Artists' Books
This professional artist's books collection is housed in the Fleet Library Special Collections department. Special Collections includes nearly 18,000 important and rare printed books and periodicals that date from as early as the 16th century to present. Historical as well as contemporary materials cover the fine arts, architecture, photography, decorative arts, and design and provide supplemental and inspirational resources for students, faculty, and outside researchers.
The physical Artists’ Books Collection includes nearly 2,000 multiples, hand-made book objects, limited edition books, and zines dating from the mid-1960’s to present. The collection also includes numerous related book arts references and artists’ ephemera files. Featured collections include bookmaking process archives of internationally known book artists Carol Barton, Ruth Laxson and Angela Lorenz. This digital collection presents an abridged preview of each book. Visit 2nd Floor, Rm. 201 of the Fleet Library or contact risdspecial@risd.edu to view the collection in its entirety.
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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.
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Tunnel Vision: the big dig view from my studio window on the corner of "A" and Wormwood Streets in Boston, MA
Laura Davidson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
tunnel book, concertina fold spines; hand sewn; exterior, front view; japanese folding screen. Tunnel book showing the view of the Boston "Big Dig" construction from the artist's studio.
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Art Rite, Vol. 2
Edit DeAk, Walter Robinson, Joshua Cohn, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Vol.2 : illustrations. Cover art: William Wegman. 16 pgs.
Vol. 8: Each cover to this issue has unique hand coloring by Pat Steir. – Printed Matter, Inc. Some issues also have a distinctive title. Editor: Edit deAk ; Photo editor: Yuri. Co-founded and edited by Walter Robinson. No. 2 cover: William Wegman ; No. 7 cover: Vito Acconci ; No. 8 cover: Pat Steir ; No. 10 cover: Joseph Beuys ; Nos. 11-12 cover: Ed Ruscha ; No. 14 cover: Carl Andre. Library has: nos. 2, 7-12 & 14 (special issue on Artists' books) No. 9 Gift of Janice Woo, California College of the Arts. No. 2, 7, 8, 10 gift of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Library.
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Floh
Tacita Dean, Martyn Ridgewell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
176 pages : all ill. (some color, folded). Title from cover. Contains photographs found by the artist in flea markets across Europe and North America. Library has copy no 2391 of an edition of 4000, signed by the artist.
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Stories From Women Who Served
Pam DeLuco, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[44] pages : color illustrations. Limited edition of 251 copies. Text pages: handset metal type printed letterpress on 100% PCW paper. Illustrations: screen printed and hand detailed on paper made from military uniforms. Covers: letterpress and silkscreen on paper made from military uniforms. Binding: solid brass Chicago screws. "Paper Dolls: stories from women who served, is a fully functioning paper doll book. Each letterpress printed story is followed by a screen printed illustration onto paper made from the uniform referenced in the story. The stories span more than 40 years of service and include all branches of the military. Together, they represent a collective experience of women in the armed forces." -- Shotwell Paper Mill. Library has copy no. 4.
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Dual/Duel
François Deschamps, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, portraits. Cover title. Portraits of Mali portrait studio photographers, with a portrait of Deschamps by the Mali photographer on the facing page. Perfect bound. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Pattern Unseen
Insiya Dhatt, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
20 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. Title from cover. Edition of 5 copies. Laser cutting, engraving. Woven strip binding. The woven strip binding was developed by Claire Van Vliet. Book in matching paper folder. Enclosed in folded Japanese Kozuke paper, burgundy with printed silver square pattern. "The pandemic brought out some of our best and a lot of our most flawed patterns. Patterns in in life may be best described as those behaviors or ways of acting or responding to a certain object or situation. These patterns are repeatable, we are born with some, and others we develop due to our environment and life experience. As life continues, they change, sometimes surprising us with its beauty and sometimes challenging us to see the beauty in their randomness. My journey from a fairly sheltered Muslim girl, who wasn't safe in her own home, to finding love and acceptance with someone only at the expense of family, the yearning to have a family, and trying to find that elusive home. Throughout my life, it's been certain a family, and trying to find that elusive home. Throughout my life, it's been other patterns that despite the best of my ability, have caused pain. Just as one turns the pages in a book, my life has been about finding space for opposing ideas to co-exist. On the top and bottom right of every page there are some combinations of symbols. I have left it up to the viewer to define what each of these symbols means to them in their lives - is it gender, family, religion or are honesty, integrity, and faithfulness, or are they just numbers on a page."--colophon. Library has copy no. 5.
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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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Daily News Book
Eric Doeringer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. "inspired by "Daily Mirror Book" by Dieter Roth, Edition of 220, Copycat Publications. Consists of sheets of newsprint cut from the Daily News, a newspaper, side-glued into a miniatrure book 5/8" thick. Perfect binding.
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The Xeroxed Book
Eric Doeringer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 185 pages. "The Xeroxed Book is based on Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner - an artists book published by Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler in 1969 that is more commonly known as The Xerox Book. The Xerox Book was conceived as an exhibition in book form: Siegelaub invited the seven titular artists to submit 25-page projects designed to be reproduced by the then-new technology of the photocopy. However, photocopying proved too expensive at the time, and the book was printed on a traditional offset press. The Xeroxed Book is a photocopied edition of the Xerox Book. Being photocopied, The Xeroxed Book is perhaps closer to Siegelaub's intent than the original book. However, as a second-generation copy, The Xeroxed Book displays the limitations of photocopying as a reproductive technology. Dust, page edges, distortions, and other familiar Xerox artifacts appear on every page, becoming as much a part of the reading experience as the original artists' projects."
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Kin
Mark Dorf, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 16 pages. "kin is an artist book that explores the human perspective, what it would mean to be able to move outside of this perspective, and the paradoxes that are contained in this proposed point of view and gesture. The title opens with the final paragraph from Darwin's On the Origin of Species along with a reworking of the same text by the artist that takes on a less humanist angle: an angle that that embraces co-emergence and making kin with our surroundings (in the words of Donna Haraway) rather than the "war of nature" and the hierarchical view of our world that is so easily adopted. However, through authoring this "update," the text falls short, as it is ultimately crafted looking through the human lens, in effect revealing the impossibility of this proposed angle. In the end the book and images look to explore the melancholy failure of these inquiries while still addressing the importance and value of these ideas for proposing alternative forms of thinking within the social, ecological, and political spheres."--Silentface.org (viewed October 23, 2018)
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Specimens
Lauren Faulkenberry, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 drop spine box, four interior parts. Numbered edition of 50. Each of the four parts unfold to 15 x 30.5 cm. Each printed on one side with color illustrations and printed text. Housed in a cloth-covered drop-spine box (16.5 x 9 cm.) with two compartments, one section holds the folded texts, the other houses an origami butterfly which is pinned to the box.
