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  Neopostmodrinism, or, Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo, or, Gub²rzub² number 6, or, The incognita of Rita's deep time coexisting within central discoveries of the thermodynamic dichotomy of western thought : observed impregnant meanings & transhistorical justifications

  Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, Perishable Press Unlimited, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [102] pages : illustrations . Alternate Titles: Neopostmodrinism; Neopostmodernism; Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo. Half title: Neopostmodernism, or, Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo, or, Gabberjab number 6. Series: Hamady, Walter. Interminable gabberjabb ; 6. No. 6 of the author's Interminable gabberjabb "series." Limited edition of 125 copies. Signatures: [1]⁴ [2]¹² [3]⁸ [4]¹⁰ [5]⁸ [6]¹⁰. Page count runs from [1]₁b to [6]₁₀a. [2]₉ and [2]₁₀, though joined to form a double leaf, have printing on one of the facing surfaces.

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  Through the Lotus Gate

  Katie Han, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 voume (unpaged). Metal spiral binding. Title and preface header also in Chinese. Gift of the author. RISD Alumna, Textiles 2016. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

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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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  Barrier Island

  Pattie Belle Hastings, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  58 pages : color ill. Includes interviews with Cumberland Island, Ga., workers and residents. Gift of Laurie Whitehill Chong.

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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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  Fertile Birch

  Judy Hoffman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 object. Title and production information from artist's statement sheet. "This one-of-a-kind artists' book is made of beaten, pigmented abaca fiber twisted and molded into lattice-shaped pages. It is one of a series of "Wild Books" in which the artist explores the idea of manmade objects taking on the aspects of a natural form."--Artist's statement.

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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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  In The Morning.

  Mei-Ling Hom, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 art work. A sculptural book work issued in paper wrapper. The book stands upright and opens to five sections. Text is printed across the fore edge of the "pages." Printing method: Silkscreen, letterpress, die cuts. Binding: Concertina. Edition of 108 copies. Library has copy no. 36.

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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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  A Domestic Besitary

  Judith Hoyt, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [20] pages : illus. Printing method: Etching. 100 rag paper. Binding: Sewn signature. Structure: Codex. Limited edition of 90 signed and numbered copies.

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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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  An Icelandic Saga, Part I

  Dorothoy Iannone, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [12] pages : illus. Booklet published on the occasion of the exhibition: Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone, held May 22-Sept. 11, 2005, Sprengel Museum Hannover. Title from colophon: An Icelandic Saga, 1978, 1983, 1986. Booklet originally issued mounted on the inside backcover of the Roth/Iannone exhibition catalog. Notes for an autobiography, part II, Berlin 1978, continued on the request of D. Schwarz.

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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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  My 9 Migraine Cures

  AnnE. Kalmbach, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [18] pages : chiefly illustrations . Printing method: Offset, die cut Binding: Concertina

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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 and Claire Van Vliet

  [25] pages : color illus. Originally published in an edition of 150 by Janus Press, Newark, Vt. 1988. Concertina binding. Stanley F. Moss Pop-Up Book Collection, Gift of Eugene B. Navias.

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  Aunt Sallie's Lament (Altered)

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

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

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  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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  The Man in the Moon

  Bryan Kring, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 wooden box : black and white illustrations. Title and statement of responsibility from box Signed by the artist Accompanied by wooden support stand (2 cm x 10 cm x 2 cm) "This is a moveable book without words. It is a free association dreamlike movie that begins with a vision of the man in the moon. When the wooden dowels are turned a scroll of very thin paper within the box reveals backlit drawings with a silent cinematic feel. Holes punched in the black cover paper illuminate like stars in the night sky framing the 'movie'"--Description from 23 Sandy Gallery website, viewed May 17, 2019 Scrolling box book. Handscroll. Two wooden dowels at the bottom of the piece turn the illustrated scoll either to the left or right. Dowels also fit into the wooden base so the upper piece can sit upright.

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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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  Los zapatos de tacón / Magali

  Magali Lara, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations . "Este libro se terminó de duplicar en marzo 2021. Su realización estar a cargo de Emmanuel García y Vanessa López. La encuadernación es de Su Yin Wong. El tiraje consta de 250 ejemplares impreso con una Risograph GR1750."--Colophon. Limited edition of 250.

