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  The Inner Shrine

  Jan Baker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Altered book created by Jan Baker (1950-2018). Jan Baker was an accomplished artist and RISD Professor of Graphic Design (1981-2017) guiding students through book arts, letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department. For 37 years, she infused her classes and the campus community with the magic and meaning that comes from the handmade. Lettering, cutting, folding, binding, inventing, collecting - these were some of Jan's favorite things. Read more">. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  The Little Poems of Barbara Erskine

  Jan Baker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Altered book created by Jan Baker (1950-2018). Jan Baker was an accomplished artist and RISD Professor of Graphic Design (1981-2017) guiding students through book arts, letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department. For 37 years, she infused her classes and the campus community with the magic and meaning that comes from the handmade. Lettering, cutting, folding, binding, inventing, collecting - these were some of Jan's favorite things. Read more">. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  The Running of the Tide

  Jan Baker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Altered book created by Jan Baker (1950-2018). Jan Baker was an accomplished artist and RISD Professor of Graphic Design (1981-2017) guiding students through book arts, letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department. For 37 years, she infused her classes and the campus community with the magic and meaning that comes from the handmade. Lettering, cutting, folding, binding, inventing, collecting - these were some of Jan's favorite things. Read more">. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  Stacked & Altered | Stacks of Books by Jared Bark and Altered Books from Special Collections

  Special Collections, Jared Bark, and Fleet Library

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  A Humument : A Treated Victorian Novel

  Thomas Phillips, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  367 pages : color illustrations "In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page, by painting, collage or cut-up techniques, to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junk shop on Peckham Rye, south London. It was A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock. First published in 1973, A Humument--as Phillips titled his altered book--quickly established itself as a cult classic. Since then, Phillips has been working towards a complete revision of the original A Humument, replacing pages in successive editions. This process is now finished. This final edition presents, for the first time, an entirely revised and complete version of A Humument and brings to a close half a century of artistic endeavor"--Front jacket flap. A revised version of an altered book created by Tom Phillips, using a copy of William Hurrell Mallock's novel "A human document". Case bound in light brown cloth-covered boards with blue and purple headbands. Title stamped in white on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes "Notes on A humument" by Tom Phillips on 14 unnumbered pages following the text. Previous edition: 2012. Designed by Alice Wood. Gift of the RISD Museum. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Bottom of the Lake = Fond du Lac

  Christian Patterson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  68, 175 pages : illustrations (some color). Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac, printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with Patterson's own drawings, photographs and marginalia. Bottom of the Lake is a book within a book that carefully combines the original, found, fact-based phone book with the artist's highly subjective re-imagination of his hometown; it playfully juxtaposes different documentary forms and ways of seeing to create a deeply personal, darkly humorous other book. In addition, the experience of the book is extended beyond its pages by an interactive feature -- a telephone number attached to the book that connects users with over 100 experiences mixing field audio recordings, found archival audio and performances that re-imagine and re-create the artist's hometown. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  The End of the Wasp Season

  Erin K. Schmidt, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 artists' book. Edition of three numbered and signed copies. Title, artist's name, edition statement, and artist's email address written in pencil on paper board which attaches the cover boards in place. Publication date from artist's invoice. "The title of this work is taken from the title of the book 'the end of wasp season' which has been altered into the form of a wasp nest. Nine small whirlwind bound books are nestled into the brood cells, tucked away like larvae. Within the brood cells images of wasps have been rubber stamped in social groupings, but their numbers decrease leaving very few wasps in the cells at the end of the book. The nine small books address the issue of pesticide use. The first page of each book incites an immediate visceral response to a wasp encounter. The second and third pages consider prenatal exposure to a common household pesticide synergist, piperonyl butoxide, and its harmful effects on neurodevelopment as discussed in studies published in the Journal of American Academy of Pediatrics and Environmental Health Perspectives."--Artists' statement. "The imagery used in the nine small books are manipulated ultrasound images of both of my children."--Artists' statement. Library has copy no. 1. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  2nd Hand Reading

  William Kentridge, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations. Reproduction of an altered book created by drawing and painting in a copy of The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Second Edition, volume I, A-M, 1936. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Fabrik

  Linda Welch, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  84 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Title from book cover. Unique artist book, signed by artist on page [3] of cover. Coptic binding. Pages incorporate acrylic painting, screen print ink, found papers, book board. "A visual flipbook of text, color and pattern," this one-of-a-kind painted book is by Linda Welch. Her abstract, layered, mixed media books incorporate oil painting, collage, screen printing, found book pages and wax."--23 Sandy Gallery website. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  S.