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A packet of letters
Walter Sidney Feldman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 19 pages. One of 45 numbered copies. "The type of A Packet of Letters is 18 pt. Bodoni and was set by Mollohan Typesetting of West Warwick, Rhode Island. It was printed on Nideggen paper on a hand fed Vandercook Press. The binding is by Stuart Einhorn of Providence, R.I.A Packet of Letters was published in an edition of 45 ..."--Colophon. Title and text in red and black on title page. Bound at the head of the text with white-coated metal spiral binding. Text is attached to a cloth cover binder with an off-center opening in front. A mounted paper label with title and author name is split to allow the cover opening. Library has copy no. 31 Keywords: woodcuts, literacy, World War II, letters from a son serving in the military during WWII to his mother.
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Two Odes
Walter Sidney Feldman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
26 unnumbered pages : illustrations. In an edition of 20 copies. Poems and woodcuts printed on tan and light blue papers. Front free fly-leaf cut out to reveal name "Keats." "Published by the Ziggurat Press in the spring of 1989, as part of a special poetry series."--Colophon. "The type was set by the Mollohan Typesetting Service of West Warwick, Rhode Island and was printed on a Vandercook Universal proofing press. The original woodcuts were cut and printed by Walter Feldman who also is responsible for printing the text. Several varities of paper were used, all of which are acid free."--Colophon. Issued in light gray paper wrappers. Pamphlet stitch. Library has copy no. 13, inscribed to Jan from Walter. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Water Safety
Ann Fessler, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[28] pages : color illus.. True stories series ; bk. 4 True stories ; bk. 4. 2nd copies is a gift of the artist. RISD Faculty.
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A Filliou Sampler
Robert Filliou,; Special Collections; and Fleet Library
15 pages. A Great Bear Pamphlet (Unnumbered) Cover title. CONTENTS: A play called-- -- Yes -- Papa il est Papa -- Papa, that's Papa! -- Five ways to prepare for a space trip -- 3 no-plays -- Almost complete biography. 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 of about 60 books from her personal 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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A Cloud Index
Spencer Finch, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
60 folded sheets : illustrations. "The sixty pastel drawings that comprise this book were originally created for a public art project at the new Elizabeth Line station at Paddington in London. The entire work, titled "A Cloud Index," presents 27 different types of clouds within a single composition. The drawings were scanned and then printed onto 180 clear glass panels (each 2 meters x 6 meters) and installed in the canopy of the station. The pages of this book can be assembled and attached to a wall to re-create the entire artwork, at a reduced scale. The number printed on the back of each leaf corresponds to its location within the entire composition, which is a horizontal grid of 3 up x 20 across. Begin in the top left corner with the first drawing, followed by the second and third drawings placed below. The fourth drawing begins the second column at the top and so on until you get to the sixtieth drawing which completes the grid at the bottom right of the composition."--Inside front cover. "'A Cloud Index' by Spencer Finch is a cloudscape that has been printed onto the glazed roof of the new Elizabeth line station, making it one of the largest permanent artworks ever created in the capital, funded by Heathrow and the City of London Corporation. Finch has hand-drawn 60 original pastels that combine to create a unique collage of clouds, that when printed onto the transparent canopy will appear to change according to the light, weather and the time of day. Given its unprecedented length, visitors will see the artwork in a new way depending on what way they enter, leave or move through the station. The canopy, which appears to float above the platforms 25 metres below ground, is a steel grid that holds 220 bespoke glass panels, each one weighing over a tonne. The hand drawn scene will be 'painted' onto 180 of the panels using ceramic dot matrix printing that not only creates the image, but also reduces solar glare into the station."--Futurecity.co.uk Printing, die Keure, Bruges. Produced in collaboration with Lisson Gallery, London. Folded loose sheets held together with large rubber band. RISD Alumnus, MFA , Sculpture, 1989. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.
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Wonder Wander
Minna Floss, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 144 pages. Cover title. The winner of the Napa Flipbook Competition 2016 by Swedish animator Minna Floss. Edition of 500 copies. Edition number from Printed Matter website. Offset printing. Perfect binding.
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A Murder of Crows
Brad Freeman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet stitch binding with dust jacket; front cover; interior page; page spreads. edition size unknown
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Joe
Brad Freeman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
staple bound, paper cover with cloth spine; front cover; page spreads; pg 39. edition size unknown, gift of the artist
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Mzlk: The Tours
Brad Freeman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
smythe sewn with paper covered boards and cloth spine; front cover; table of contents, title page; page spread. number 85 in an edition of 100, signed by the artist, gift of the artist
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The Grass is Greener
Brad Freeman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
sewn signatures with paper cover; front cover; page spreads. edition size unknown
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Dai Food
Colette Fu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, pop up book. A single opening pop-up book showing a woman surrounded by Dai dishes. Made from Fu's photographs.Title from artist's website. From the We are Tiger Dragon People series. "In Xishuangbanna, the Dai people refer to their land as 'bazi' meaning tranquil and beautiful. Their homes are in a lush subtropical area near river basins with exceptionally fertile soil. One of the least-known but most flavorful culinary treasures in China, their food is similar to Thai food in that it combines sour, spicy, salty and sweet flavors but with its own distinctive style." --www.colettefu.com. Ink: Epson Ultrachrome Ink. Paper: Epson Enhanced Matte mounted onto Cougar 60lb smooth cover. Glue: PVA and 3M 568 Positionable Adhesive. Cover: Black Iris cloth. Color illustration mounted on cover
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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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Water Jokes
Adriana Gallo, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
122 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations "First Edition of 200, First Printing"--colophon. "'Water Jokes' is a collaboration with lucky risograph for the 2021 Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair. It contains a collection of photographs and found images with an accompanying text by the artist on Giochi d'acqua or 'water games' or water jokes', the term originally referring to the (often hidden) water automata of Italian Mannerist gardens."--artist's webpage. "Risograph printed on Sky Parchtone and Bright White Via Vellum. The book utilizes 5 distinct blue inks in various combinations."--artist's webpage. Plastic spiral binding. Velvet cover.
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Office Workers Notebook
Danielo Garcia, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
84 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). Edition of 25 numbered copies. "In the design of a traditional steno pad this book surveys found photographs from ... the New York Public Library. Artist, Danielo Garcia, sourced and photographed hundreds of advertisements, stock-photographs, and archive copies in the production of this faux-notebook, limited edition, publication."--Publisher website. Five color Risograph printing. Spiral bound, at head of text. Library has copy no. 17, signed by the author.