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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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  Memories aux Bruxelles : The official music of the Brussels World's Fair / presented by Alexander Laszlo

  Alexander Laszlo, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. Program notes by Goodman Styne on container. Official march of the World's Fair / Peter Leeman (Symphony Orchestra of the Institut National Belge de Radiodiffusion) -- Music from the Belgian Congo (Congolese Boy Singers) -- Carillon music of the Dutch pavilion -- Music from the Japanese pavilion / Yusi Toyama -- March from the German pavilion (Frankenland State Symphony Orchestra) -- Memories from Italy / Rossini (Symphony Orchestra of the Ente Italiano Audizioni Radionfoniche) -- Band of the Garde Civique (Belgium's civil police) -- Carillon music from the Vatican pavilion -- Electronic music from the Netherlands pavilion / Varese -- Marche grande / Sladov-Sidoi (Choir and Band of the Army of the U.S.S.R.) -- Music from the French restaurant -- Music in the cafe Blue Danube. Gift of Vincent M. Love, Brown University, Class of 1954.

  Curated title for RISD Archives & Special Collections exhibition Now Hear This, fall 2023.

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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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  [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.

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  Muse Measures

  Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [53] pages : ill. Limited edition of 150 copies. Cover title. Letterpress artist's book created by Ruth Laxson. Binding is Japanese side-sewn style. "Printed on Birch Royal Fiber, UV Ultra II and Warren Patina, using typography, type-high engraving and offset. The type is mainly Caslon and Franklin Gothic. It was hand set and composed on the press bed."--Colophon. Typographical illustrations are combinations of letters, lines, symbols, and drawings. White paint applied to two images. Library has copy no. 60 signed by the artist.

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  Mythos Chronos Logos

  Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [22] leaves : ill. Part 1: Mythos (chance chants) -- Part 2: Chronos (timing) -- Part 3: Logos (logic). Cover title. Sewn in grey colored thread; five-hole Japanese stab binding with hinge-fold. Issued in grey paper boards; hinge-fold edged in grey cloth. Black endpapers. Printed in black and white. "Printed on various papers with hand set type: Caslon & Franklin Gothic ... Edition 40."--Colophon. Library has copy no. 24. Signed by the artist.

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  Playfulness Works

  Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [16] leaves : [8] color illustrations Cover title. Title printed on plastic covers. Alternate leaves are semi-transparencies with text. "The intaglio images and the book text were printed by the artist. The type was hand set in 14 pt. Baskerville italic and printed on Millers Falls onion skin paper. All intaglio images were printed on Murillo paper. Edition 12"--Colophon. "This book is number 7" Signed by the artist.

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  Power Poem

  Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [16] pages : ill Library has copy no. 92.

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  Retail the Tale

  Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [25] pages : ill. (some color) "Printed Feb. '96 - Feb. 97, typography, drawing, etching with chine colle on RIves BFK and UV Ultra 11"--Colophon. Edition limited to 15 copies, signed by the author. Oriental style binding (traditional format, Japanese). Library has copy no. 13.

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  Some Things are Sacred

  Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [26] pages : ill. Title in red on cover. Oriental style binding (traditional format, Japanese). Text in paper binder. "Edition: 50. This book is number 47."--Colophon. Signed by the artist.

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  Wheeling

  Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [40] pages : ill Cover title. Of an edition of 200 the library has no. 75, signed by the artist.

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  Where is Everybody?

  Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [10] leaves : ill. ; 18 cm. Two outsized leaves, one a pentagon, the other with a serrated outer margin. "Fall 1990"--Leaf [10]. Library has copy no. 15 of 20. Binding is oriental stitch (traditional format, Japanese).

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  A Basket is a reminder

  Aimee Lee, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 24 pages . Cover title. Unique copy. "A basket is a Reminder celebrates baskets and their overlooked role in creating and advancing human culture and life."--colophon. Pages of handcut handmade paper, laminated. One side is made of iris leaves; the reverse is of milkweed parts (seeds, coma, pods, bast fiber, inner stalk), cutouts, ink on handmade laminated paper (iris + milkweed). Text inkjet printing on handmade yucca paper. Sewn binding. Covers of walnut inked hanji basket rolled onto Arches Cover paper. Laid in four-fold wrapper with title printed on front flap. Plant harvesting and processing, papermaking, writing, and binding by the artist. Signed and dated by the artist. Copyright date hand written on back cover. Colophon printed on wrapper.

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  Conversations in the Sky

  Andre Bassuet Lee, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 folded sheet. Numbered and signed edition of 100 copies Photography and design by André Lee. Printed in Osaka, Japan --colophon. "When I look at the modern Japanese landscape, I see continuous lines of communication, telephone wires connecting friends and family. The Japanese sky is unique in it's infinite lines against a mountainous and architectural backdrop. Can you imagine all the conversations going on in the sky through telephone threads?"--colophon. A single thread runs through the entire text and covers. Accordion fold. Text and back cover printed in light blue on white. Cover printed in light blue and green on white. Colophon text in Japanese and English.

