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Artist book (limited edition)

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1479 Collections and/or Records:

Editions Camomille: SWSSSSSSHH. No.21 / Martin Walde., 1994

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Identifier: CC-14395-14704
Scope and Contents

A blue ink drawing at the beginning of the scroll depicts the flame of a candle. The text and silhouetted inages on the remainder of the scroll are executed in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Editions Camomille: {two hundred} 200 Virages Serres. No.2 / Jan Voss., 1988

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Identifier: CC-13468-13770
Scope and Contents The foredge of the book has a drawing which resembles the printed image on the pages. Ketterer Kunst: Jan Voss was born in Hamburg on 9 October 1936. He studied at the Munich Art Academy from 1956 to 1960. In 1966/67 Voss was a guest lecturer at the Hamburg Art Academy. He was a professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1987 and 1992. Work by Voss was shown at the Kunsthalle in Kiel in 1997 and at the Stadtische Galerie Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach in 2002. That same year he had a one-man show at Art Cologne to great critical acclaim. The theme informing Jan Voss's work is 'creating order' in the midst of the perpetually moving chaos of a complex situation. Voss experiments with various different techniques and materials; there are powerfully vibrant works on canvas in saturated colour as well as quiet, narrative works that are more linear than painterly. They contrast sharply with paper reliefs made up collage-like of torn watercolours. What...
Dates: 1988

Editions Camomille: Wocks. No.8 / Urbain Mulkers., 1990

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Identifier: CC-13461-13763
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Cover of book depicts the mathematical symbol for infinity. The box is colllaged inside and outside wiith a map. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Egographie / Devaux, Frederique., 1989

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Identifier: CC-14559-14870
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The binding by Devaux consists of two mirrors with a leather spine; the title of the book is painted onto the mirror with a vertical format twice, one of the titles is a reversed image, i.e., mirror writing. The introductory essay was written by Michel Amarger. The collages in this book consist of fragments of black & white photographs with hand drawn letters, calligraphic markings and hieroglyphics. One of them uses the Hebrew letter 'aleph' as the dominant letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[eight]} 8 / Horwitz, Channa., 1986

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Identifier: CC-59803-59934
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: hanna Horwitz (nee Channa Helene Shapiro, May 21, 1932 -- April 29, 2013) was a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, United States.[1] She is recognized for the logically-derived compositions created over her five decade career. Her visually complex, systematic works are generally structured around linear progressions using the number eight.n 1968, Horwitz (then Channa Davis) submitted a proposal to the seminal Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The proposed sculpture consisted of eight beams moving vertically out of sculptural bases over ten minutes of time, corresponding to a choreography of colored lights. Although the sculpture was never fabricated, Horwitz's proposal was included in the 1970 program catalogue, whose cover prominently displayed the faces of the white male artists whose works appeared in the culminating exhibition at the Museum. Art and Technology's glaring omission of women"”specifically the fact that Horwitz was...
Dates: 1986

Eight Words from a Reading at Brooklyn College / Tuttle, Richard., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01392-1425
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One word is printed in silver ink on each page which is bordered by a hand drawn black rectangular shape. The words read: impasto, seven, display, actual, sparkles,action, accurate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Electric Samsara Lightbook, 1981

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Identifier: CC-27155-27630
Scope and Contents

The font of the letters on the pages has been taken from game of Scrabble. The cover is labeled in crayon as Silkscreen by Miekel And. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Elegie / Garnier, Pierre ; Nikonova, Rea ; Segay, Serge., 1995

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Identifier: CC-10623-10832
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The theme of this book relates to the Christian religion and the clocks depicted in it represent different times of the day as a metaphor for the Stations of the Cross. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Elegy for the Republic / Dombrowski, Bob., 1990

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Identifier: CC-14535-14846
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This images in this book are based upon Motherwell's "Elegy for the Spanish Republic." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

En Espera / Mrain, Manuel., 1985

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Identifier: CC-30346-31760
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Two phrases are placed on each page, above and below abstract, figurative rubberstamped images -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Entwerter/Oder Sonderausgabe: Eine Ethnische Sauberung.... No.16 / Hartmut Andryczuk., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14312-14620
Scope and Contents

Each page was printed from drawings done directly on zinc plates. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995