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Avalanche Safety Book
Casey Gardner, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations Title from cover; imprint from colophon. "Written, drawn, printed and bound by the artist"--Colophon. Limited edition of 50 copies. Letterpress printed accordion-bound folios with pamphlet-stitched interior booklets. Printed on a Vandercook 4 with photo-polymer plates and carved linoleum. Two digitally printed, hand-bound fascicles. Covers are cloth-cornered davey board. Typefaces: Cheltenham, Kabel, Gill Sans, Futura, and Bodoni. Paper: Moulin du Gué, Zerkall Book, and Curious Metallic. "This book, through a story of two climbers, explores human vulnerability and vision in navigating physical and existential risks. The story reflects our era of environmental peril and the blind path of progress toward our own potential destruction. Nature's perpetual change, unexposed tendencies and infinite interconnections are touchstones of human desire. It is a story of joy and despair woven in wilderness. Narrative layers investigate the inescapable reliance of humans on nature's infinite complexities. Graphics portray snowflake crystallography, history, geology, and avalanche dynamics." -- From artist's statement on Abecedarian Gallery website, viewed Oct .14, 2021 https://abecedariangallery.com/store/product/casey-gardner-avalanche-safety-book-i/ Cover printed in light blue, blue, and red. Red fabric corners on front and back cover. Library has copy no. 20, signed by the artist.
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The Gravity Series: 3 Canticles of Attraction
Casey Gardner, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
3 volumes : color illustrations, maps Cover title. "Words, images, printing and binding by Casey Gardner"--Colophons. Limited edition of 39 copies, signed by the artist. Three books in an artist-made, cloth-covered portfolio with full-size title label on the front. The inside of the portfolio has letterpress-printed illustrated lining paper with astronomical images. Each book is a single signature sewn into cloth-covered boards in different colors with a letterpress-printed label on the front cover. The three books are held magnetically in place on either side of the portfolio. 1. How to fall -- 2. All there is -- 3. A star close enough. "Each book addresses the force of gravity in terms moving in space in relation to others and investigates how we navigate the universal and very personal force of gravity. Such a force is powerfully, inexorably experienced, yet unseen...like love. The interior of the case is printed to reveal the scientific aspects and equations of gravity, along with the nature of gravity in our universe." -- Artist's website, viewed Nov. 21, 2017. Process: Letterpress printed with linoleum blocks, pressure printing, monotypes, and photo-polymer plates. Hand sewn binding. Digitally printed volvelle. Materials: Rives light & Rives heavyweight, Canson vellum, Iris book cloth, linen thread, metal eyelet, magnets. Binding: Pamphlet stitch signatures, cased binding, cloth-covered board. Library has copy 33, signed by the artist.
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My Evil Twin Sister # 2: Hometown Interstate-5
Amber Gayle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
saddle stitch with uncut pages; leperello; cover; interior page, page spreads; back cover. One of a series of Zines produced by twin sisters. Writing by Amber Gayle, illustrations by Stacy Wakefield, RISD Alumna.
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Sehnsüchtig
Amber Gayle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
stab bound album, sewn cloth hinges; perfect bound; cover; page spreads; interior pages, back cover. In fhe form of a handmade photo album, this book recalls memories of a lake and longing for love. Written by Amber Gayle, produced by twin sister Stacy Erin Forte (formerly Wakefield), RISD Alumna.
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The Twin Survey: A Study
Amber Gayle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet stitch; stab bound; cover; page spreads, interior page. A study on the psychology of twins and their relationships to each other and other people.
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Transient Songs
Amber Gayle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
case bound in soft cover; saddle stitch; cover; page spreads, interior pages. Poems written about places and people from her travels. Written by Amber Gayle, illustrated and produced by twin sister Stacy Wakefield, RISD Alumna.
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Beach Boxes
Judy Gelles, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Pamphlet stitch variation, machine sewn, with hard cover; cover; title page; interior spread; interior pages; interior spread. Black and white photographs of beach houses with each building highlighted in color. No text. RISD Alumna.
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Florida Family Portrait
Judy Gelles, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Sewn signatures with soft cover; cover; interior spread; interior page details. Black and white photographs of family taken with grandparents in Florida, 1982-2002, with notes highlighting each year.
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When We Were Ten: a photo/ text story of a mother and her son
Judy Gelles, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
saddle stitch with soft cover; cover; interior pages. Photographs of mother and son at different ages of their childhood, with memories of each.
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Itself
Keith Godard, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
46 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). "Die cut pages describe a tale of a particular shape searching to find its identity in a world of other shapes"--Printed Matter, Inc. Text printed in blue, except one page is white on black paper. Softcover perfect bound. Inscribed to Jan and signed by the artist, 1999. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Whipstock
A.B. Gorham, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
36 pages : color illustrations Cover title. Limited edition of 40 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. " ... written, designed & letterpress printed by AB Gorham at Small Craft Advisory Press, Tallahassee, FL, for the MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Typeset in Scala & printed on a Vandercook 15-21 with photopolymer plates & linoleum block on handmade cotton/abaca paper"--Colophon. "Laid in a Japanese two-flap hard cover with title (once incised, once printed) on two flaps ... Laid out in a shifting grid, Gorham's poetic text and the book's simple but elaborate structure reinforce the straightforward complexity of a time and place"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on February 20, 2015. "An attempt to understand the lore spun throughout lifetimes spent in the oil patches, courthouses and other haunts of the oil and gas industry, 'Whipstock' manages the iconoclast of the landman, the grid of Township and Range used to identify tracts of land, as well as the more organic and inorganic forms that comprise the actual physical landscape. Paging through the book, the act of unfolding the folios creates a series of shifting views, a slow exposure of this complicated concept"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on October 8, 2014. Outer-most flap of hard cover has small circular incisions and printed gold dots in addition to title; a numbered grid is attached to the inside. Hard cover has magnetic closure. Paper signatures are attached at two spines and sewn into a two-flap illustrated paper wrapper. Numbered pages printed with illustrations and poetry fold and intersect over one another to create a shifting, multi-directional reading experience. Library has copy number 11.
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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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Pur-suit
Naima Green, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
54 cards : color portraits. Edition of 2,500. Edition printing number statement from the artist's website. "Pur·suit is a deck of 54 playing cards features queer women, trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people."--colophon card. "Pur-suit is in the interest of queer and trans people, of people of color, and of groups that continue to be marginalized. Made over 9 days between October 2018 and January 2019, these photographs help complete an image of the world that we live in."--colophon card. In playing card box with title, photographer's name, "First Edition ; Made in ROC, Printed by Expert Playing Card Co., New York, NY 10001"
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Paper Works: a play on the possibilities of a piece of paper
Jennifer Grimyser, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
portfolio with loose plates; cover; title page inside portfolio; title page; interior pages. A playful look at things you can do with a piece of paper.
