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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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 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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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.
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The Twin Plays : Port-au-Prince & Adams County Illinois
Jackson Mac Low, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
14 pages. A Great Bear Pamphlet ; no. 10. Cover title. CONTENTS: Port-au-Prince -- Adams County, Illinois. Staple binding. 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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24-Hour Armed Security
Josh Macphee, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
16 screenprints : color ; 1 pamphlet ([12] pages : color illustrations ; . Pound the pavement ; #21 A set of 16 screenprints housed in a hand cut and assembled enclosure (40 x 32 cm) accompanied by a 12 page stapled booklet. Limited edition of 20, signed by the artist. Library has copy no. 3. Numbered and signed on the verso of the enclosure.
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Flying Letters
John Maeda, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illus.. Digitalogue reactive book series, no. 2. Accordion fold text. System requirements for accompanying disk: Macintosh/Power Macintosh System 7.1 or above, True type/ATN outline font and floppy disk drive. Text in English and Japanese. Gift of Janice Woo, California College of the Arts.
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After Reasonable Research
Miranda Maher, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded sheet. Edition of 150."Years with no acts of 'open and declared hostile conflict' are indicated with a perpendicular line. Perhaps they were periods of peace"--cover. Issued in cardboard sleeve with velco fasteners. Accordion folded, printed on cream colored paper with a fleur-des-lis pattern.
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Shimmer
Jule Claudia Mahn, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, slipcase, 48 pages . Author, editor, translator and imprint from colophon. Short story by Jule Claudia Mahn accompanied by the author's photographs. "Set in Pollen Regular, Pigment print on Awagami Inbe, Thin white Washi paper ... in an edition of 13 copies in German and XVI copies in English ... 14th book in the series 'Verwandte Objekte,' Leipzig 2018"--Colophon. Exposed thread binding in Hollytex non-woven fabric. Housed in a paper-covered case. Enclosed in same fabric slipcase. All housed in two-piece grey board binder, held closed with two orange rubber bands (31 x 18 cm).
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Meaning Maker
Kent Manske, Nanette Wilde, PreNeo Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
volumes. "This is Art." Title from glassine envelope and each brochure. Seven single sheets (11 x 8 ¹/₂ inches), tri-folded, text on both sides, each sheet printed on a different color paper. Each folded sheet has a copyright date. Academic Conference Edition -- American Citizen Edition -- Art Viewing Edition -- Family Gathering Edition -- Higher Education Edition -- Periodic Personal Evaluation Edition -- Relationship to Nature Edition. "'Meaning Maker' is a guided interactive response structure tailored to specific styles of experience."--website. "PreNeo Press is the conceptual and collaborative space of Kent Manske and Nanette Wylde."--Press website. Gift of Laurie Whitehill Chong. 2nd copy gift of Nanette Wylde. 2nd copy includes the seven pamphlets in the previous copy plus three more printed items: 10 things you can do in troubling times like these (folded sheet, [6] pages ; 14 cm) / Tract no. 1 by Nanette Wylde -- 2017 Fact-checker guide to terminology, volume 1 (folded sheet, [4] pages ; 14 cm) / Tract no. 2 by Kent Manske (both PreNeo Press, 2017) -- I left my dog poop bag on the trail because: [check list] (single-sided slip, 14 cm)
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Tick, Tiger, Trout
Eva Mantell, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[20] pages : illus. Cover title. "Being a partial reading of the New York City phone book"--page [1]. "180/250"--page [3] of cover. Printed wrappers. Binding: Saddle stitch signature. Codex structure.
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Look Back
Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, map, portraits. Cover title. Collaborative response in an artists' book format to the letters of Anna Matilda Page King to her family (written between 1817 - 1859) from "Retreat", her St. Simons Island, Georgia plantation. Includes bibliographical references. Stapled. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Funny ha ha, Funny Peculiar
Emily Martin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume in slipcase, 19 pages. "Printed in an edition of 25 with several artist's proofs. Housed in a clamshell box covered in Japanese linen cloth."--colophon. "This book(s) is the result of my extended study of Shakespeare's comedies. I find the comedies individually to be enjoyable but there is a sameness to many of the plots that allows me to mix them up in my head. So much mistaken identity, gender confusion and various other contrivances while romping their way to a fifth act wedding or two. Even more problematic are the decidedly unfunny themes that are common in many of these same comedies such as hypocrisy, sexual harassment, intolerance, sexism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism. I struggled for a long time to integrate all these ideas. I finally realized that what I needed to do was to address each aspect separately, thus a dos a do book. Each side has its own focus and treatment. The characters are the same in both books. They are printed using the P22 Blox which are a set of modular shapes that can be interchanged to change the body's posture and gestures. The P22 Blox allows the presentation of the characters as interchangeable as well. Funny Peculiar is a drum leaf book and presents selected lines from five plays delivered by characters on a stage set. Funny Ha Ha is a slice book allowing the viewer to mix and match the costumes and gender of the characters in a variety of postures. Funny Peculiar is letterpress printed on an SP15 Vandercook proof press using hand set type and P22 Blox combined with rubbings, ink washes, and collagraphs to make the images. Printed on Domestic Etch paper with gray Pescia end sheets. Funny Ha Ha is printed on an SP15 Vandercook proof press using hand set type combined with relief printing using P22 Blox, collagraphs, and polymer plates from Boxcar Press to make the images. Printed on white Pescia paper with gray Pescia end sheets. Bound in a modified dos a do binding to hold the sewn text block slice book on one side and the drum leaf text block on the other side. The hard covers are covered with Arrestox book cloth and three vivid colored cotton papers color matched and custom made by Katie MacGregor."--emilymartin.com.