  J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  xiv, 456 pages : illustrations. Konfidentiell letter (2 leaves) [insert between pages viii-ix] + Pollard State University : VMS accused of ... (1 leaf) [insert between pages 10-11] + Xerox copy of journal article (1 leaf) [insert between pages 20-21] + Newspaper clipping (2 pages) [insert between pages 32 -33] + Telegram (2 leaves) [insert between pages 54-55] + 1 newspaper clipping/memo (1 leaf) [insert between pages 68-69] + Letter from Desjardins (1 leaf) [insert between pages 86-87] + Letter from Jen (4 pages) [insert between pages 100-101] + 1 Brazil postcard [insert between pages 112-113] + 1 photograph of stone wall [insert between pages 130-131] + 1 Birds of Brazil postcard [insert between pages 178-179] + 1 postcard of palms [insert between pages 190-191] + 1 postcard of a beach [insert between pages 192-193] + 1 Pictorial Brazil postcard (20 April near Marau) [insert between pages 200-201] + So ... My Uncle Zeke (5 pages) [insert between pages 202-203] + 1 photograph of woman [insert between pages 242-243] + 1 newspaper clipping within 1 greeting card [insert between pages 256-257] + 1 map on napkin [insert between pages 306-307] + 1 in memoriam card [insert between pages 360-361] + Letter from J (4 pages) [insert between pages 376-377] + Letter from Esmerlinda Pega (1 leaf) [insert between pages 416-417] + 1 decoder wheel [insert between end leaf and pages 3 of cover]. Altered book. Issued in slipcase. Title and statement of responsibility from slipcase. "Bad Robot, Melcher Media."--Spine of slipcase. Title page and cover title of volume inside slipcase: Ship of Theseus / V.M. Straka. Imprint on title page: Winged Shoes Press, New York, 1949. Title page and page [3] of cover printed with "stamps" of Laguna Verde High School Library; spine includes a Dewey call number label. Includes 23 items purporting to be documents concerning the "author," V.M. Straka, and his "translator," F.X. Caldeira from the Straka Arkiv; decoding wheel, letters, postcards and notes by the "readers," Jennifer and Eric; and other related materials. Marginalia printed in various colors. "A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. The book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V.M. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched onto a disorienting and perilous journey. The writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumors that swirl around him. The readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts, and fears."--Slipcase. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  The Historian : A Novel

  Elizabeth Kostova, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 book object. Altered book by unknown book artist. After page [iix] the remainder of the text is cut-out. A 19.5 x 9.5 window has been carved into the text block. A text message which begins, "My dear and unfortunate sucessor: ..." is printed on various raised lines of text which read from top to bottom. Original book was published: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2005. Map on lining-paper. Gift of Jan Baker. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Strawberry Hill

  Horace Walpole, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  xv, 368 p. : col. ill., plans. "In association with the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Yale Center for British Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. ""This publication accompanies the exhibition Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill organized by the Lewis Walpole Library, the Yale Center for British Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum""--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index." Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Farewell to Sport

  Paul Gallico, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 book object. Altered book, all pages after page 15 are glued together into one block, these pages have two rectangular compartments carved-out and contain an empty box of Camel cigarettes and a blue Bic disposable lighter. Inside front cover has a paper label glued in with printed initials: SPC. Below the label written in pencil is 2008. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1938, this book is the 4th printing October 1941. Book is open to chapter two with chapter title: Who do you think you are --Dempsey? Gift of Jan Baker. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Time Square

  Buzz Spector, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  screw post binding with mylar front cover, and paper wrapper; cover; detail. Results from a Google search of phrases relating to the concept of "time" were quantified and arranged in decreasing order and printed on 60 pages. When bound, the pages were then hand torn in decreasing amounts, revealing an altered version of the original. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Nets

  Jen Bervin, unkown RISD student, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  150 leaves. The texts of Shakespeare's 150 sonnets have been "stripped ... bare ... to make the space of the poems open, porous, possible ..."--Working note. The full text of Shakespeare is printed in light gray type, with the author's selected words printed in darker type. The title is derived in this manner from the word Sonnets. Library has a 2nd copy in Artists' Books: B458Ne. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Aunt Sallie's Lament (Altered)

  Margaret Kaufman, Claire Van Vliet, Ellen Dorn Levitt, Audrey Holden, Mary Richardson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [24] pages : mounted color illustrations. "Limited edition of 120 copies signed by Claire Van Vliet, Mary Richardson, Audrey Holden and E.D. Levitt. ""This edition was made using the Permalin text block of the 1993 edition by Chronicle Books ... The design was made with Ellen Dorn Levitt and Audrey Holden who did most of the assembly and made the boxes with Mary Richardson.""--Colophon. Book bound in a diamond-shape with the left point blunted for the spine. Each page is a different combination of colors and geometric shapes resembling quilt blocks. Additional Japanese and handmade papers added to this edition. Issued in a drop-spine box (31 cm.) covered with quilt-type fabric. Library has copy no. 48."