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Tattoo
Martha Hall, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 vol. (unpaged) : color ill. . Cover title. Poem. Edition limited to 20 numbered copies, signed and dated by the artist; imprint date from signed statement. Composed of 8 gatherings, bound accordion-fold style, each gathering with its own decorative paper wrapper. Library has copy no. 16.
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Hunkering : the last gaebberjabb number eight and IX/XVIths or aleatory annexations or odd bondings or fortuitous encounters with incompatible realities or love, anguish, wonder ... / largely by Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady ; augmented by Henrik Drescher, Patrick Flynn, David McLimans, Peter Sis, and William Stafford.
Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[160] pages : illustrations (some color), portraits. Hamady, Walter. Interminable gabberjabb ; 8. The eighth book in Hamady's "series" known as Interminable gabberjabbs. Edition of 108 copies. Mounted, signed collage on page [24]. Includes handprinting, marbled endpapers, collage, rubber stamping, maps, envelopes, postage stamps, special papers and mounted elements. "Here is the fade-out volume of an unforseen series begun in 1976. It was printed on our single-owner, all-manual, Vandercook SP-15 in more than 285 press-runs utilizing a numerosity of colors, typefaces and papers--hand, mould and machine made. In addition to the usual lay-ons of languid letterpressing, there is an affluence of unorthodox applications. This volume has been collaged, perforated, notched, rubberstamped, drilled, ticket-punched, numbered, signed, grommeted, scribed, ear-tattooed, ponce-wheeled, time-clocked, dog-eared, embossed, shorthanded, corner-rounded, elliptically trimmed and three genuine stubs. In addition, there are 79 illustrations. Fully footnoted, this first and only edition has been kept to a tightly snaffled 108 uniquely variegated copies. Handsewn/boud in Chicago by Scott Kellar in Italian burnt Umbrian cloth over boards with a rondelle/cameo (of the printer) over the spine in a dark Delft blue."--Publisher's prospectus. Includes an original Perishable Press invoice, dated 1 July 2006. Typed in black with two characters in red to Elspeth Pope, Shelton WA 98584. Library has copy no. 35.
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Travelling, or, NeoPostModrinPreMortemism : or, Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo (II), or, Interminable gabberjab number seven ...
Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
154 pages : ilustrations (some color). Hamady, Walter. Interminable gabberjabb ; 7. Remainder of title consists of 15 more alternative titles: "... A typographical clarification of the interchangea(æ)bility of books, boats and texts, or, A study : parthenomic g-section as ideal gyros, or, Limipsd quantippsi , or, An interjacent discourse with visible language, or, A continuation of artists as dogs and other zootomical zooids 6, or, Integrated translations from Greek and German, or, The aquifer as conduit of human consciousness, or, Similar (and familiar) properties of real yogurt, typography and the art of the book, or, The war of the footnotists and the endnotists, or, A study : the national styles of military camouflage, or, The book as an autodidactic pedagogically aleatory tutorial, or, The antepenultimate gabberjab, or, Community collaborations, see 367, or, Any number of other things not known at this time on the ninety-fifth day of this year with the text block only approximately 19/32 to 21/32 completed, or maybe, Travelling with an exclusive photo essay by Ruth Evans Brinker". Title page heavily footnoted. "... printing began 7 June 1991 and finished friday 13 September 1996 employing an unthinkable number of press-runs, typefaces and sizes, ink colors, hand/mould/machine-made papers, and odd applications. Edition is 125 copies, each numbered at least fifteen times, signed five and notarized"--Colophon. "154 page surfaces, all printed, collaged, rubber stamped, drilled, notched, pigment patterned, (ticket) punched, numbered, signed, grommeted, scribed, ear tattooed, drawn, camouflaged or timeclocked. Hand-hard-bound by the printer/publisher, a varigated cloth spine, some printed with an anatomical spine diagram; various old maps over boards, some obviously worn by time and use, no two alike. This book is quintessentially (The) Perishable Press (Limited) ... Each copy is numbered at least nineteen times and signed ten"--Prospectus. The 122nd book from the press. Notes continued from earlier volumes in series; "Bibliography & list of references, alphabetically by title" given as note numbers from entire series. Bound in a variety of styles: 30 copies with green cloth spine and map over boards; 5 copies with French anatomical drawing of spine printed in red on black cloth spine, and Maziarczyk paste-paper over boards and as endpapers; 5 copies with grey unprinted spine and 1956 overhead view of midtown Manhattan over boards. Library has copy no. 79.
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Interminable Gabberjabbs
WalterSamuelHaatoum Hamady, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[24] pages (2 pages on folded leaf) Hamady, Walter. Interminable gabberjabb ; 1. "The first in a series aptly entitled 'The interminable gabberjabbs'"--Page [12]. "Exactly 120 copies all numbered & initialled"--Colophon. The copy numbering was done using a cow-tattoo machine having only one of each numeral 0 through 9 and one of each letter A through Z; therefore improvization was required to number 120 copies "and the full accounting will go to the Perishable Press Limited archive at SUNY at Stony Brook"--Page [9]. Different sized handmade papers, red, black, brown and blue inks, sewn binding. Endpaper is part of a US Geological map. Cover wrapper is blue Fabriano paper. Library has copy no. 25.
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The Interminable Gabberjab Volume One & Number Four
WalterSamuelHaatoum Hamady, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[19] pages : illustrations, portraits Edition of 60 copies. Illustrated with two photographs by Gregory Conniff, the first a seated, pregnant Mary Hamady and the second of Walter Hamady, seated looking at his cat. Printed on various sized and color papers, in red, black, blue and other color inks. Hand-sewn in tan paper wrappers. Inscribed: For James F. Hollygabbers, with unnecessary special attentions from his pen, [draw heart shape], Walter (the) H. This copy is not numbered.
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Bluestem
Karen Hanmer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Flag book variation with 2 concertina spines attached back to back to 2 end pieces. Sculptural book. Colophon; extended view; view from above, extended; flattened view. . A quote from Willa Cather's book My Àntonia, about the movement of the tall prairie grass, is illustrated through the movement of the book pages.
