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  S.

  J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst

  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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  Unfolding Poems

  Michele Wong Albanese, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 box (with 8 individual pieces). Wild cats can / Mary-Ann Agresti ([1] folded leaf of plate : all illustrations ; 11 cm) -- I wonder / Ruth Ellen Baxter (1 volume (without pages) : all illustrations ; 11 cm) -- Personal effects / Marcia Ciro ([1] folded leaf (pop-up) ; 11 cm) -- In my hands / Tamara Oppenheimer ([1] folded leaf (with movable parts) : all illustrations ; 11 cm) -- Meditations on leaving / Deborah Klotz-Paris (1 box (with text on ribbon) : chiefly illustrations ; 11 x 11 x 6 cm) -- Vacuum sealed / Teresa Shields ([2] folded leaves of plates ; 11 cm) --Beyond the Museum of Fine Arts / Stephanie Mahan Stigliano ([8] leaves of plates (accordion layout) ; 11 cm) -- On South Cape Beach / Janine Wong ([10] leaves of plates (accordion layout) ; 10 cm). Edition of 27 copies. A collaboration between one poet and eight artists. Each book contained in the box presents a different poem as interpreted by the artist. Printing includes letterpress, silkscreen, inkjet, photocopy transfer on various papers and ribbon, metal, glass, and fabric. Bindings include accordion and flag. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of Marcia Ciro, RISD Alumna, GD BFA, 1977.

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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 Thousand Starlings

  Rhiannon Alpers, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 20 pages. Date of publication from colophon. "This book was inspired by sleep-deprived dreams as a new mother in the Summer of 2016. Written, illustrated, and printed by Rhiannon Alpers. Letterpress printed with photopolymer plates and monotype, with an under layer of hand painted stars beneath, on Somerset Velvet Black."--Colophon. Rhiannon Alpers: "The book explores an imagined journey, being carried through the comfort of ones dreams. A journey guided by a murmuration of a thousand starlings, undulating and wisping through the evening sky, their soft voices calming and cooing as they head into the unknown. "Metaphors abound in this book. The support system of family and friends manifests in the starlings, and the twilight evokes a sense of comfort and stability amidst the unknown. The many threads pulling the dreamer along in this world are the guiding voices that safely and carefully show us our way. When we steer off course they gently nudge us and support us as we explore an unknown route. Murmurations themselves have an astonishing and dreamlike effect. Their immense rhythm and flow symbolizes the thin line between the dream and day. "Much of the symbolism also stems from the authors rekindled interest in the long tradition of fables, passed on in her new nightly rituals of telling stories to small ears and eager eyes in the low light of the evening. It is in these final hours that our day fades away and our imagination is carried off to many wondrous places."--Vamp and Tramp bookseller website. One of 30 signed and numbered copies. Flutter accordion construction. Letterpress printed with photopolymer plates and monotype, with an under layer of hand painted stars beneath, on Somerset Velvet Black paper. The endsheets are Fabriano Tiziano Anthracite and bound in Asahi Grey Crepe bookcloth. Foil stamped birds and title. Secret Belgian binding with Italian film yarn.

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  The Square

  Islam Aly, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Red oak wooden covers, laser cut, fore-edge laser etching, coptic binding, orange linen thread. "Tahrir Square in Cairo became the focal point and the most effective symbol of the protests in January and February 2011. For 18 days Egyptians repeated the slogan: The People Want to Bring down the Regime (al-sha'b yurid isqat al-nizam) until the regime stepped down on the 11th of February 2011. This book focuses on the revolution slogan. Using Arabic Kufic script the words of the slogan are repeated in an ascending sequence. Section 19 contains the English translation for the slogan The People Want to Bring down the Regime. The last section contains the time and date when the regime stepped down along with the sentence Al Saa'b Askat al Nezam with its English translation 'The People have Brought down the Regime'. Cairo's map is laser engraved on the book covers. Three edges of the book are colored then laser engraved to show the streets of Cairo"--23 Sandy Gallery. Signed, dated and numbered by the artist on the last page.

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  Decomposition Book

  Kelli Anderson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 133 pages. A self-destroying notebook ... 2/3 usable lined sheets and 1/2 lines down the drain. -- author's website.00% recycled (30% post-consumer) paper made in French's hydroelectric-powered mill -- author's website. Small diagram card of the text laid in (4 x 8 cm) Three holes punched through the left-side of the text. Cover has black and white marbled pattern of a composition book. Perfect binding and black cloth over head of text block.

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  Notebook

  Laurie Anderson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  6 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations, music, portraits. Artist Book Series ; # 1 Artist Book Series ; # 1. "This book is an edition of 1000"--Title page verso. Artist's book. Text printed from the artist's handwriting ; includes examples of her musical scores and contact prints and photographs of her performances. Film/Song in 24/25 time -- Duets on ice: Genoa/New York City -- Two songs for violin and projector -- Duet for door jamb and violin. Paperback; illustrated front cover. Perfect binding. Gift of Jan Baker.

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  Saturday Afternoons

  Susan Angebranndt, Harold Williams, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  accordion with pop-ups; cover wrap; book cover; page spreads. Edition of 25 copies. Cover title. In slipcase with mounted color illustration. "Photos: Susan Angebranndt, Harold Williams ; Illustration, story & construction: Susan Angebranndt ; Ink jet printed"--Colophon. Accordion fold book with pop-up illustrations. Library has copy 7.

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  Quieto Pelo : Tumaco : área rural y urbana

  Liliana Angulo Cortés, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [Colombia] : Universidad Nacional de Colombia, [2017].. Collection of 4 postcard booklets with 10 postcards each, printed in glossy paper and folded accordion style (16 x 100 cm unfolded). In Spanish.

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  Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife: all the dishes you'll need to make from the day you say "I do" until death (or divorce) do you part.

  Nava Atlas, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  smythe sewn, paperback; cover; page spreads: "What a Turkey Noodle Soup"; pg 46-47 "Whoosh" . signed by the artist

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  Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife: from accommodating breakfasts to just desserts, recipes for deteriorating marriages.

  Nava Atlas, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  spiral bound; cover; page spreads.

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  Maille

  Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  24 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. "As a weaver, recreational student of topology and collector of wire entanglement puzzles, I've been studying chainmaille and the many variations of meshes that can be made with interlocking rings. The book 'Maille' is a collection of images from this research which have been heavily processed and rendered using a variation on halftoning: a mesh of differently sized white rings. The volume is hinged together with metal rings like those used to make the weaves in the photographs."--artist's statement.

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  Marbles for the John J. Harvey

  Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 104 pages. "In 2018 I was commissioned by Public Art Fund and 14-18 Now to dazzle the John J. Harvey, an historic fireboat in the New York Harbor. Built in 1931 and retired in 1994, the Harvey was rescued at a scrap auction by a group of maritime enthusiasts. Since then, the boat has been maintained by volunteers, operating as a small museum and offering free rides to the public. The Harvey became an unexpected hero on 9/11, springing back into service and pumping water for 80 hours. The story is memorialized in a Moira Kalman book. Dazzle Camouflage was a painting strategy invented by the artist Norman Wilkinson during WWI, Usually comprised of sharp, contrasting, stripey designs, dazzle was devised to confuse rather than conceal. For my interpretation of the tradition, I marbled paper to generate high contrast images of fluid behaviours. This book chronicles the project and compiles a selection of the unused designs." -- Artist's statement. Two half-sheet pages laid in, one includes information pertaining to this publication, the other lists other open edition titles by the artist. Red plastic spiral binding. Red plastic cover has a circular cut-out with a marble pattern from the first page showing through.

