The Altered Page

Selections from The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Support for Center for Book Arts’ visual arts programming is provided, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Exhibition Checklist:

Denise  Aubertin

Fantastique Journee
(1984) Hard cover book with mixed media pages; 5 leaves. Signed. 1984(?).

Anthony  Austin

Ways and Means of Leaving the Planet Earth
(1982) Hard cover book with laminated drawings; 19 leaves. Signed.

Lynne  Avadenka

Book of Ruth, The
(1987) Metal box with assemblage and drawing; 2 leaves.

Vittore  Baroni

Book of Devotions
(1983) Hard cover book with mixed media pages; 10 leaves. Signed.

Hands No. 5
Collage.

Poesia Visiva
(1984) Collage. Signed.

Uwe  Bremer

Die Beatles: All you need is love!
(1968) Hard cover book with cut and collaged printed pages; 32 leaves. Signed.

John Eric  Broaddus

Juniper Muse
(1983) (Exhibition) Media: Acrylic, ink, glitter, pencil, tempera, watercolor, xerox, paper, upsom board, glass, fabric.

Xylocaine
(1982) (Exhibition) Media: Acrylic, ink, glitter, pencil, tempera, watercolor, xerox, paper, upsom board, glass, fabric.

Marcel  Broodthaers

Un Coup De Des Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard
(1969) Soft cover book with transparent printed pages; 25 leaves. Initialled.

Bob  Brown

Gems
(1931) Soft cover book with printed pages; 55 leaves.

Martha  Carothers

It’s Written All Over Your Face
(1983) Hard cover book with perforated and collaged printed pages; 51 leaves. Signed.

Luciano  Caruso

(Molotov E Un Editore)
(1973) Soft cover book with collages; 26 leaves. Signed.

Palimsesto e.p. canto CXVI
(1984) Soft cover book with collage and drawing; 32 leaves. Signed.

Quaderno
(1982) Soft cover book with painted, handwritten, collaged pages; 47 leaves. Signed.

Sur Les Epaves Du Monstrelettre
(1969) Hard cover book with painted printed pages; 34 leaves. Signed.

Christopher Harmond  Cheung

Ville de Paris Telephone Book
Soft cover book with 63 painted printed pages; 584 leaves. Signed.

Joelle  Dautricourt

Livre Mache No. 8
(1980) Handwritten collaged and burnt glued pages; 1 leaf. Signed.

Augusto  De Campo

Poemobiles
(1974) Cardboard box with 13 pop-ups and texts.

Albert  Dupont

Les Sens Interdits
(1980) Soft cover book with mixed media printed pages; 12 leaves. Signed.

Timothy C.  Ely

Open Hand Discovers, The
(1984) Hard cover book, uniquely bound by Ely, containing painted, cut and perforated pages; 5 leaves. Signed.

Luigi  Fagioli

Untitled
(1982) Soft cover book with watercolored markings on printed pages; 6 leaves. Signed.

Dikko  Faust

Book Makers: Center for Book Arts First Five Years
(1979) Print. Signed.

Vincenzo  Ferrari

Scatola
(1981) Hardcover book utilizing mixed media and pop-ups; 5 leaves. Signed.

Ian Hamilton  Finlay

Canal Game
(1967) Soft cover with cut printed pages; 7 leaves.

Jane  Freeman

White Birds: Homage to Miriam
(1977) Hard over book with woven collage and mixed media pages; 19 leaves. Signed.

Philip  Gallo

Poem on Hosho
(1979) Small plastic box with crumpled printed page.

Vida  Hackman

Streamers
(1985) Wooden box, with attached fishing flies containing cut, printed pages.

Wolfgang  Hainke

Denken ja Handeln?
(1986) Soft cover book with collaged, printed pages.

Bernard  Heidsieck

Dans Le Labyrinthe
(1985) Hard cover accordion book with oddly shaped drawn and collaged pages; 6 leaves.