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Reunion
Karen Hanmer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
hand sewn, foldout flaps, leather spine and upholstery fabric cover boards; cover; interior spreads and pages. A tender tribute to the lasting relationship of the artist's parents. Edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Images of the author's parents, William and Frances Salic Cecil, are printed on rectos with folding overlay showing William Cecil in isolation; text on facing pages. "Vintage photographs [reproduced as pigment inkjet prints] and brief text document a couple's many separations and ultimate reunion. I began Reunion shortly after the death of my father. My mother predeceased him by 34 years. He never remarried. I am intrigued with the idea that they are now reunited, at least figuratively, and perhaps in a more tangible form"--Artist's website, viewed 9/7/2006. Awarded the Purchase Prize for "Maternal Legends," a national juried exhibition of contemporary artists' books held at 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Or., Dec. 2008. Library has copy no. 2. Gift in memory of Edythe Woolf Polsby-Salzberger.
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The Model Architect: the panic of '09
Karen Hanmer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
drum leaf binding variation in hard cover, with leather spine; cover; interior spreads and pages. Samuel Sloan's 1852 publication of model designs for houses is updated with this reflection on the current US housing crisis.
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Burn Down the Zendo
Michael Hannon, Carolee Campbell, David Brock, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
stab binding in the style of a Japanese "chomen" or account book, with nail for hanging book, housed in a lucite slipcase; prospectus exterior; front cover; interior pages. number 96 in an edition of 110, signed by the author. Designed and printed by Carolee Campbell. Kanji on cover by David Brock. "San Zendo" means Zen meditation hall or periodic question and answer session between student and teacher (from prospectus)
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Chinese Windows
Clara Hee Ju Nam, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
16 unnumbered pages : all black and white illustrations. Cover title, publication information from back cover. Student work completed for Jan Baker's Form and Communication RISD course. No date, or edition statement. Accordion fold. Black & white printing. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Conjunction, O Aranos + Astropoet
George Herms, Paul Beatty, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 oval shaped volume, 24 pages.
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Common Threads, Volume LXXX
Candace Hicks, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 8 pages. Unique book, hand sewn artist's book, embroidery by Candace Hicks. "Candace Hicks 2017"--sewn into foot of page [8]. Hand-embroidered canvas soft sculpture book, with a pattern of ocean waves? embroidered in blue thread on the front and back covers. Black fabric spine. Text sewn in black thread; page lines in light blue; margin lines in red. The look of the spine and interior pages mimic a dime store composition book. "Common Threads, a series of hand-embroidered unique canvas books which copy the form and design of dime-store 'composition' books. The books themselves, self-consciously hand-made objects, are a record of coincidental occurrences generally gleaned from reading or mundane events. The use of embroidery thread allows for the production of the text and image with the same mark and material, to make the text, image and substance of the book inseparable. Artist's statement: Storytelling is key to Candace Hicks' artistic practice. There is an implied narrative in everything, even, as Hicks addresses with her work, in the seemingly pointless mental wheel spinning that is a part of daily life. Her work acknowledges the unavoidability of simulation and the impossibility of originality. Her choice of the book as a principle medium is due to the phenomenon of the book as authoritative. Books provide an arena in which fiction can be accepted as fact and observations can take on a mythic narrative quality. Her interest in books also stems from their inherent unity of text and image, which lends books continued relevance as a transmedia hybrid."--Description from Booklyn Artists Alliance website, http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/668#, viewed 07/12/2017.
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Prism
Helen Hiebert, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 54 pages . Watermark and hand-stitching on page preceding title page. "A triangular prism is a transparent object, with ends in the shape of a triangle, which separates light that passes through it into the colors of the rainbow." "Helen Hiebert made all the papers in this book by hand. The colored text papers are all 100% premium abaca, colored with aqueous dispersed pigments mixed by Lata Gedala ... The cover is a cotton/abaca pulp blend with a pulp painting in abaca. All text was letterpress printed by Tom Leech at the Press at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico from polymer plates made by Boxcar Press. The typefaces are Dante and Futura. Claudia Cohen created the box."--Colophon. "This book explores the wonder of that interaction between color and light. As you flip through the pages, you will see 24 analogous colors (each new hue sharing some of the color of the page next to it). It's my attempt, as a paper artist, to capture the essence of a rainbow within the pages of the book. All 54 pages plus the cover of this book are stitched together into a single signature allowing the soft, deckled edges of the colors to meet at the fore-edge, blending and transitioning from one to the next as colored light does in a rainbow. The action of turning the thin, translucent pages, combined with the light source in the space you are viewing them in, creates an experience with color and light."--Helen Hiebert artist's statement.
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The English Book
Paula Hocks, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
60 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) . "... created during a season in London and Oxford, 1983-84." "This book is a limited edition of 1000 copies, of which the first 250 copies have been signed by the artist"--Title page verso Alphabet book containing both upper- and lower-case letters in different fonts and sizes. Each letter is illustrated with collaged images (photographs, maps, calligraphic texts, newspapers, illuminated letters, ticket stubs, newspaper mastheads, book covers, magazine illustrations, stamps, and stickers). Hand-colored by the artist. "Printing is by XEROX 8200 duplicator on Strathmore Bond papers, printed by the Sunflower Bookstore ... Santa Fe, New Mexico."--title page verso. Paula Hocks was the founder of the Running Women Press. Library has copy no. 28. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise
Jenny Holzer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[156] pages. The Nova Scotia pamphlets ; 3 Nova Scotia pamphlets ; 3. Folded poster (44 x 36 cm folded to 22 x 18 cm) inserted after last page. Cover title. On spine : Truisms and essays. Text in English, German, Spanish and French. RISD Alumna, MFA. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.
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Das hässliche junge Entlein = Le vilain petit canard = The ugly duckling
Warja Honegger-Lavater, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded sheet : [14] color illustrations ;. Folded story ; 15 Text in English, French and German. "adapted from a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, re-told and drawn on stone by Warja Honegger-Lavater, printed as an original lithograph in the Emil Matthieu Studio, Zurich ..."--page [3] of cover "'Folded Stories' are miniature works of art, original lithographs; they are so presented that they can be used both as books and as wall decoration. The Swiss artist has translated these fairy tales into her own picture language; she gives both children and adults, a genuine experience of shape and colour and, amid a world of prefabricated perfectionism, stimulates our imagination."--back cover. Accordion fold. Symbols and graphic design, wordless.