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  Z Helix

  Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  116 pages : all illustrated. "The helix is chiral and exists in two varieties, S and Z. The book Z Helix developed around the manufacturing conventions of coil bindings (which are only available as Z helices), and the color and structure of the sculpture 'Square Helix (Z)' which was included in an exhibition entitled The New Ambidextrous Universe at the ICA London in 2014. The book contains five Z helices"--Insert. Two color coils interweaved. Spiral bindings in orange and blue. Indigo print on 4mm transparency film. Housed in a corrugated cardboard box (31 x 26 cm) Title, author and imprint info stamped with a custom rubber stamp on container.

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  Meet me in my kitchen

  Alice Austin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 circular map fold book. Title from paper wrapper. Publication information from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on August 26, 2015. Limited edition of 20 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "A love of pie inspired this circular love letter of linoleum prints of pie. A reduction printing process was used to create prints in yellow (lemon), red (cherry), and blue (blueberry) with text--expressing love of another--printed on the yellow pie. The reverse side of each print is relief printed by hand from lace. The three part circular map fold book is joined with a magnet which allows the book to stand"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on August 26, 2015. "[Three] map folds. Reduction printing in yellow, red, and blue. Reverse side relief printed. In paper wrapper with printed title. Housed in archival box with paper title label on spine"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on August 26, 2015. Book consists of linocuts on a "turkish mapfold".

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  Manifestos

  A-yo, Philip Corner, and W.E.B. DuBois

  31 pages. A Great Bear Pamphlet; no. 8. CONTENTS : Word power / Alison Knowles -- Answers to manifesto puzzle -- Rainbow manifesto / Ay-o -- "Western civilization is done with ..." / Philip Corner -- Manifesto of the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs -- Take care of the world / Oyvind Fahlström -- A proposition, a problem, a danger and a hunch / Robert Filliou -- "We hold ..." / John Giorno -- Manifesto / [Robert Watts] -- Lettuce manifesto / Al Hansen -- A Something Else manifesto / Dick Higgins -- "Once, the task of the artist was ..." / Allan Kaprow -- "Cybernated art is very important ..." ; Utopian laser TV station / Nam June Paik -- "And I open my mouth ..." / Diter Rot -- Program / Jerome Rothenberg -- "Instead of bombs ..." / Wolf Vostell -- abeeiillmmmsttwy / [Emmett Williams]. Stapled binding. Gift of Richard Liebler. 2nd copy gift of Estera Milman, RISD Class of 1970. Estera Milman (RISD BFA Painting/Printmaking and Film, 1970) scholar of post-World War II avant-garde art. Founded Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art (ATCA) at the University of Iowa, 1982, and served as its director until 2000. She is the author of many books, articles, interviews, and exhibition catalogs on Fluxus and No!art. In December 2018 she donated a selection of books from her library to the Fleet Library at RISD. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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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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  Brutus Killed Caesar

  John Baldessari, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Spiral Binding, 34 leaves, chiefly illustrations.

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  Four Events and Reactions

  John Baldessari, Stedelijk Museum, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [52] pages : chiefly illus. ; 13 x 18 cm. Cat[aloghi] ; 62. Cover title. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Nov. 21st, 1975-Jan. 4th, 1976.

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  Neighborhood Garden

  Katie Baldwin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "... created by Katie Baldwin in 2021, while she was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan. Long bicycle rides through the city were the inspiration for these images. Between highways, concrete, rivers and canals, small gardens were found. This book is Risograph printed on French Paper at Directangle Press by Josh Dannin in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. Baxter Stults expertly prepared the files for this project in Knoxville, TN. The edition was bound in Huntsville, AL."--colophon. Pagination includes cover. Colophon on page [3] of cover. Black and white images riso printed with green. Single signature, pamphlet stitch. Library has copy no. 21.

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  When Is Now

  Alisa C. Banks, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 cylindrical box . Edition limited to 4 numbered copies signed by the artist. The wooden cylindrical box contains a sculptural representation of tightly curled hair. Text printed on paper is attached to the inside of the lid. The text is reproduced on an included pamphlet. "'When Is Now' questions the appropriate time to expect equal footing and humane action for marginalized populations. The basis of the text was conceived during a time of personal upheaval that coincided with the 2016 US presidential election and speaks to feelings of shock, denial, immobility, anger, helplessness, and sorrow concerning the ensuing political and cultural shift in this country and beyond. It speaks to my connectedness as an 'unheard' to others who are 'unheard' and is a protest against racially motivated acts of terror, unequal citizenship, callous action, and invisibility. What action to take and when to take it is a personal decision and a multi-faceted community has room for many forms of activism. In simple terms, one form is that of patient activism. Improvements progress slowly and peacefully by living as a 'model' citizen by constantly striving for excellence in every aspect of living in order to break down stereotypes."--artist's statement

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  Black is every color

  Alisa Banks, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (8 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; in box 11.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm. Unique book. Artist's statement: Black, the sum of all colors, mysterious, all-encompassing, a shroud, a swarm. Familiar but unknowable, coveted and uncontained. This book work considers the encompassing nature of blackness. Box containing painted cube surrounded by four flaps featuring single signature books. Each stitched cover opens to reveal a poem about the color black. Media: Book cloth, book board, paper, acrylic paint, graphite, glass, embroidery thread, silk, watercolor, graphite. "Created while watching spring bloom and events unfold during COVID-19."--artist's website. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  Beyond the Page

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  spiral binding, die cuts; page spread 4-5; page spread "at dinner table"; page spread "gloves on table"; page spread "woman in bathroom". copy 142 of 200, signed by the artist

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  Five Luminous Towers: A Book to be Read in the Dark

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  pop-up tower; clamshell box, pop-ups, laser cuts, wire-edge binding; cover; page spread La Torre degli Artisani. edition of 50; "Carol Barton Artist Book Process Archive" for this book available in Special Collections

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  Instructions for Assembly: three how-to projects that will improve your life.

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  tab binding with pop-up overlays; cover; page spread "The Style";. edition of 600?

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  Loom

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  book inside clear plastic box; tunnel book variation; accordion side-panel; front, view into tunnel structure;. copy 61 of 600, Anonymous Persian verse

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  The Lookout: An Excerpt from Five Luminous Towers

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  clamshell box cover; pg 1-2; poem "The Lookout"; pg 3-4; pop-up tower; clamshell box with lighted pop-up tower. edition of 400

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  Vision Shifts

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  accordion, pop-up panels with cut-out windows, pocket inside back cover with 6 illustrated cards; pg 3-4; "between thought and its expression ..."; pg 7-8; "from familiar ground ...". copy 51 of 500, signed by the artist

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  Missing from America

  Aileen Bassis, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume. Double-sided accordion folder consisting of lithographs and transfer prints, housed in a paper folder. Book is inspired by a New York Times article about black men missing from society.

