters 'd' and 'l.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014