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Le Petit Chaperon Rouge
Warja Honegger-Lavater, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (41 unnumbered] leaves) : chiefly color illustrations (lithographs) ;. "(...) une imagerie d'après un conte de Perrault"--Title page verso. Accordion-folded pages (on a strip 16 x 435 cm folded to 16 x 11 cm) attached to dark red cloth boards; white paper title label printed in olive green affixed to upper board; in matching red cloth slipcase with green and white printed paper label on front. Includes key to ideogramatic characters in French (pages [1]-[2]). Artist's book by Swiss graphic artist and designer Warja Lavater, in which she retells the classic fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm with symbols rather than words or pictures. The images, composed of colored circles and rectangles, were never intended to merely "illustrate" the texts of Perrault and the Grimms, but rather to represent a "re-writing" or "réécriture" using visual codes or pictograms as graphic representations of linguistic elements, which would allow the spectator/reader to approach the story from a personal point of view. Included is a legend listing the meaning of each symbol; for example, a red dot represents Red Riding Hood, a black circle, the wolf, a brown rectangle the grandmother's house. Originally issued in matching red cloth slipcase with green and white printed paper label on front. This copy is housed in the clear lucite slipcase that predates the cloth slipcase? Printed on front side only.
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Spectacle
Warja Honegger-Lavater, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded sheet : color illustration. "Pictoson mural"--Cover. Parallel text in French, German, English, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Dutch and Italian on verso of sheet. Continous sheet folded in 11 sections, with images on one side and writing on the other. Accordion fold. Symbols and graphic design, wordless.
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Good Eats: sit down, relax & enjoy: it's the cook's choice: selections from an appetizing array of well-seasoned moments and finely diced tales
Gretchen Hooker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
portfolio with 4 flaps, enclosing loose plates; box cover; open box with loose prints; loose prints, 4. The portfolio cover looks like a neon diner sign and unfolds to create a placemat. Recipe cards include anecdotes about friends and special foods shared.
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Reptiles
Rand Huebsch, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion fold with hard covers; cover; title page; interior spreads; interior page. Etchings of various reptiles, with Latin names. Cover embossing created using an underlying clay mold.
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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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Book Book / 书书
Myungah Hyon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 plastic bag, 3 components . Cover title. "Book Book is an instruction book of intro-level bookbinding. Written by Myungah Hyon and illustrated by Yuchen Chang."--Printed Matter. "Edition of 500, Third printing, November 2019"--colophon. Accompanied by notched four-piece cardboard book stand. Stitch bound, exposed adhesive binding. Digital printing. Book and book cradle housed in a clear-plastic backpack with yellow drawstrings.
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Playing With Fire
Sandra Jackman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion fold with hard covers; cover; title page; interior spreads; interior page. The artist has taken a trade edition pop-up book and embellished it with collaged photographs and drawings, illustrating the story of Faust. Includes a ritual ring to be worn while reading the book. View video of Playing with Fire. ">
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Cry Uncle
Frances Jetter, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[23] pages (accordion fold) : color ill. (lino cuts). Cover title. Edition of 15. Accordion fold book. Linoleum cuts (18 x 24") printed on translucent Japanese paper. Text pages letterpress printed. Large typeface in old wood letters. In paper-covered portfolio with tie. Housed in a zippered canvas bag. Front side of bag has color printed illustrations which resemble a mask. "Largely based on what went on at Guantanomo and Abu Ghraib ..."-- artist in an interview with Zina Saunders. Library has copy no. 6. Signed by the artist.
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The Inventories
Sue Johnson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
four miniature books; miniature books, accordion with board covers. Sequences of images from ephemera and original drawings in unusual juxtapositions, creating a kind of "visual poetry".
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The Glamour Requirement: the 2014 Buffalo Jills Etiquette Guide
Stefanie Kalem, Whitney Coffin Shaw, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 40 pages, 1 slipcase. In April 2014, the Buffalo Bills were sued by their cheerleading squad,the Buffalo Jills, for several labor law violations, some as basic as minimum wage rate of pay. In the ensuing law suit, a document titled "Buffalo Jills Glamour Etiquette Hygiene Rules" became public and was published online. The appalling and insulting document is reproduced here with an editorial by Stefanie Kalem and illustrations by Whitney Coffin Shaw. -- Publisher's website. "The Glamour Requirement was printed on Rives 8FK paper from Monotype 20th Century and hand-set Futura types. The images are printed from photopolymer plates. The covers are imitation football leather." Edition of 30.-- Colophon. In a slipcase. Text in printed in blue and red. Author's text in blue, etiquette text in red. Seven signatures sewn together with white thread. Bound with open spine. "Typographic and grammatical errors in the Jills Etiquette Guide have been faithfully preserved"--Publisher's note. Signed and numbered by artists.
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All the Aldas
Daniel Kane, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet stitch, some fold-out pages; cover; cover page; interior spreads and pages. Poems revealing the author's obsession with actor Alan Alda.
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Some Recent Happenings
Allan Kaprow, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
14, [2] pages . A Great Bear Pamphlet ; no. 7. Cover title. "Four characteristic scenarios by the inventor of the Happening Concept."--page [4] of cover. CONTENTS: Birds -- Household -- Soap -- Raining. 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. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Aunt Sallie's Lament
Margaret Kaufman, Clair Van Vilet, Ellen Dorn Levitt, Audrey Holden, and Mary Richardson
Diamond shape bound book, 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. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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Drawings On A Bus
Ellsworth Kelly, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[44] pages : chiefly illus. Facsimile edition of a 1954 sketchbook. Sketchbook 23, 1954 Bauen in Eisenbeton, bauen in Eisen, bauen in Frankreich At head of cover title: Sigfried Giedion : bauen in Eisenbeton, bauen in Eisen, bauen in Frankreich. Title on p. [4] of cover: Giedion : bauen in Eisen und Eisenbeton.
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Flight Textile Book Two
Christine Kermaire, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 textile panel, 4 laminated cards : illus. (1 color). Title from 6 x 15 cm. laminated card. Edition of 300 numbered copies. Consists of a textile panel (62 x 88 cm.) with 2 grommets at top for hanging and velcro strips at bottom. Includes three 22 x 29 cm. laminated cards (description of cemetery, layout of cemetery, picture of shadow of monument on grass in cemetery) with velcro tabs at top so that they may be hung from bottom of textile panel. Also includes one 6 x 15 cm. laminated card with legend: Flight textile book two. 3 sheets fixed by "velcro" on textile panel. Christine Kermaire. Short texts in English, Dutch and French. Library has copy no. 153, gift of the artist.
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Walk on Red:Soundscapes on Broadway
Hoon Kim, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
sewn signatures with soft cover; cover; interior spreads and pages. Visual and graphic representations of sounds in various areas of Manhattan, using diagrams, satelite maps, and photographs. Incorporates factual information with quotations about cities and spaces. RISD alumnus.