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  Picto Diary: After 1983

  Bing Lee, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 22 x 22 cm. Includes three page introduction: "Calligraphic automatism" by Eleanor Heartney.

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  Nightfall Faces

  Carolyn Leigh, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  drum leaf binding with hidden built up compartment holding BB's. Enclosed in a collaged and painted wrapping envelope, held with woven ribbon. Book closed with wrapper; book closed with wrapper open; interior spreads; back cover; cover. Visions of a primitive ritual dance performed around a fire are evoked through these images of tribal masks. Rhythmic sounds can be made by shaking the book like a maraca.

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  Untitled

  Sto Len, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  photographic print. Artist name and date from page [3] of cover. Pages are found atlas pages. Hand sewn into marbled paper cover.

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  Big Man on the Dot

  Ken Leslie, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. Doughnut-shaped leaf folded to a fan shape (24 cm, folded to 7 cm), text and illustrations on both sides ; issued in a paper slipcase. Text titled "Big man" appears on one side and "Our Dot" on the verso. Cover title. Contemplates our place in the physical and metaphysical universe. Opens to reveal verso size comparison of "Our Dot" Earth, the Sun, Saturn, and Jupiter. "Brad Freeman, Director, Nexus Press"--back of slipcase. Conical accordion fold in printed paper slipcase. Gift of Jan Baker.

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  Asterisms

  Drew Leventhal, Valley Books, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  44 unnumbered pages : all black and white illustrations. Title from cover. "Printed in England"-- back cover. "Edition of 200"-- publisher. "Inspired by the use of astronomy in colonial surveying techniques, Asterisms takes the stars as its subjects. Using telescopes and projectors to create constellations bursting with movement, Leventhal examines humanity's relationship with the night sky, our quest for godhood, and the way love can fill even the deepest void."-- publisher's webpage. Stapled binding. RISD Alumnus, MFA Photo 2022

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  Autobiography Sol LeWitt 1980

  Sol LeWitt, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 126 pages. Printed by Morgan Press Inc., Dobbs Ferry, New York.

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  River Dream

  Sandra Lopez, Sandy Tilcock, Lone Goose Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume. Woven binding with bluegreen handmade papers and three silver mesh ribbon pockets. Found river sticks in spine. Signatures woven and pockets tied with bluegreen silk gauze ribbon. Riverwood, stones, and pale salmon glass beads in pockets. Unique. One of a set of four. 1992.--From artists' invoice. Housed in a black cloth clamshell box with interior cutout and domed lid designed and constructed by Sandy Tilcock at the lone goose press, Eugene, Oregon. Housed in special clamshell box 24 x 20 x 10 cm. Gift of the RISD Library Staff and Mr. Fred C. Lohrum in memory of Anne VanLiew Walbrun, RISD '89.

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  Bologna Sample

  Angela Lorenz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  . "The 179 colors were all painted by hand in watercolor and glued individually onto acid-free paper produced by Cartiere Fedrigoni. The text was lithographed at Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy in Univers." Edition of 50 signed by the author, Bologna 1992. The cover is four-fold, the text pages have twelve-folds.

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  Paper Plates : She's A Dish

  Angela Lorenz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [2] pages, [6] leaves of "plates" : color illustrations in wooden crate. Title from laid in colophon. The book is housed in wooden crate, constructed to look like a shipping box for china or glass. The book consists of six round collagraphs, resembling the Italian ceramic dishes called "belle donne" or "coppe amatorie", which are inserted into two sets of paper tryptics made to resemble wooden cupboards. The text surrounding the collographs is cut from cardstock and glued to the surface to resemble the painted scrolls that were attached to the original dishes. paper produced by Cartiere Fedrigoni. The colophon, which appears on a folded leaf in the center of the book, was printed by Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy on archival paper produced by Cartiere Fedrigoni. Signed and numbered by the artist, Library has copy no. 21 of an edition of 24.