Jack  Hirschman

Page from a Book
(1966) Three handwritten, painted and collaged drawings from a total of 37 drawings. Initialled

Arnold  Iger

Dreams From Le Menage a Trois (22-6-85)
(1985) Collaged and mixed media drawing; 1 leaf.

Basia  Irland

First Experiences of a Starlight Night
(1981) Hard cover book with rolled, drawn, printed pages and thread; 30 leaves. Signed.

Emilio  Isgro

La Bella Addormentata Nel Bosco
(1972) Soft cover book with printed pages; 18 leaves. Signed.

Sandra  Jackman

Interrupted Reading
(1983) Wooden box with assemblage. Signed.

Alastair  Johnston

Secretum Iter Et Fallentis Semita Vitae
(1983) Basingwek parchment, accordion spine. Soft cover book with perforated printed pages; 8 leaves. Book 3/5 in The Altered Page.

Vasily  Kamensky

Naked One Among The Clad, The
(1914) Soft cover five sided book printed on wallpaper, restored by Tom Schmidt (1981); 14 leaves. Edition: 30 or 300

Agathe Eristov Gengis  Khan

Porquoi
(1984) Hard cover book with thread, ink drawings and collages on printed pages; 478 leaves. Signed.

Untitled
(1984) Opened hard cover book with bound, woven, cut and folded, inked drawn, printed pages. Initialled.

Ronald  King

Bluebeard’s Castle
(1972) MONUMENTAL BOOKS Verse by Roy Fisher, designed by Ronald King. Illustrated with nine pop-up designs printed in 75 silkscreenings. This notable book is inspired by the famous Bartok/Maeterlinck operatic telling of the Bluebeard story. All of the constructed images are made to symbolize each scene represented by the secret rooms. The multicolor pop-ups, together with the varied types, are interspersed and interactive which result in a surprise in each fascicle. Now over a quarter of century old, this publication is a pure delight and of great interest to members of The Movable Book Society (which is organized to provide a forum for the greater appreciation of paper engineering and for pop-up creations in particular).

Dina  Knapp

Memory
(1987) Transparent plastic envelope with sewn and collaged transparent plastic pages; 6 leaves. Signed.

Jeffrey  Knapp

Memory
(1987) Transparent plastic envelope with sewn and collaged transparent plastic pages; 6 leaves. Signed.

J. H.  Kocman

Paper Re-Making Book No. 089 (The Metamorphosis)
(1981) Cardboard case containing soft cover book with handmade paper pages and soft cover trade edition (Schocken Books) of Kafka’s Metamorphosis; 12 leaves in the unique book. Signed.

Jiri  Kolar

Bought Love (from Exposition Itinerante Des Dictions, Plexiglas box containing 25 collages)
Collage. Signed.

Catalogue by Jindrich Chalupecky
(1987) XII/L (ler tirage “defectueux”). Soft cover with torn, cut, perforated, crumpled, and collaged printed pages; 124 leaves. Signed.

Lada with Words (from Exposition Itinerante Des Dictions, Plexiglas box containing 25 collages)
(1979) Collage. Signed.

One of the Faces of Silence (from Exposition Itinerante Des Dictions, Plexiglas box containing 24 collages)
(1980) Collage. Signed.

Thirst (from Exposition Itinerante Des Dictions, Plexiglas box containing 25 collages)
(1981) Collage. Signed.

Untitled
(1967) Hard cover book, uniquely bound by Pella Erskine-Tulloch, containing cut, torn and perforated typewritten pages; 9 leaves. Signed.

Helmut  Löhr

No. 8
(1981) Collage. Signed.

Maria  Lai

Untitled
(1979) Soft cover book with ink and thread drawings; 24 leaves. Signed.

Ruth  Laxson

Measure, Cut, Stitch
(1987) Hard cover book with cut printed pages; 31 leaves. Signed.

New Myth
(1985) Soft cover book with perforated colored drawings; 13 leaves. Signed.