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I Am The Place Where I Am
Jeong-Hoon Kim, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[32] pages : ill. (some color), maps (1 folded) "First edition limited to 150 numbered copies."--Colophon. "This book was designed by Hoon Kim, and all photos were taken from Google Earth."--Colophon. [8] page color booklet (13 x 10 cm.) stapled into the center. Cover is a folded map (28 x 38 cm.) Gift of Hoon Kim.
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Say, See, Bone : Lessons From French
Susan Elizabeth King, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[37] leaves . Title on 3 succesive leaves. Text consists of prose pieces by King, poems in French by Adloff and King's translation of Adloff's poems; letterpress translations, and corrections and comments printed as handwriting, appear on Japanese paper as overlays. "Designed and letterpress printed in an edition of 125 copies by Susan E. King at Paradise Press."--Prospectus. "The coptic binding was done by hand by Shelley Hoyt."--Colophon. Blue and white paste paper cover boards made by Susan King. Prospectus laid in.
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The Cursive Scandinavian Salve
Bengt af Klintberg, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
15 pages. A Great Bear Pamphlet (Unnumbered) 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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Intrusion
Ellen Knudson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 18 double leaves. "Intrusion is a modern bestiary that illustrates the conjured effects of human encroachment on nature and wildlife. These contemporary beasts are the amalgamation of animal bodies and environmental abuses - the illustrated outcomes of the human excesses of plastic bottles and bags, the unrestrained consumption of goods and the inordinate amount of garbage it creates, the imprudent disposal of decor and furniture, the overuse of water and the naive assumption that water is forever guaranteed, and the evolution of disease that is the consequence of carelessness "--Artist's statement, Vamp & Tramp, bookseller's website. "Text adapted from various online sources. Other text by the artist. Letterpress printed on Okawara mulberry paper from woodcuts on Baltic birch plywood, handset types, and photopolymer plates. Poetic verses on the reverse side are wriiten by the artist's son, Gus. Accordion binding by the artist with helpful conversations from Anna Embree. Printed in Gainesville, Florida."--Colophon Issued in slipcase with foil-stamped label. Accordion fold structure "12 tri-paneled pages.. Canson Ingres endsheets and pastedown. Dubletta and Duo book cloth on all enclosures--Vamp & Tramp, bookseller's website. Awarded the Jacque Mielke Award at the Bibliophoria V exhibition at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 2018
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Fledged
Lauren Koenig, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
2 unnumbered pages, 6 folded sheets, all parts are housed in a blue leather strap cover with a single tie. Title from invoice and confirmed by Tia Blassingame. "Fledged by Lauren Koenig is a collection of five myths behind the Aquila, or eagle, constellation. Contained in a leather cover, the booklets were letterpress printed on Rives Bfk and Chinese Heather papers using linocuts, handset letterpress, and a digital reprint of an original monotype"--Tia Blassingame, instructor. "Designed, printed and bound by Lauren Koenig in the spring of 2017 for Scripps College Press as part of the Art 135: Typography and Book Arts course taught by Professor Blassingame.. The Wergaia artwork is printed in collaboration with Alexandra Varga. All other artwork is linoleum cut and oil board printed."--colophon page.
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Monas (Unity): Notes on Time and Seasons
Louise Kohrman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
4 stab bound booklets, enclosed in an Asian wrapped portfolio, held with bone clasps; portfolio cover; first opening; title page; interior spreads; four volumes; two volumes open; portfolio closed, with four volumes fanned out. Each booklet, through abstract images and poetry, offers personal musings on nature and life, creativity, and time, within the changing seasons. RISD Alumna
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Hair
Sun Young Kong, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. Title from colophon. Title on cover in Korean. "Embroidery using hair"--colophon. Korean text is embroidered. Accordion folded, self cover. Limited edition of 20 + 1 artist's proof. Text in Korean, English translation on colophon.
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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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Notebook on Water, 1965-66
Joseph Kosuth, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 envelope ([15] leaves : illustrations, map (1 folded)) Title from envelope.
Originally a component of “Artists & Photographs”, the acclaimed boxed set of printed multiples by leading artists of the 1960s published by Multiples Inc. Notebook on Water comes as an envelope with 13 sheets of Kosuth’s conceptual practice, including handsome offset prints on a black background displaying dictionary definitions of aspects of water, one per page. Ice, water, steam, oxygen, hydrogen, and snow are accompanied by an introductory page of printed handwritten (by Kosuth) statements from Ad Reinhardt and Donald Judd, a map of the world, and a photograph of a radiator. – Printed Matter, Inc.
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It Is What It Is
Richard Kraft, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
5 volumes : chiefly color illustrations,. "On inauguration day January 20, 2017, artist Richard Kraft began issuing Donald Trump colored cards, just as a soccer referee penalizes players who transgress the rules and code of conduct. For four years, Kraft scoured the news and Trump's Twitter feed every day, notating and assigning each of Trump's transgressions a colored penalty card (at first, yellow and red, as in soccer--and then Kraft devised magenta, purple, and crimson for ever-escalating offenses). Kraft issued almost 10,000 cards to Trump, half of them in 2020. In this set of five artist's books, totaling over 1600 pages, the every-mutating, accumulating grids of colored cards reveal the frequency, chronology, and intensity of Trump's transgressions. They also become an almost hyperopic landscape--evoking musical notation, abstract painting, the processing of digital information, or geologic strata"--Publisher advertisement Editors: Lisa Peterson and Elizabeth Zuba. Index: Elizabeth Zuba. Cover and book design: Natalie Kraft and Richard Kraft. In slipcase. Errata card inserted (15 x 10 cm). Includes "Siglio ephemera #15" a [6] page folded color illustration, with subtitle on cover (20 x 13 cm). Case bindings. Volume cover colors: yellow, red, magenta, purple, and crimson. Fleet Library at RISD is listed in the "supporters who funded a Kickstarter campaign in the fall of 2020." volume one, page [5].
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A Sphinx's Field Guide to Questionable Answers
Michael Kuch, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[34] pages (unpaged) : color illus. (some folded). Printed by Art Larson. "... type from the banks of Horton Tank ..."--Colophon. "... meant as a kind of celebration of the merging of The Double Elephant Press' studio with the studio of Art Larson's Horton Tank Graphics ... The wood-type in the book comes from Larson's collection ..."--Accompanying description of the work, (1 sheet ([1] page)) laid in. "A key to the wood type in the order of appearance" ([1] folded leaf) laid in at end. Chiefly wood type specimens and color woodblock prints on folded leaves. Edition limited to 150 numbered copies. Issued in a red flax, three-flap chemise with ankh decoration.