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  Bastokalypse

  M.S. Bastian, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly ill.. Cover title. Book has text and illustrations on one side and a 52 meter frieze of apocalyptic imagery on the other side of accordion-fold paper board pages. Includes bibliographical references. Text in German English and French.

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  Grave To Cradle

  Hannah Batsel, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Cover title. Edition of 35, signed and numbered by the artist. Trifold book cover which when opened displays the wingspan of a moth screenprinted on cloth. "This book was printed as part of an In Cahoots residency in Petaluma, CA, in October of 2019. It was assembled in Chicago, IL, in February of 2021"--Colophon. "Inspired by real-life bagworms, insects that construct different cocoons based on the materials available in their environments, and an actual cemetery in Petaluma, CA, 'Grave to Cradle' is a short magical realism story about insects that synthesize not only physical objects found on graves (flowers, ribbons, cacti) but also the memories and emotions of the deceased into dense, crowded cocoons. The lives of a murderer, a young girl, and a married couple are woven into cradles that give new life to the bagworm moths that emerge from them"--Artist's statement, Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed April 28, 2021). Center pages foldout into one large color print. Sewn binding with foldout. Library has copy no. 2.

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  A field guide to weeds: with illustrated taxonomy of the most pernicious and troublesome plants

  Kim Beck, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 96 unnumbered pages. "Third edition of 1500 copies, 2014."--Title page verso. A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. Becks innovative project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivythe very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoidcreep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the readers attention to the overlooked. This third edition features a brown cloth cover and green ribbon marker.--publisher. "Typography and production by Garrick Gott"--Title page verso. Case binding. Offset printing.

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  Parade of the Old New : Panorama ; The Troublemakers : History Painting in the Real World

  Zoe Beloff, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  76 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Held closed by red elastic band Includes bibliographical references "An accordion book that reproduces Parade of the Old New, a panoramic painting on cardboard by Zoe Beloff. Created between 2017 and 2021, the picture is an allegory of the American body politic in dark times inspired by Bertolt Brecht's poem. On the reverse of the accordion you will find Beloff's essay The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World"--new.booklyn.org 40-panel accordion book. SEI

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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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  Attica Book

  Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam, Benny Andrews, Rudolf Baranik, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  47 pages : chiefly illustrations. Gift of Dr. Patrice Marandel.

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  As in Queen: the Abecedarium of a Typophiliac

  Leda Black, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [54] pages : color ill.. "[P]rinted letterpress from foundry type and polymer plates using 27 typefaces ... on Somerset paper with a Vandercook sp-20 and a Heidelberg windmill"--Colophon. Printed on double leaves. Library has copy no. 84 of 100 copies.

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  The Appeal of Pornography

  Karen Bleitz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  drum leaf binding, hard cover, pop-up, movable parts; accordion; cover; page spread, title page; page spreads; colophon. Pop-up book featuring the vast array of pornographic materials available in today's culture and the resulting objectification of women. Designed by Karen Bleitz, hand cut and bound by Amelia Drinkwater. Originally produced in 1996, re-issued in 2007.

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  Alluvium

  Mare Blocker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  hand-sewn couplets, linked at spine; letter-fold wrapper, partially open; back cover; front cover; page spreads. copy 2 of 40

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  Mister Man

  Mare Blocker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  accordion; cover; page spread. unnumbered limited edition

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  Rain/Fall

  Denise Bookwalter, Michael Bookwalter, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (partly color). Limited edition of 50 numbered copies. Co-published: Chicago: Center for Book and Paper Arts. Artist book consisting of 9 rotatable volvelles inserted into cardboard pages. Printed on Legion Bamboo paper. Bound in red book cloth. "The project Rain/fall accentuates the physicality of the book and the possibilities of contemporary mobile technology combining these seemingly disparate forms to create a complementary cross platform reading experience. Rain/fall is driven by geography and weather. The text in both the app and the book is determined by where the reader is and what weather the reader is experiencing at that location. In the app the reading experience is driven by location and weather data culled from a live database, while in the book the experience is driven by the reader who inputs his or her own weather data"--Artist statement. "Through laser-cut rotating wheels (volvelles) Rain/fall proposes a new poetic form determined by weather data, where each page contributes two lines to a poem assembled by the reader in accordance with the local forecast. Designed by Denise Bookwalter and fabricated at Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University, the book is part of a hybrid project: a companion app, engineered by Meg Mitchell at the University of Wisconsin, and available free of charge on Apple's App Store, performs the same function digitally, accessing local weather data through GPS. While the digital affordances of the app are possible only with recently developed mobile devices, the book incorporates a mechanical computing technology devised by Persian astronomers in the 11th century. Together, the two versions dramatically illustrate expanded possibilities for the book form, both physical and digital, and the radical changes in literary practice that publication with new media can now enable." -- Promotional statement. "With the book, readers can choose their current local weather condition on the volvelle at the front of the book then turn the volvelle on each page to the matching icon to read the corresponding poem" --From colophon. Issued in cardboard box. Also issued as app-edition and complemented by app. Library has copy 13.

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  SHV

  Irma Boom, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [2136] pages : illustrations (some color). Book commissioned by Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, chairman of SHV Holdings, and designed by Irma Boom in editorial collaboration with art historian Johann Pijnappel to celebrate the centenary SHV. Edition of 500 copies in English and 300 copies in Chinese. Printed by Rosbeek, Nuth, Netherlands. Three sheets of stamps are mounted inside the front and back covers. Decorated fore-edge papers with a poem in Dutch and a color illustration of a field of tulips. SHV Energy is a family-owned multinational organization that consists of a group of specialised energy companies

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  Raising The Supine Dome

  Amy Borezo, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Double-sided accordion book. Text and illustrations printed on one side of board; white grid on gray background printed on reverse. Numerous cutouts reveal printed grid. Bound in gray paper-covered boards; in cloth-covered slip case, as issued. "Raising the supine dome, by Amy Borezo. Printed in an edition of 20 on Holyoke Fine Paper from 14 point Caslon hand-set metal type and photopolymer plates at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH in the fall of 2010. Titles set in Futura. Binding inspired by Deborah Howe's screen book."--colophon. Double-sided accordion book. Text and illustrations printed on one side of board; white grid on gray background printed on reverse. Numerous cutouts reveal printed grid. Bound in gray paper-covered boards; in cloth-covered slip case, as issued (29 cm) "In 1948 at Black Mountain College, Buckminster Fuller attempted to erect his first geodesic dome, without success. He would return the following year to complete his project... The text in this book comes from a variety of sources including Charles Olson's poem 'The Praises,' Elaine de Kooning's personal account..., Martin Duberman's book Black Mountain College..., and the writings of Buckminster Fuller."--page [13].

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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.

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  Untitled

  Kelie Bowman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, accordion folded, all color illustrations. Signed and dated inside back cover. A unique accordion book with ten panels. Each panel has three or more silkscreened triangular pieces hand stitched together to form a page; each page is stitched to the next. Attached to cardboard covers which have silkscreened abstract illustrations. "A pseudo-accordion fold book with sewn pieces of silkscreened prints which can be folded and warped in endless combinations, making each reading experience unique."--Booklyn Artists Alliance flier.