Warren  Lehrer

I Mean You Know
(1983) Hard cover book with printed pages; 76 leaves. Signed.

d. a.  levy

miss america is a virgin
(1968) Collage. Signed.

Stephane  Mallarmé

Un Coup De Dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard
(1914) Soft cover book with printed pages; 15 leaves.

Andrew  Masullo

781 Spanish Composition Book
(1984) Hard cover book with ink calligraphic drawings on printed pages; 99 leaves. Signed.

Brenda  Miller

Sin Remember (From James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
(1986) Plexiglas box with 26 paintings. Signed.

Richard  Minsky

Book Makers: Center for Book Arts First Five Years
(1979) Print. Signed.

Franz  Mon

Untitled
(1965) Decollage. Signed.

Ann  Noel

Conflux
(1984) Cardboard box with ink and watercolor drawings; 58 drawings. Signed.

Jürgen  Olbrich

Denken ja Handeln?
(1986) Soft cover book with collaged, printed pages.

Tom  Phillips

A Humument–Page 85
(1977) Print. Initialled.

A Humument–Page 85 Appearing in OU 42/43/44
(1973) Six prints.

A Humument–Page 85 Humument Supplement
Proof Sheet of six prints. Signed.

A Humument–Page 85 Variant
Print. Signed.

A Humument–Page 85 Variant II
Print. Signed.

A Humument–Page 85 Variant III
(1977) Five prints. Signed.

A Humument–Page 85 Variant III
Print. Signed.

Julio  Plaza

Poemobiles
(1974) Cardboard box with 13 pop-ups and texts.

Lois  Polansky

Book Altar/Altered Dictionary
(1982) Hard cover book uniquely bound by Polansky with handmade paper leaves incorporating collages and drawings; 43 leaves. Signed.

Mehdi  Qotbi

Dans Le Labyrinthe
(1985) Hard cover accordion book with oddly shaped drawn and collaged pages; 6 leaves.

Steve  Random

Aspects of Literature
(1980) Collage on printed page. Signed.

Dieter  Roth

bok 3 b und bok 3 d
(1974) Soft cover book with perforated printed pages; 263 leaves.

Sara  Sackner

Concrete
(1981) Hard cover book with woven collages and painted pages; 11 leaves. Signed.

Ali  Schindehutte

Die Beatles: All you need is love!
(1968) Hard cover book with cut and collaged printed pages; 32 leaves. Signed.

Jill  Sebastian

Last Seen
(1982) Collage on shaped board.

Andreas  Senser

Picture Book
(1982) Accordion book with painted, printed paper strips; 15 leaves. Signed.

Buzz  Spector

Outline of Art, The
(1982) Hard cover book with torn printed pages; 248 leaves. Signed.

Page 29
(1983) Collage. Signed.

Ulrike  Stoltz

Sun Map of Kowloon
(1987) Soft cover book with printed pages; 21 leaves. Signed.

Y.  Taillandier

Indian Express
(1975) Watercolor on newspaper page. Signed.

Cesar  Trasobares

Titian
(1982) Drawing and collage on printed page. Signed.

Johannes  Vennekamp

Die Beatles: All you need is love!
(1968) Hard cover book with cut and collaged printed pages; 32 leaves. Signed.

Charles  Verey

Untitled
Collage.

Untitled
Collage. Initialled.

Dieter  Wagner

Kleine Experimente
(1985) Soft cover book with printed pages; 39 leaves. Signed.

Arno  Waldschmidt

Die Beatles: All you need is love!
(1968) Hard cover book with cut and collaged printed pages; 32 leaves. Signed.

Emmet  Williams

Shakespeare’s XXXth
(1979) E/Z. Five Prints. Signed.

Gil  Wolman

Untitled
Collage and glue on canvas.

Melanie  Wygonik

Playthings for a Retired Philosopher
(1983) Soft cover book with sewn mixed media collages; 8 leaves. Signed.

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