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Incessant White Noise
Karen S. Kunc, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. Cover title. Trade edition of 30. Throw out accordion fold book. Irregular accordion fold bound into folio of covered boards with etching and mixed media decorative papers.
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Small Gifts
Karen S. Kunc, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 sheet : color illustrations . Author information from colophon. "This book began at midsummer with etchings made in Kustavi, and aquatints made at home in the fall. The text is handset and the paper is handmade of grasses and old sheets. All completed at winter solstice by Karen Kunc."--Colophon. Issued in an edition of 18. Bound in boards covered with blue, grey, and red paper. Text consists of a Finnish folk song. Color etchings and aquatints printed on handmade paper of grasses and cotton rag. Letterpress printed text. Accordion folded into covered boards. Library has copy no. 8.
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Stratum
Jihae Kwon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
8 unnumbered leaves. Cover title. Edition of 8, signed by the artist. "Inspired by Queen Liliʻuokalani's song Kuʻu Pua I Paoakalani, Stratum is about the importance of land and soil from the perspective of land and soil. Written, designed, and bound by Jihae Kwon ... February 2019"--Colophon. Wooden board covers, title laser cut into cover board. Stab, sewn binding. All leaves laser cut text and designs. Glassine papers bound in front and back. Colophon written in pencil. Library has copy 6.
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Sidereal
Sara Langworthy, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
72 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations "This book is made in its entirety by Sara Langworthy in Iowa City, Iowa"--Colophon. Edition of 35 numbered copies, signed by the artist. "Inspiration came from 'The heavens : an illustrated handbook of popular astronomy" by Amédée Guillemin. All text in Sidereal is excerpted from Guillemin's writing and reassembled here. The star images are drawn from plates presented in The heavens ... The afterword is a direct transcription found on page 311 of the fourth edition"--Colophon. "The images are printed from collagraph blocks paired with pressure print templates"--Colophon. Black, handmade paper over boards, in a gray cloth clamshell with white title label on spine. Library has copy no. 4. Longstitch binding, foldout pages, clamshell box. Winner of the 2020 MCBA Prize, an international artists' book award. Remnants of this book were used to make "Wandering stars," another artist book made by the artist in 2019 (RISD A.B. collection L 296Wa).
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Solid Phases
Sara Langworthy, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume ([50] pages) : illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm. Edition of 33 copies. Most of this book was designed and printed in 2008, during a Visiting Artist Residency at the University of Iowa Center for the Book, made possible by a grant from the Windgate Foundation. The final twelve press runs and binding were completed in the fall of 2012. The text was hand-set from a very worn case of Helvetica, and printed on a Vandercook SP-20. Images printed from a photopolymer plates and linoleum blocks. Papers, in order of appearance and omitting repetition, are: Sakamoto, Shin-Tobi, an overbeaten flax sheet made by Bridget O'Malley of Cave Paper, and assorted text-weight sheets made at the UICB Papermaking Facility. Four one-pound cans of transparent white ink were used in the printing of this book. Solid Phases is contained in a modified full-cloth case binding.--Colophon. Solid Phases is inspired by drawings of the molecular structure of ice, and the language used to describe the brittle bond of water in its solid phase. This book explores the fragile nature of connection, tendency towards stasis despite change, and the impact of stress upon a solid. The text is culled from the book Ice Physics (Peter V. Hobbs, 1974) in particular the first section of the book entitled "Solid Phases of the Water Substance."--Artists' website.
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Wandering Stars
Sara Langworthy, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 20 pages. Edition of 33 copies, signed by the artist. Text is letterpress printed. Images printed from multiple layers of collagraph blocks and pressure print templates. The paper is Okawara Handmade. Size and shape of papers varies. Handsewn into black paper cover. This book is made from remnants of the artist's work, "Sidereal," also printed in 2019.
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Thrift Store: the past & future secret lives of things
Emily Larned, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
case bound in hard cover; cover; interior spreads. The relative value of things is brought to mind when looking at objects in thrift stores. Discarded or recycled "treasures" reflect the life of their former owners. Interesting juxtapositions create found visual narratives.
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About change, about change, about change, change about!
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[20] leaves : color ill. "About change (about) explores the possibilities of combining the etching press and letter press."--Colophon. Issued in a plastic binder. The library has copy number 14 of an edition of 25, signed by the artist.
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A Hundred Years of: LEX FLEX
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[52] pages : ill. (some color) Cover title. "Digital prepress and offset printing are by Brad Freeman at Nexus Press on the Heidelberg KORD."--Colophon. Illustrated endpages. Bottom of colophon signed by the author. CONTENTS: Part 1. Innocence, elegance, riches & rags -- pt. 2. Wars, rights & ego-echo -- pt. 3. Cyber self & ether/other.
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Earth Score : A Sound Poem
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[45] pages : ill. "This book was printed by the artist using serigraphy and letter press. The various type styles were manipulated and hand set. The paper is Warren Patina and black Strathmore Rhododendron."--Colophon. Single signature sewn into paper cover & cardboard spine. "Edition 50, This book is number 46"--Colophon.
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Earth Score: a sound poem
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[45] pages : ill "This book was printed by the artist using serigraphy and letter press. The various type styles were manipulated and hand set. The paper is Warren Patina and black Strathmore Rhododendron."--Colophon. Single signature sewn into paper cover & cardboard spine. "Edition 50, This book is number 46"--Colophon.
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[Ho+Go]²=It
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[36] pages : all color ill. Edition of 500 copies.
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Imaging
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : ill. Edition of 35, this book is number 10, signed by the artist.
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Letters to the Ether/Other
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[14] pages (6 folded) Consists of a series of folded printed leaves between envelope-shaped papers. Cover title. "These Letters to the Ether Other first existed as one-of-a-kind, bas relief wall pieces. They read black-on-black with red & are constructed of paper, wood, metal, wire & paint. They were part of a solo exhibit in 1995 which included mail box sculptures & mail art. This small edition is a spin off of that work ... printed while the hand-set type was still in tack [sic] on various papers found around the studio"--page [1]. Edition of 10. This is copy no. 8. Signed by the artist.
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Measure, Cut, Stitch
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[32] leaves : ill. Cover title. "printed by serigraphy and typography. Edition of 75. This book is number 71"--Colophon. Signed by the artist.
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Measure Up
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[26] pages : ill. (some color) Cover title. "This book is no. 6"--Colophon. Signed by the artist. "Intaglio, aquatint, and chine colle - with typography. Printed summer 1994."--Colophon.
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Measurism
Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[20] pages : ill. Cover title. "Edition: 10"--Colophon. Library has copy no. 9. Signed by the artist.