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  Dark Archives, 1-41

  Andre Bradley, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  3 booklets, 1 postcard, and 1 sheet (2 sided) in paper folder. "Publisher's Description: Dark Archives by artist Andre Bradley is a provocative exploration of one black man's memories of childhood. An autobiography in fragments, Dark Archives interweaves Bradley's writing and photographs with pictures from his family archive. Part story, part lyrical investigation, Dark Archives aims to upset the linguistic and visual constrictions placed on black males. Bradley powerfully combines image and text in this deeply moving meditation on narrative agency, on the family as archive, on being a young black man, and on being Andre Bradley." "Design by Elana Schlenker"--back cover. "Second Printing, 2016"--back cover. "Printed in Syracuse, New York by Eastwood Litho in an edition of 200."--back cover. "Image Text Ithaca is an initiative of Ithaca College"--back cover. "Nicholas Muellner and Catherine Taylor, editors"--back cover.

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  CB&S Swatch Book

  Noah Breuer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 22 unnumbered pages. Title provided by publisher. Edition of 100 numbered copies. Artist's book consisting of a swatch book structure with screw post. Polymer plate/letterpress-printed images are based on rubbings that the artist created from the source material; additional woodcut-printed imagery is used as well. "Published in 2018 by the San Francisco Center for the Book as part of the Small Plates Program. The woodcuts were designed and laser engraved by the artist and printed at both SFCB and the University of Oregon."--Colophon. "For the last two years, I have been producing printed works on paper and fabric which explore the visual legacy of Carl Breuer and Sons (CB&S), my Jewish family's former textile printing business. In 1942 CB&S was lost as a result of a forced sale to Nazi Party members, the Breuer family fled Europe, and those who remained were killed. After traveling to the Czech Republic and accessing a previously unknown cache of CB&S material housed at the Czech Textile Museum in Česka Skalice in 2016, I used the swatch books and printed textiles I found there as a nucleus of primary source material and I embarked on a reclamation project."--Artist's statement provided by publisher. The business of Carl Breuer & Sons was originally established in 1897 in Bohemia. The CB&S patterns used as the basis for the designs in Noah Breuer's book were originally intended for use on household textiles, such as tablecloths and handkerchiefs. After appropriation by the Nazis in 1939, the CB&S factory was used to print thousands of the yellow "Jude" star badges, which became emblematic of Jewish oppression.

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  The infinite between us

  Inge Bruggeman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : color ill., folded maps. "This book was conceived as a residency project for the Atelier Vis-à-Vis in Marseille, France. It was printed on Akatosashi paper in an edition of 20 copies and completed during the spring and summer of 2011 by Inge Bruggeman. The imagery was printed on a Ledeuil etching press and a Vandercook SP15 repro proof press... The text was letterpress printed in Inge's studio in Portland, Oregon on a Vandercook 219AB, where the binding work was also completed."--Colophon. The map imagery for this book was inspired by a collection of books given to me by my father on the 18th century sea explorer Jean-François Galaup de Lapérouse... The book is about our use of language to know or understand something. Being a cultural construct however, language is not truly an objective or complete way of knowing something. This project maps the spaces left between the known and unknown.--Artists' website. Includes errata slip. Sewn binding, letterpress printed cover with title and three die-cuts, in tri-fold paper wrap with letterpress printed title.

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  The Radiant Republic

  Sarah Bryant, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 box, 5 volumes, 9 concrete forms, 1 sheet of glass. "In The Radiant Republic, language from Plato and Le Corbusier has been combined to create a narrative in five parts. Each part is bound separately, and features a portion of an interlocking landscape with no fixed beginning or end. The project is housed in an elaborate enclosure featuring elements of wood, cement, and glass. Letterpress printed and completed in 2019."-Publisher website. Box constructed with finger jointed, pressed-wood with pale green cloth lid. Lid has image of three icosahedron forms. Box contains 5 pamphlet-stitched volumes wrapped together. Each volume consists of inked and uninked text impressions with a folded color print at center. Sheet of glass covers nine concrete geometric forms (3 icosahedrons, 3 cubes, and 3 pyramics).

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  Which one are you?

  Marylee Bytheriver, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A yellow ribbon holds the book together, 26 pages, chiefly illustrations. Edition limited to 100 copies, signed by the artist. Consists of a Jacob's ladder structure in which photographs are attached on both sides. Photographs of the artist's family are scanned and manipulated onto Rives Lightweight and glued to foam core. Printed paper strips hold book sections together. Texts on paper strips use three different type faces: one reflecting the artist's recollections of her childhood; one quoting from The birth order book : why you are the way you are, by Dr. Kevin Leman; and the last quoting from the I ching, or, Book of changes. A yellow ribbon holds the book together.

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  Diary : How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued, Part Three (1967)

  John Cage, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  14 pages. A great bear pamphlet Great bear pamphlet (Unnumbered) Poem. Cover title. "The first section of the 'diaries, ' which are collections of thoughts that develop out of working and being alive, appeared in the little magazine Joglars, issue number three. The second is in the Spring 1967 issue of the Paris Review."--Page [15]. Multi-coloured thoughts and social reflections; unique design by the artist. Type printed in various colors. Stapled binding. 2nd copy gift of Estera Milman, RISD Class of 1970. Estera Milman (RISD BFA Painting/Printmaking and Film, 1970) scholar of post-World War II avant-garde art. Founded Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art (ATCA) at the University of Iowa, 1982, and served as its director until 2000. She is the author of many books, articles, interviews, and exhibition catalogs on Fluxus and No!art. In December 2018 she donated a selection of books from her library to the Fleet Library at RISD.

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  Rolywholyover: A Circus

  John Cage, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 box : ill. (some color). Title from box lid. Issued in connection with a travelling exhibition of the same title, organized by the museum and opening there Sept. 12, 1993. "The box includes reprints of texts that Cage found useful and inspiring, as well as important new essays. Also included are writings and letters by Cage, reproductions of works by Cage and others, musical scores, recipes, advice on healthy eating, and photographs"--Prospectus. Paying attention / Anne d'Harnoncourt -- Nothingtoseeness / Julie Lazar -- John Cage in the social realm / Laura Kuhn -- Uncaged words / Joan Retallack -- Cage and counting / Mark Swed -- Anarchy / John Cage -- An autobiographical statement / John Cage -- Macrobiotic cooking / John Cage -- The agenbite of outwit / Marshall McLuhan -- What should I eat? / Andrew Weil -- Chronological table of John Cage's life / Ellsworth Snyder -- Zen and Dhyana / Daisetz T. Suzuki.

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  Exquisite Pain

  Sophia Calle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  264 pages : ill. (some color) ; 19 cm. "Original French edition c2003 Actes Sud, Alres, France, translated from French by Charles Penwarden"--Colophon. "I left for Japan on October 25, 1984, unsuspecting that this date would mark the beginning of a 92 day countdown to the end of a love affair."--Backcover.