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  Soap Story : An Artist's Book

  Angela Lorenz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 picture album in case + 6 bars of soap. Title from case. Edition of 200 copies. Typeface for silkscreen and lithograph in Stone Sans and Stone Serif. Cover embossing and lithograph printing by Stamperia Valdonega of Verona. Linen from Gori Tessuti of Prato, soap from Saponificio A. Gori of Arezzo. Both case and soap are wrapped and tied as indicated in the summary note. "This artists's book tells the story of a young woman in Calabria, Italy during the 1950's, whose real life reads like a fairy tale, or a soap opera, in six installments. In order to give lasting form to this oral history, the reader must release the text, silk-screened on linen pages, from six tiny bars of soap, with numbers imprinted with lead type. After hanging to dry, ironing optional, the rags slot into six acid-free pages with oval die-cuts, through which the text remains visible. The pages are bound with a linen rag into a handmade, cloth-covered album, with the title embossed into a raised oval on the front cover. The book is housed in a matching cloth-covered box, lined with rags and sealed with a color-lithographed soap label."--from the soap bars wrapper

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  The Collective Alphabet

  Angela Lorenz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  The Collective Alphabet was created by a class at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia in 2012 and donated to Special Collections, Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design. Read more about the workshop.

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  The Theater of Nature, or, Curiosity Filled the Cabinet

  Angela Lorenz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : ill.. "Magic Lantern Edition" "'The Theater of nature...' is a variation on the original format, in which the water-colors are replaced by nine transparencies, alluding to the rise of photography and cinematography in 16th century magic lanterns. Most of the images are based on manuscript illustrations commissioned by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605), the first professor of natural history appointed in Italy and creator of an extensive museum of natural artifacts."--Colophon. Two mounted accordion fold illustrated texts. Each are printed on both sides and include color transparencies. Limited edition of 10 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Issued in folding paper case, which when mounted, represents a camera obscura. Library has copy no. 6. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund.

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  VeneTron

  Angela Lorenz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : map. 1 plastic envelope with zip closure holding 2 sheets of paper and 7 plastic sheets (each 28 x 44 cm) that include a map of Venice and index to locations of works of art; plastic stencil sheets have names of artists and pricked points for overlaying on map to discern locations of works. "VeneTron is a low-tech art-finding device that reveals locations of work by seven important Venetian artists. It addresses the complicated and confusing geography and history of Venice, Italy and is named for the Tron family, which rose to power in the 15th century. Getting from point A to point B in Venice is challenging because the city "center" is a series of islands currently connected by bridges. However, the VeneTron map is a watercolor based on an 18th century engraved map with only one bridge in the entire city, the Rialto. At that time boats were used even more, and bridges were wooden planks used or removed at will. Today, even with hundreds of bridges at your disposal, you might be headed in the right direction "as the crow flies" but suddenly the street will dead-end at a body of water. There are mistakes on maps, including Google Maps, when compared to Google Earth. It is very easy to get lost or take a wrong turn, even when you basically know your way around. Also, the VeneTron map has canals that don't exist today, except for on street signs; where the street name begins with "Rio terà" that tells you a former canal, or rio, was filled in."-- Colophon. Giovanni Bellini -- Vittore Carpaccio -- Rosalba Carriera -- Giulia Lama -- Jacopo Tintoretto -- Tiziano Vecellio -- Paolo Veronese.

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  Plastic

  Angela Lorenz, Janet Zweig, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 meal set (5 pieces) : styrene plastic and polyvinyl chloride, black and white ; in plastic bag. Edition of 20. A set of containers and cutlery of a kind used by fast-food restaurants; the two containers are connected. Text in large black typeface runs continuously from one piece to the next. "Plastic, 300 million LBS., Born in America of Petroleum parents, Doomed, to serve us, Instantly, After which .." Title from largest container. Edition statement and date from, "RE:Making a documentation of work by Angela Lorenz" published 2023. "'Plastics' is made out of white plastic ans styrofoam fast-food packaging and implements, adorned with a stark computer-generated press-type text commenting on the waste of mono-use plastic."--A. Lorenz. Contemporaneous research on plastic recycling for an environmental studies course term-paper at Brown University inspired this work.--A. Lorenz. Two plastic containers, a styroform cup, a plastic knife and fork. Created for Janet Zweig's course "Concrete Books" in the Graphics Department at Rhode Island School of Design. Gift of Janet Zweig.

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  Relation

  Anne Lovett, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [12] pages : illustrations. "A Sunburn Editions Book." Black boards with no spine connected by one sheet (2 pages) folded accordion style with glued-on flags, offset duotone on Mowhak Superfine paper. Printing method: Offset lithography, duotone. Binding: Concertina, case bound. Structure: Fold book (flag book).

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  Abby Rogers to Her Grand-daughter

  Joan Lyons, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  saddle stitch with soft cover; cover; title page; interior spreads and pages. Stories about childhood memories, stitched into a family quilt that is passed down to a grand daughter.

