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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1479 Collections and/or Records:

Foules [Deluxe Copy] / Heidsieck, Bernard., 1974

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Identifier: CC-53885-58152
Scope and Contents

The ordinary and deluxe copies that are both held by the Sackner Archive do not differ except that the deluxe copy has an original collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Found Poems, 1990 - 1994

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Identifier: CC-10488-10692
Scope and Contents

In the colophon, Gallo mentions that the production of this book was made possible in part due to a grant from the Sackner Archive. The binding was done by Daniel Kelm. Each page has a single poem that was printed letterpress or from plates generated thru Alphatype or Postscript applications. The Archive for this book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990 - 1994

Found Poetry / Deisler, Guillermo., 1991

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Identifier: CC-16328-16678
Scope and Contents

Pages are different sizes and were assembled from magazines, books, postcards, and advertisements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Four / Lisboa, Unhandeijara., 1979

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Identifier: CC-31150-32618
Scope and Contents

The pages were cut from a popular periodical, possibly "Time" and a circular hole made in the middle; the silvef foil was inserted midway in the book to give an image of a silver circle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Fragments / Carbone, Denise., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33892-35564
Scope and Contents

The main text on each page is printed in black ink with wood blocks. The smaller text is letterpress in red ink. Each page contains a collage of found fragments enclosed with acetate. Carbone writes in the colophon that we should "observe each piece, bit, scrap, chip, sliver, particle - reduced to tarnished, withered, warped, punctured, frayed, mared, burned, brused, violated, gnawed, impaired, dog-eared, decrepted, corroded, fragments." The book is printed on artwax brown paper (kraft paper) that imparts a pleasant, waxy smell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Frammento Superstite e Perclusus / Caruso, Luciano ; Rocca, Roberta., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39301-41248
Scope and Contents

Caruso wrote the poem printed on the first page and Roberta Rocca created the collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

From A to Z [reprint], 2012

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Identifier: CC-60050-10003083
Scope and Contents This book is a semi-autobiographical novel dealing with romance, self revelation, and poets and writers in her life while she lived in San Francisco bay area as expressed with "tour de force" experimental typography and layout. Drucker purchased a variety of cold typefaces for letterpress printing and set out to use the entire set in writing this book. As a reviewer writes, "Linguistic architecture in the personal voice as manifest in particular elements of vigorous typographic representation." In a personal communication to the Sackners, Drucker stated that 100 copies were intended but only 96 were actually collated.The following explanation of the book as copied from a 10 typed page letter, dated January 1979, addressed to Mr Groenendijk, a collector living in Amsterdam, is reproduced below. This letter is held by the Sackner Archive - the Sackners sent a copy to Johanna Drucker after a personal communication revealed that she did not have a copy in her possession.I did this book...
Dates: 2012

From Now / Drucker, Johanna., 2005

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Identifier: CC-46622-49352
Scope and Contents

This book encompasses at least four non-sequential story lines as denoted by a typographic style for each one. One phrase in the book may have originated from a conversation that Marvin Sackner had with Johanna Drucker, "Meyer Lansky read the dictionary and the Rand reports." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

From Now / Drucker, Johanna., 2005

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Identifier: CC-46623-49353
Scope and Contents

This book encompasses at least four non-sequential story lines as denoted by a typographic style for each one. One phrase in the book may have originated from a conversation that Marvin Sackner had with Johanna Drucker, "Meyer Lansky read the dictionary and the Rand reports." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Fukujuso / Die Reiche Neuling / Wagner, Dieter., 1984

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Identifier: CC-40923-42900
Scope and Contents

Words and letters are silkscreened onto cut pages of a German residential telephone directory. The letters are a surrogate for Japanese words for a book published in the Edo period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984