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  Pictorial Webster's: G. & C. Merriam dictionary engravings of the nineteenth century printed alphabetically as a source for creativity in the human brain, with additional dissertation

  John Carrera, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  case-bound in leather, clamshell box; open clamshell box with closed book inside; front cover; page spread 24-25, "letter B"; page spread 270-271, "letter P";. copy 10, signed by the artist

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  The Pursuit of Happiness

  John Carrera, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  cover; spiral bound; interior page; "Fragment", "Extreme Makeover"; page spread; interior page; detail. number 380 in edition of 1,000, Accompanied an exhibition "The Pursuit of Happiness" at The Map Room, Portland, Maine May 1-June 26, 2004

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  Santa Barbara Save US

  Alejandro Cartagena, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  116 unnumbered pages : all illustrations (some color) ;1 booklet (8 unnumbered pages : 3 illustrations (1 portrait). Cover title. Limited edition of 50 copies signed by the photographer and accompanied by 2 photographic color prints. "The last chapter of the trilogy that has followed the cultural turmoil that the US has lived in the last 4 years. The third volume continues to paint an uncertain present and future"--Publisher's website, viewed October 14, 2021. The last chapter of the trilogy that has followed the cultural turmoil that the US has lived in the last 4 years. The third volume continues to paint an uncertain present and future. Alejandro's pictures in this project, since the beginning, have channeled that fear of fire, the engulfing heat, the insatiable flames, devouring everyone and everything, leaving charred scars behind So what now? If Alejandro can see the future? How is this book, the last in the trilogy, different and new? Well, it's confident in its bleak outlook. Booklet signed by the artist. Perfect binding. Hotfoil white velvet softcover.

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  Yellow Wallpaper. Selections

  Crystal Cawley, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [2], 20 pages, [5] pages of plates : color ill. ; 29 cm. 5 colograph relief prints; mounted paste paper frontispiece. Illustrated paste-down end papers (collographs). Issued in an illustrated dust-jacket (frottage and acrylic paint on tracing paper, laminated with acrylic medium). "The text ... first published in New England Magazine, January 1892 ... This book was designed and produced by Crystal Cawley. It was typeset and printed at Wolfe Editions ..."--Colophon. Edition limited to 30 numbered copies. Library has copy no. 22.

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  Connect the Dots

  Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  long stitch with cloth-covered cover boards, housed in a wrap box with plexi front and magnet closure; closed book inside cloth covered box; cloth covered box open with book inside; interior of cloth covered box; book cover without box; interior page; page spread. number 9 in an edition of 18, signed by the artist

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  Input / Output: mapping the creative process

  Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume. Artist's book by Macy Chadwick. Title page spans two pages. Limited edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "'Input/Output' was created as one of the Small Plates series at San Francisco Center for the Book in 2016. The book was designed and written by Macy Chadwick and was letterpress printed at SFCB with Gotham typeface on Cougar Opaque paper using linoleum blocks and polymer plates with the assistance of Paola Hurtado, Cheryl Ball, Lian Ng, Carrie Ann Plank, Laurie Whitehill & Megan Adie... The binding was based on Keith Smith's 'border book' which opens out to create a complete image"--Colophon. Issued in an orange-cloth-over-boards four-flap wrapper lined with illustrated paper. Inner flaps have a slot-and-tab closure, outer flaps have magnetic closure.

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  The Conversation

  Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  accordion; slipcase cover; cover; page spreads; accordion partially unfolded. number 37 of 50 copies, signed by the artist

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  The Topography of Home

  Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [20] pages : color ill.. Edition of 50 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. [Letterpress] ... printed by Macy Chadwick ... with pressure prints and polymer plates on Mohawk Superfine and French's Extra Blue Butcher paper ... Window images hand-stenciled on Silk Tissue." -- Colophon. Pages attached to a concertina with most pages having a circular silk tissue window so that the preceding and following pages show through. Gift Fund. Library has copy no. 35.

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  Aggregate Memory

  Macy Chadwick, Lisa Onstad, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  cloth covered box exterior; accordion, dos a dos, housed in a clamshell box; cloth covered box interior; page spread; "Returning again, past and present converge"; page spread; "Days steeped..."; page spread; inside front cover. number 34 in an edition of 65, a collaborative work signed by both artists

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  A Piece of string

  Jeong-In Cha, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  single book, all illustrations, sewn elements through out, 14 pages. Title from spine. Signed and dated by the artist.

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  Real Life with Partner

  Jeong-In Cha, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [20] pages. Cover title. Library has copy no. 3 of an edition of 8. Signed and dated by the artist.

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  Parallax

  Karen Chance, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 folded strip, 70 pages, chiefly color illustrations. Printed on both sides of a strip folded accordion style. "Printed at Nexus Press in the fall of 1987"--Colophon.

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  Asian American Project

  Irene Chan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 case, 35 cards. An open edition artist book. Contains 35 loose and unnumbered cards, much like business cards. Print media on paper, with press name Ch'An punched out. Housed in a red, white, and blue paper case with slip-in envelope closure.

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  Barbie Paper Doll: A Transformed Wardrobe With Textile Mill History

  Irene Chan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 artist's book : color illustrations. Written, designed, and produced by Irene Chan ... produced in an edition of 10 copies. Place of publication for Elsewhere Artist Collaborative from box. Digital prints of cut paper doll clothes. Found object into sculptural book. Printed and illustrated paper box with paper doll, doll clothes, and printed leaf of references for text and images. "American textile history is printed on sixteen paper doll Barbie's clothes. Original doll from 1980 found at Elsewhere Museum and Residency. History is in the form of text and images from mill worker interviews and portraits, tools, statistics, and mill life folk songs"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers website. "Includes these paper doll outfits: Cotton picker: Green skirt and blouse showing on the skirt image of cotton picker in fields; Mill girls' spirits: Blue prom dress showing ghosts of young mill girls; Spin and spool: Green and white turtle neck sweater with words "spin and spool;" Charred mills: Brown belted coat with industrial town skyline around hem. Mill tools: Long pink sleeveless dress, slits up the sides with tools pattern; Textile mills: Skinny pants with textile mill illustration design; Loom: Evening gown with boa showing woman at loom.; Mill worker: jacket, blouse, and skirt with image of mill worker and history of skirt.; Mills are closed: Long sleeve shirt with white overblouse with words "Mills closed / 1990-1997"-Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers website.

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  Spectacular Vernacular

  Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons

  1 volume, 152 pages . Living in a Material World, Parsons & Charlesworth at the Chicago Cultural Center / B. David Zarley -- Spectacular Vernacular / Parsons & Charlesworth -- Index of works -- Observe, Experiment, Speculate, Parsons & Charlesworth in conversation -- Agile Ciphers for Cultural Truths : a consideration of objects and their meanings / Lee Ann Norman. "Our Spectacular Vernacular artists book summarizes and presents our solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2016. Along with many photos of the exhibition and the process of its creation, the book contains Agile Ciphers for Cultural Truths, a 'hybrid essay' by Chicago-based writer Lee Ann Norman, providing insight into the ideas, theories, and interests that influence our design practice. The book also includes a transcript from our panel discussion moderated by Zoë Ryan, the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, which took place at the Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center in December 2016. The launch of this book coincided with the opening of Spectacular Vernacular at the Brooks Stevens Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design on November 3rd 2018."--parsonscharlesworth.com website. In middle of text is additional booklet, "MeMo" ([24] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm) Memo booklet originally produced in conjunction with an exhibition held at Wanted Design, May 17-20, 2013, New York, New York. "Concept, modelmaking, writing, and illustrations by Jessica Charlesworth"--Me-mo.co website. Rubberband binding.