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  Abecé

  Joan Lyons, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  hand sewn signatures with cloth spine and paper covered boards. Enclosed in cardboard wrapper with thread tie. Cover; interior pages and spreads. Colorful images of letters of the alphabet, as found in grafitti on various public surfaces in Mexico City.

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  My Mother's Book

  Joan Lyons, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  saddle stitch with soft cover and two overlapping "French Door" spines; cover; interior spreads and pages. Stories of the artist's mother's family who immigrated in the early 20th century from the Ukraine.

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  The Gynecologist

  Joan Lyons, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  saddle stitch with soft cover; cover; title page; interior pages and spreads. Conversation between a woman and her male gynecologist. The physician is trying to convince the woman her reproductive organs are "totally unnecessary when child bearing is not a desired end."

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  Twenty-five Years Ago

  Joan Lyons, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  saddle stitch with soft cover; cover; interior spread and pages; back cover. The artist's wallet is recovered in an old air vent in her child's former school 25 years after she had visited his 4th grade classroom. The contents reveal life in the early 1970's.

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  Leaf

  Peter Lyssiotis, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  2 volumes. "Leaf was completed in 2017. The paper is Magnani Pescia 160 gsm. and the pre press work is by Chris Boone. The offset printing is by Redwood Prints. The book has been bound by Pohlmann Binders.. in an edition of 10 with 3 artist's proofs."--colophon. Illustrated endpapers. Signed by the author. At the edge of a forest, a man sees a mysterious woman working at a table, sewing words on a collection of leaves. By asking a series of questions, the man ultimately discovers the true meaning of her work.

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  Do Not Enter

  Marlene MacCallum, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  tunnel book variation, enclosed in a paper 4 sided wrapper with a thread closure; outer folio, closed; front view, closed. Although the text warns the reader not to enter, the haunting images of curious empty spaces and the unfolding of the tunnel book structure draw the reader in.

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  Shadow. Canto Three Incidental Music

  Marlene MacCallum, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. Cover title. Edition limited to 16 numbered copies, signed. Text appears blind-printed at the head and letterpress printed at the foot of some leaves. "'Shadow: Incidental Music' is the third canto of the ongoing project Shadow, a book work variation on the long poem format. 'Incidental Music' presents itself initially as a straightforward codex but upon opening reveals a cascade of nested accordion-fold structures. Naturally occurring patterns of light and shadow create cyclical but transient intrusions into interior spaces. Sunlight progresses through the time and space of the pages with a brief shadow-play balancing-act performed mid-way through. The images hover over and almost obscure the poem and soundscape components quietly awaiting detection within the folds below. Tpoem rests within the base of the text accordion. It is a variation on the villanelle and cycles through psychological states. The blind embossed soundscape floats within the uppermost folds. It evokes subtle movements in a space so quiet that you can hear the most minute sound. Each component of the piece -- image, poems, folded structures -- exists independently and plays out its own rhythmic logic and integrity; a visual, poetic and material ostinati. The components complement each other by their shared manifestation of transitions. 'Incidental Music' bridges one scene to the next. In this piece, however, the interlude is the significant event; the condition of being the present."--Artist's statement from dealer blurb (http://vampandtramp.com/finepress/m/Marlene-MacCallum.html). Colophon printed on verso of spine. In paper slipcase. Library has copy no. 13.

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  Theme and Permutation

  Marlene MacCallum, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  24 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Limited edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Cover title. "The images were printed on the Heidelberg GTO offset lithographic press at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Art by Clifton Meador with the assistance of Marlene MacCallum, Hannah King and Kate Morgan. The text was printed by Marlene on a Canon digital inkjet printer at the sillis lab in Corner Brook, NL. The book was bound by Marlene with assistance from Megan Musseau ... research team consists of Marlene MacCallum, Clifton Meador, Pierre LeBlanc and David Morrish"--Colophon. "[O]ne of four book works inspired by the experience of living in Corner Brook's Townsite area on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. I photographed in six homes--all the same model as the one I live in ... Theme and Permutation uses digital tools to translate the film sources and prepare the image files. The sixteen plates are then printed to explore the permutational possibilities of offset printing ... Each method of generating images and producing multiples results in a reconsideration of the content and offers varying formats for interaction by the reader"--Page preceding colophon. "Hand sewn pamphlet, images custom-printed in offset lithography on Mohawk Superfine, text printed in inkjet, covers are inkjet printed on translucent Glama"--Artist's website, viewed on November 10, 2011. Cover wrapper consists of two layers of translucent paper, each printed with a portion of the title. Library has copy number 58.