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  Everyday Problems of American Democracy

  John Thomas Greenan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 book object. Altered book by an anonymous RISD Illustration Studies student. Unique book. The cover of the book, "Everyday problems of American Democracy" was used to create an artists' book with a new text block. The new text is primarily a repeating sentence reading, "It's gotten so, everyone thinks they're someone" The book has a hand-stamped spine label and a date due slip, with dates stamped from October 26, 1971 to March 22, 1997. Original book was published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940. This book was created by a RISD Illustration Studies student and placed in the library stacks as part of a class assignment. The book was found by a shelver because the call number "looked different" from those printed labels typically attached to our books. The reference librarian at the time, Laurie Whitehill, remembers the student coming into the library and asking for the book by it's call number. She remembered the book and found out about the project from the student who had created it. Laurie took down the student's name, but he asked that his name not be listed on the book's catalog record until he graduated. The slip of paper with the student's name was later lost. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Book of Hours #51 Turkish Suite (As Theodora)

  Sherrill Edwards Hunnibel, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 book object : color illustration. Altered book, mounted in acrylic case. The pages are sealed together to form a base for construction. Mixed media, collage, and assemblage techniques. Book cover is mounted to the acrylic backing with one rivet in each corner. Title information from back of case. Signed and dated on back. RISD Alumna, gift of the artist. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  A Passage

  Buzz Spector, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  case bound in hard cover with silk covered boards; cover; top view of text block; interior pages and spreads, detail; colophon. Book consists of 181 identical pages bound and torn vertically by the artist. The page stubs gradually increase and the resulting text block forms a triangular shape. Content of the text is blurry until the full pages can be completely read. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Altered Book

  Unknown. Possibly RISD Student., Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 object. Altered book, consists of a portion of the spine (blue buckram) and a small part of the text block. Portions of words and illustrations can be seen as pages are flipped. Possibly made by a Rhode Island School of Design student. Donated to the library by Jan Baker, a former graphic design instructor who taught classes in artists' books. Case binding. Text in English. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Security

  David Albertson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [30] pages : illustrations (one mounted). Cloth cover with title embossed on front. Silver front endpapers. Black text pages with lettering and illustrations printed in silver. Some pages have cut-outs. Mounted illustration is a copy of a photograph by Weegee. Laid-in cut-out space is a plastic toy pistol. This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  A Humument

  Tom Phillips, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  367 pages : color illus. ; 18 cm. "After its first publication in book form in 1980, 'A Humument' rapidly became a cult classic. This new revised edition incorporates over fifty entirely new pages."--inside front cover. Gift of the RISD Museum. "A Humument has been a work in progress since 1966 when artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version. The book he found was an 1892 Victorian obscurity A Human Document by W.H. Mallock and Phillips transformed it into A Humument. The first version was printed by the Tetrad press in 1973, and Phillips has continued to transform it, revise it and develop it ever since." -- Artist website (https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/humument). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  We Took to the Woods

  Louise Dickinson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 book object. Altered book by unknown book artist, possibly RISD student? At page 30, which is the beginning of chapter II, entitled: "But how do you make a living?" the remainder of the text block is cut-out and the bottom and sides of the remaining pages are lined with narrow pieces of bamboo. Original book was published: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., 1942. Map on lining-paper. Gift of Jan Baker. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  The Flood | Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6

  Kelie Bowman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  #15. 1 of 32 publications in the Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6. Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6 curated by Cinders Gallery, contains 32 individual artists' books and zines by various artists, produced between 2007-2014. Mediums include: inkjet, hand painting, silkscreen, photocopy, collage, digital print, photo, pencil, ink. Bindings include: hand sewn, stapled, pamphlet. CONTENTS 1. Illnesstrations / Mike Taylor -- 2. Who's Gonna Empty the Catbox??? / Mel Kadel and Travis Millard -- 3. 14 regular polygons approach a circle / Karl Larocca -- 4. Vehicles of the Ancients / Mike Pare -- 5. Black Hair / Chris Uphues -- 6. Gaylord Phoenix / Edie Fake -- 7. Haunted Forest / Mickey Z. -- 8. When prophency meets proof / Ben Beaudoin -- 9. Dawn / Baron Von Wuste and Eli Lehrhoff -- 10. Pasado-Oscuro / Juan Echeverry -- 11. Motors / Gary Kachadourian -- 12. Lichen Ocean / Allyson and Jeremy -- 13. Rav #8 / Mickey Zachilli -- 14. Limitless Range / Kelie Bowman -- 15. The Flood / Kelie Bowman -- 16. Advertisement catalogue 2009 / Noel Friebert -- 17. Corp Real Breach / Chris Day -- 18. Combining Our Explosives / Sto Len -- 19. SETI / Ben Voss -- 20. Ecstatic Peace #5 / Various -- 21. Sleep Talking / Todd Jordan -- 22. Window Washer / CF and Mikey Z -- 23. The Spirit World II / Conor Stechschulte -- 24. My Best Pet / Noela Freibert -- 25. Pixel Junk Destructoid / Pakito Bolino -- 26. Untitled book / Sto Len -- 27. Daybook / Kelie Bowman -- 28. Mr. Cellar's Attic / Mr. Freibert -- 29. What Kind of Magic Spell to Use? / Matthew Thurber -- 30. Followers of Sound / Chris Duncan, Rich Jacobs, Andrew M Scott -- 31. Deelimoo Dee / Moulinex -- 32. Whack / Lump Collective. NOTE Accompanied by an [8] page ([5] leaves) list of contents, listing edition numbers, dates of publication, paginations, mediums, etc. Housed in archival cardboard box with space dividers and illustrated title sheet mounted on cover. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.