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  Bon bon mots: a fine assortment of books

  Julia Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 box, 5 objects with color illustrations inside. The box, which is designed to resemble a candy box, contains 3 miniature books (2 of which are accordion folded), 1 folded octagonal object with text, and a small box with text containing 5 copper balls which are to be placed into 5 holes on box's bottom surface. All are designed to resemble pieces of candy and are nested in a cloth which fits over partitioned bottom of box. A leaf with box's contents is mounted on the inside lid. Title from box. Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates in an edition of 100 copies.

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  Cat's Cradle

  Julia Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, forms a star-shaped structure when opened. Limited edition of 50 copies ; each numbered and signed by Julie Chen. Digitally printed on Mohawk Superfine and includes laser cut elements. Carousel structure: 5 spreads, each with 3 layers of overlapping concertina folds with sections cut out to create a 3-dimensional scene. When opened and covers are placed against each other, it forms a star-shaped structure, 11" in diameter. Tie closures. "Cat's Cradle translates thoughts about the nature of existence from idea to form by employing the book structure itself as a visual/physical model of concepts portrayed in the text. The book as object can be displayed in two distinct ways: circularly or linearly. This dual display feature contributes its own conceptual meaning to the book as a whole."--Flying Fish Press. "The idea for Cat's Cradle was generated using the Artist's Book Ideation Cards by Barbara Tetenbaum and Julie Chen. To inaugurate the publication of this card set, Barb and Julie invited a group of book artists to each make a book that was inspired by a drawing of the cards. The resulting books were shown at the Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley In February and March of 2013 as an exhibition entitled 'Ideation by Chance.' The cards drawn for Cat's Cradle included the following: Text: self-generated, Imagery: none, Paper: neutral, Color: least favorite, Technique: digital, Layout: across the fold, Structure: Innovative binding, Adjectives: mysterious, spiritual, encyclopedic, organic, lyrical."--Flying Fish Press.

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  Ode to a grand staircase (for four hands)

  Julia Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 29 pages, pages cut in layers to resemble a staircase. "Ode to a Grand Staircase (For Four Hands) is a visual dialog created by Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum, who found their inspiration in the work of composer Erik Satie. The text is derived from the musical directives and silent librettos which accompanied his scores. Thanks to Anna Sacramento for production assistance and to Claudia Wober for the translation. We dedicate this book to the memory of two men, Peter Chen and David Tetenbaum, whose lives inspired the music in our own"--Colophon. "The story in this book comes from The March of the Grand Staircase, composed by Erik Satie in 1914.."--Box lining paper. Letterpress printed cut card panels attached to concertinas on both sides creating two spines. Pages are cut in layers to resemble a staircase and open from the center in the fashion of french doors. Issued in cloth-covered drop-spine box, with magnetic closure. Limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the artists.

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  Radio Silence

  Julia Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 box, 1 accordion book enclosed. "Designed and printed by Julie Chen.. Papers include Wyndstone Mica and Tuxedo bronze, found aeronautical charts and embossed paper designed by Margaret Ahrens Sahlstrand at Icosa Studio. Produced in an edition of 75 copies"--Box lining paper. In fabric covered box (28 x 10 x 6 cm) with hinged glass lid. Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates.

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  The Veil

  Julia Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 5 pages. In box (33 x 22 cm) Title from box. "'The Veil' was written and designed by Julie Chen in the fall of 2002. It was letterpress printed using a combination of photopolymer plates and collagraphic blocks on Wyndstone Marble papers, and cut using a Universal Systems Lasercutter. The binding was done by Julie Chen and Anna Sacramento at the studios of Flying Fish Press.."--Box lining paper. Produced in an edition of 100 copies, signed & numbered by the artist. "This book can be displayed as a standing sculpture by curving the concertina into a circle, with all the pages facing outward, until the front and back covers touch. Magnets embedded in the covers will hold the book open in this position"--Colophon.

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  Bitter Chocolate

  Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume. "Bitter Chocolate was written and designed by Julie Chen. Illustrations of the cacao forest and cacao pods were created by Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder. All other images were created by Julie Chen. All elements were letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on a variety of papers including Old Masters handmade paper from Papeterie Saint-Armand in Montréal, Zanders Elephant Hide and Hahnemühle Ingres"--Colophon. Commissioned for inclusion in "Just one look," an exhibition of contemporary book arts held in the Special Collections Division of the University of Washington Libraries from March 31-July 29, 2016. Limited edition of 50 copies, signed and numbered. Narrative about a fictional goddess of chocolate, "Cacao Woman," a character loosely adapted from the Popul Vuh, the Mayan Book of Council. It is interspersed with historical and contemporary facts about chocolate production and consumption, as well as vignettes from the author's personal history with chocolate. Book is bound in Jacob's Ladder format and enclosed in a cloth-covered, four-flap case with magnetic closures. Title label on top of case. Title, colophon, and "forward" printed letterpress on three sheets mounted inside case. "The Jacob's ladder structure allows for four distinct presentations of content. The book is first unfolded into accordion format, presenting the reader with visual and written content on each side. Then the page panels can be flipped over within the hinge straps that connect them revealing the second half of the content. The full meaning and impact of the story is only revealed when all four parts of the content are discovered and read"--Artist's website, viewed November 30, 2016.

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  Full Circle

  Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) in case : illustrations. Title from portfolio box. "Written, designed, and produced by Julie Chen ... letter-press printed on various papers using photopolymer plates...produced in an edition of 100 copies."--Colophon, boxtop verso. "Full Circle is a powerful exploration into the cycles of faith and belief from the first moments of obsession through the experience of deepest doubts, and ultimately passing through the place of peace where the mind and heart are (re)united before the endless cycle starts again. A large box-mounted wheel rotates continuously beneath a series of windows to reveal the many stages of the faith cycle with concurrent letterpress images of the human body. One window in the wheel also reveals a tray with compartments containing simple every-day objects that take on varied and potent meanings for each individual reader as they attempt to connect or reconcile the complex spiritual world in their imaginations with the material reality before them. Three drawers open from a slot in the outer tray, cradling pop-up diagrams which act as three checkpoints along the cycle. One of Chen’s most advanced book structures to date, the ingenious wheel is not only a marvel of book craft but also an opportunity for a level of self-exploration leading the reader toward the realization that meaning may be encountered within the process of seeking."--Flying Fish website. Operating instructions mounted inside boxtop. Issued as a rotating wheel with pull-out drawers in a silk-covered box. Library has copy no. 22, signed by the artist. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  Leavings

  Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [24] pages : color illustrations. Illustrated card stock in accordion fold format, with mounted text, illustrated within cutout mats, and artifacts attached to baggage labels that are inserted in pockets of some of the panels. Issued in cloth-covered box (18 x 13 x 5 cm) with diapered lid and tie; colophon appears inside box. Some of the "leavings" are scraps of paper cut away to construct Julie Chen's book, "Life time." Letterpress printed; lasercut elements. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  Life Time

  Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 item : color illustrations. Poem. Caption title. Printed on a series of 8 concentric paper discs attached by paper hinges in accordion fold format, designed to be read through a center hole when the construction is fully extended. Issued in a decorated paper box (80 x 80 x 23 mm.) with hinged glass window lid ; colophon pasted inside bottom of box. Edition limited to 100 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Library has copy no. 34. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  Personal Paradigms: a game of human experience

  Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 game : illustrations ; in container+ 1 ledger book; 1 user's guide; 1 folded game board. Cover title. "This game was designed and produced by Julie Chen ... All elements were letterpress printed except for the pages of the ledger book ... an edition of 100 copies"--Colophon inside bottom of box. "The object of this game is ... to have the player create a meaningful abstract composition on the game board based on the examination of one area of his or her life ... and to have the player participate in an ongoing collaborative documentary book project by recording his or her composition in the ledger book"--Rules of Play. Contains in four front drawers: 1 die, 1 self-marker, 8 life markers, 18 marker shapes, 36 text strips, 2 plastic templates, 3 colored pencils, 1 pencil sharpener ; 15 metal arrows ; In folders on inside of lid: 1 Spinner and Rules of Play user's guide. Issued in box with hinged lid, covered with gold/brown-tinged fabric lined with light golden satin. Library has copy no. 23, signed by the author. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  True to Life

  Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : 12 leaves of color plates. Title from portfolio box. Text "block" has 12 leaves of color plates that are manipulated by the reader. Includes instructions on "How to work this book"--Colophon. "... letterpress printed using a combination of pressure plates, woodblocks, & photopolymer plates. It was assembled and bound at Flying Fish Press with expert assistance from Macy Chadwick. The image that appears on each page is one section of a long, continuous visual timeline that can never be viewed all at once. In an edition of 100 copies.--Colophon. Library has copy no. 36, signed by the artist. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Book Fund. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  View

  Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) in case : illustrations. Title from portfolio box. Written, designed, and produced by Julie Chen ... letter-press printed using a combination of photopolymer plates, wood blocks, and pressure plates...produced in an edition of 100 copies. "Based on a personal experience of loss, View is a bookwork that deals directly with ideas of coming to terms with mortality. The piece includes two books that are housed in a compartmented box. After the books have been read, the box can be tilted forward to reveal a mesmerizing view of a miniature world"--Flying Fish Press website. "Dedicated to JKR, 1960-2006"--Paper insert. Library has copy no. 12. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  How Books Work

  Julie Chen, Clifton Meador, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  16 pages : color illustrations. "Written, designed, and produced by Julie Chen and Clifton Meador ... Fall 2010"--Colophon. Cover title. Unnumbered edition of approximately 300 copies. In paper portfolio with mounted color illustration including title. Offset printed; lasercut elements. Clifton Meador, RISD Alumnus, BFA Photography, 1980. Gift of Julie Chen. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  The Heart of Home, Home of the Heart

  Julie Chen, RISD Students, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. Title from binder cover. Front and back covers of the text have varying titles. A two-sided tunnel book, incorporating collage, color photocopy, rubber stamp, letterpress and found objects. This book was produced as part of a Visiting Designers class offered by the Graphic Design Dept., fall 1999. Julie Chen was the visiting instrutor. Molly Schoenhoff was the teacher's assistant. Participating students: Laila Ahmadinejad, Alex Ching, Kathleen de Carvalho, Maria O'Callahan, Erica Saladino, Samantha Troy, Shani Tow, Teresa Hendrosobono, Yuka Petz, Anna Snyder, Queenie Wong, Liza Andersson, Lisa Winter, Mariana Keyes, Emily Muldoon. Edition of 18? Signed by the instructor and most of the students. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  (In)versions

  Julie Chen, David Turner, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [28] pages : color illustrations. Illustrated card stock in accordion fold format, with text mounted on inside back cover; illustrated within cutout mats. When book is unfolded, 2 separate multidimensional scenes are revealed, one from each end. Issued in hardcover box (23 x 27 cm) attaching at the side. Windows centered on the front & back of box. "(In)versions is a collaborative bookwork which combines drawings by David Turner with monoprint & collage elements by Julie Chen. The pages were printed on a Xerox DocuColor 40 and then cut using a Universal Systems laser cutter. This book was partially produced in a digital book arts lab at the San Jose Tech Museum as part of an exhibition entitled 'Experiments in the Future of Reading'"--Inside back cover. Edition of 30 copies. Library has copy no. 25 signed by each author. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  Keeping Things Whole

  Anne Chequer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  14 pages. Title from cover. Edition of ten numbered copies. "Designed by Anne Chequer, Printed Books, RISD, Fall 1984, Text by Mark Strand."--Colophon. Cover and text pages made with heavy black craft paper. Text printed in black on white strips of paper. Accordion fold. This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class. Library has copy no. 2. Gift of Jan Baker.

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  Quickly to the Glittering Horizon

  Allyson Church, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  18 unnumbered pages : color illustrations . Cover title. "Two stories written and printed by Allyson Church in Providence, Rhode Island, 2018"--page [2] of cover. Edition of 3 numbered copies. Edition numbering sewn into back cover. Oversize, fabric book printed as Church's senior project for the Department of Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design. Incorporates silkscreen and letterpress printing, aquatint, hand sewing and embroidery. Different fabrics thoughout the work, some mounted or sewn onto other found, patterned fabrics. All pages handsewn into a beign, light canvas cover. Story themes include fairytales, surrealism, magical realism, sea life and dreams. Some found fabrics sourced from the the Apparel Department building, some were dyed by the artist. Library has copy no. 2. Artist has sewn a "pillow-case" container for this copy.

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  Getting There, Being There

  Marcia Ciro, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  concertina, flag book, with tabbed paper wrapper; paper wrapper; cover, book closed; pages spreads; interior pages unfolded, back cover. number 6 in an edition of 25, signed by the artist

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  Terminal Home

  Marcia Ciro, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  3 folded sheets : color illustrations. Title from box. In oval shaped cloth wrap box (18 x 13 x 5 cm) with metal clasp. Photographs and text printed with archival ink on Moab paper. Limited edition of 8 copies. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of the artist. RISD Alumna, BFA, GD, 1977. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

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  The Black Banal

  Tony Cokes, Elana Schlenker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  15 leaves, unbound sheets. Issued in burnt orange cloth-covered portfolio with bright red-pink lettering. Title from portfolio. Portfolio held closed with a yellow elastic band.

  "Designed by Tony Cokes and Elana Schlenker. Screeprinted in Ithaca, New York by Kaleb Hunkele. Slipcase produced in Jersey City, New Jersey by Conveyor Editions. Edition of 100. Second Edition"--Colophon, page [3] of portfolio.

  The Black Banal, a limited edition, hand silk-screened portfolio, is a graphic blast of found text sourced and sequenced by Tony Cokes. Cokes channels the intense boredom and extreme anger generated by his encounter with the source material into an act of "minor deconstruction." The fact that race was rendered marginal, and banal, in its original reading context makes the excerpts more resonant, intriguing in their isolation, producing new, broader connections in a different place and time. 15 leaves each in a different color with short texts on the meaning of being black in America and exploring being a black artist in a predominantly white culture.

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  The Riso Book: Portland

  Colpa Press (San Francisco, Calif.), Publication Studio Portland; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

  103 unnumbered leaves . Title from publisher. "Copyright Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak"--Title page. "Colpa, in collaboration with Publication Studio Portland presents 'The Riso Book: Portland', the fourth installment of a traveling publication project and exhibition between Los Angeles, Marfa, San Francisco, New York, and Portland.The series standardizes the conditions of production underlying artist publications and presents the book as exhibition. 'The Riso Book', inspired by the format of Seth Siegelaub and Jack Wendler's 1968 'Xerox Book', is a geographic survey of contemporary artists with similar practices across several cities. In Portland, 5 artists will work over the course of five days at Publication Studio, using the Risograph as a tool. Each artist is given 20 pages within the monochromatic 8.5 x 11 inch book. All 100 pages will be bound into a single publication in an edition of 100, to be presented for sale at Publication Studio on Saturday, July 26th from 6-8pm. Originally created on a Xerox machine and duplicated through a lithographic process, 'The Xerox Book' afforded each artist twenty-five pages, plus a cover / title page, to execute a site specific project for the publication. The artists included were Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris and Lawrence Weiner. The publication itself functioned as the exhibition rather than a documentation of these site specific projects. 'The Riso Book' takes its name from the Risograph, a printer/duplicator manufactured in Japan. The original is scanned through the machine and a master is created, by means of tiny heat spots on a thermal plate burning voids (corresponding to image areas) in a master sheet. This master is then wrapped around a drum and ink is forced through the voids in the master. Because the Risograph uses real ink rather than toner, each image looks hand-made"--Publisher's website (https://www.colpapress.com/pages/the-riso-book, viewed February 22, 2017). Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Publication Studio, Portland, July 20-26, 2014. "First Edition, 100, July 2014" Risograph printing in green. Perfect binding.

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  Visible Spectrum

  Conveyor Magazine, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  9 volumes : color illustrations .

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  Red Radish

  Elle Conyers, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  14 unnumbered pages . Cover title. No edition statement. Author name on last printed page. Accordion fold, printed on one side only, folds out to 5 x 46 cm. Second part of compound word begins the word on the next page. Student work likely completed for one of Jan Baker's Printed Books classes, Rhode Island School of Design. RISD Alumna, BFA, GD, 2010. Gift of Jan Baker.

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  Eight Questions: A recipe for change

  Stephanie Copoulos-Selle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume. "The artist found eight shoe boxes in her parents' laundry room full of recipes--over 8,000. Each book has original recipe cards; therefore, each is a variant, as the recipes will be different. The recipes represent her family life growing up where she felt warm & safe 'inside the kitchen with soup on the stove and bread in the oven.' Today the environment she lives in is 'frayed, full of loose ends, and knots.' Using this backdrop of happiness that the recipes represent for her she presents eight questions for us about the current status of our society--Why can't we protect our children from gun violence? Why can't we stop killing people out of hatred? Why can't we help those less fortunate? Why can't we take care of our environment? Why can't our elected officials be ethical? Why can't a woman choose what happens to her body? Why do we need so many bombs?"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed February 5, 2020. llustrated, letterpress-printed paper-covered boards with sewn concertina spine with title on page 1 of cover. Cloth paste-downs. Covers hold decorative fabric pages with embroidered designs and text, and twelve handwritten recipe cards from the artist's parents' house either in cloth pockets or sewn directly to pages. Recipe cards are modified with letterpress printed text and images, and inkjet printed images. Colophon, in the form of a handwritten letter from the artist to her parents, is folded and inserted in a pocket on page 3 of cover. Concertina binding. Letterpress and inkjet printing.

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  Popular Entertainments

  Philip Corner, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [16] pages : illustrations. A Great Bear Pamphlet (Unnumbered) Cover title. "Popular entertainments, no. 1." Paper wrapper, stapled. Gift of Estera Milman, RISD Class of 1970. Estera Milman (RISD BFA Painting/Printmaking and Film, 1970) scholar of post-World War II avant-garde art. Founded Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art (ATCA) at the University of Iowa, 1982, and served as its director until 2000. She is the author of many books, articles, interviews, and exhibition catalogs on Fluxus and No!art. In December 2018 she donated a selection books from her library to the Fleet Library at RISD. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  Cyber Egos

  Béatrice Coron, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  8 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Title from cover. "This booklet was made from the original papercuts of an artist book created in an edition of three in 2000"--back cover. Folded sheet, instant book. Gift of Jan Baker.

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  Bound Tight

  Taylor Anna Cox, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : 5 illustrations. Title, book artist's name, place of publication, and number of copies in edition from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers (distributor) website. Edition limited to 32 numbered copies. Text and decorations printed with metalic copper ink. "Letterpress printed on Suede Tex paper with photopolymer plates. Images of historic X-rays taken by Dr. Ludovic O'Followell in 1908 laser printed on Via Vellum papers."--Colophon. "In 1892 Benjamin Orange Flowers [that is, Flower] wrote the critical essay 'Fashion Slaves' chronicling the damaging effects corsets had on the female body. In 1908, the scientist Dr. Ludovic O'Followell took x-rays of women's bodies while they wore corsets to visually highlight those negative effects. 127 years after Flower's essay was published, our bodies may no longer be subject to the physical constraints of corsets, but they are still being policed and subjugated by the constraints of others to dangerous effects."--Artist's statement from dealer website. Bound in accordion fold format, each black double-sided decorated panel comprising an oval cutout with an inserted image printed on vellum paper; stitched hinges.

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  Accounts

  Maureen Cummins, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 book, 39 pages. "..printed by Maureen Cummins in the summer of 1999 at Oregon College of Art and Craft. The found ledger pages are financial accounts kept by the cotton-trading company of C.A. Burgess, and span the years 1862 to 1868. The text is excerpted from the WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives.."--Colophon. The book was printed in an edition of ten copies, bound into boards covered with indigo papers handmade by Dieu Donne. The type is Gill Sans Bold, handcast by Michael Bixler. You hold copy number 3"--Colophon.

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  A Second History

  Zhang Dali, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 136 pages. "In his book A Second History, Beijing-based artist, Zhang Dali, examines the widespread use of photographic manipulation carried out by the Chinese government during the regime of Mao Tse-tung (1949-76). Using a compare and contrast format this artist book presents a chronological sequence of original, unmodified images together with their doctored doppelgängers which were manipulated in party-run, photo labs in the 50s, 60s and 70s for the Chinese propaganda market." -- From www.bywaterbros.com.

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  Artifacts

  Laura Davidson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  wooden box with compartments. Leather bound book, fabricated "archaeological" artifacts; case bound; box exterior; box interior; interior and accompanying notebook; . Leather bound "archaeologist's field notebook" includes sketches of an imaginary dig and archaeological specimens, housed in a wooden box.

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  The Body Temple

  Laura Davidson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  sculptural, hinged panels unfold to create a 3 dimensional architectural "temple"; exquisite corpse; box exterior; first opening; side views; angled viewss. Classical and Renaissance architects used parts of the human body as metaphors and inspiration for designing buildings.