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Mutually Exclusive
Emily Martin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
5 magic wallets (Jacob's ladder module), enclosed in an Asian-style cloth covered portfolio with bone clasps; portfolio cover; magic wallets open and closed. Each booklet features conflicting text from media reports following the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. Opinions and beliefs, formed from the same information, are often opposing.
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So On And So On
Emily Martin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
dos à dos coptic stitch binding; first cover; interior spreads; next cover; interior spreads; end of second narrative and beginning again of first. The dos à dos structure conveys the cyclical nature of alcoholism. No matter which direction the story is told, the resulting disruption of family life is portrayed.
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The Anxiety Alphabet
Emily Martin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
coptic stitch binding, paper covered boards with common pins and needles inserted; cover; interior pages; back cover. The subject of anxiety is conveyed with humorous alphabetic verse.
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The House Detective (abridged)
Emily Martin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Japanese folding screen, dos à dos accordion variation, with paper hinges mounted over foam core house-shaped boards; title page; interior foldouts; back cover. Phrases commonly found in detective novels are illustrated in a cartoon-like caper.
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The Vicious Circle Series
Emily Martin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
3 dimensional hexa-flexagon; hexa-flexagons, detail; five hexa-flexagons; two hexa-flexagons (of five). Turning the ring of connected pyramids reveals a text that repeats over and over, just like many life situations.
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All Sorts
Emily Martin, Ellen Knudson, Jerry Chicone Jr., University of Florida School of Art and Art History, George A. Smathers Libraries, Library Press@UF, Boxcar Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
6 unnumbered leaves : color illustrations; added title page sheet; 1 pamphlet ([12] pages : color illustrations). Title from first panel. "The design of the artist's book .. began in the Smathers Libraries Special and Area Studies Collections during the summer of 2015. Ms. Martin researched the contents of the Jerry Chicone, Jr. Citrus Crate Label Collection. She learned that the grading system for citrus is displayed through label color: blue: best quality, red: second quality, yellow: third quality. Inspired by the labels' vibrant colors, geometric pattern elements, and the structure of fruit crates themselves, Ms. Martin designed a tunnel book .. the same size as many of the citrus fruit crate labels. The artist became intrigued by the concept of labelling and in response created an alphabetic system of words that are used to 'label' people. These words travel in a spiral of circular forms through the depth of the tunnel book. The viewer recognizes the words as personality descriptors that are positive, negative, and neutral"--Prospectus. "[T]he inaugural artist's book edition from the Marjorie S. Coffey Library Endowment Residency at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida and the first publication of the Library Press@UF .. The book was letterpress printed in the UF School of Art + Art History Type Shop .. The book is printed from photopolymer plates by Boxcar Press on Colorplan 100# Cover in Snow White. The structure is a tunnel book housed in a paper clip case made from Colorplan 100# Cover in Azure Blue and Factory Yellow."--Colophon. Limited edition of 35 copies plus an artist's proof, signed and numbered by the artists. Library has copy 17/35 and signed by Emily Martin and Ellen Knudson. Gift of the Marjorie S. Coffey Library Endowment Residency at the George A. Smathers Library at the University of Florida.
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Blue Yodo Waltz
Kyoko Matsunaga, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 scroll. "Rivers are the source of all development, and civilizations are made up of individuals. The original of this scroll was a collage on a QRS player piano roll of Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) which I happened to find at an antique shop. When I lived in Osaka, I took pictures of ordinary local people while walking along the city's iconic Yodo river all the way to the bay as a collection of slice-of-life scenes of people in the limited area and time that I could experience at first hand, and laid them on the stream of the elegant waltz. Even though Japanese society is highly homogeneous and (she) tends to avoid making outstanding individuals, Osakans steadily carry down its unique culture just as modern European culture had been passed down in the people around Danube river"--Artist's statement, 23 Sandy Gallery website. Issued in a box of ajio washi, persimmon dyed Kurotani washi, and Skivertex Nuba over boards. Scroll is wrapped in a silk cloth and laid into an inner drawer, which slides into the outer box
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Moonset Cordiero
Kyoko Matsunaga, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations. Title from artist's website; publication information from 23 Sandy Gallery Booksellers' website. Limited edition of 15 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "'Moonset Cordiero' is an ancient site of typography, mentioned on a television show in the artist's dreams of June 16th, 2012. This book is an assemblage of connections between this imaginary locale and realtime experiences. She traces memories, recalling scenes from her domestic and international travels. Viewers observe the dream's reflection from the mirror, which includes a glimpse of their own eye"--23 Sandy Gallery Booksellers' website, viewed on March 4, 2015. "Inkjet print, laser print on Japanese paper. Bugra paper (Black), bees wax, mirror"--Artist's website, viewed on August 21, 2014. Images are inkjet and laser printed on Kozo, Mitsumata, and Bugra Japanese paper. The book opens into a tunnel book with a small hole in the front and a mirror at the back. When viewers look through the hole, they can see four illustrated panels and a reflection of their own eye. The colophon is collaged to the bookboard backing next to the mirror. Library has copy no. 11. Signed by the artist 2013. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund.
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Curio
Melanie Mauro, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. "Curio was designed and printed by Melanie Mauro at The University of the Arts and Heirloom Press. The text is adapted from the 1868 collection of articles, Modern Women and What Is, and Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening". This book is printed using letterpress, screenprint and lithography on paper handmade by the artist" --Colophon. Includes inkblot imagery; some screen printed using black thermo-chromic ink that turns white when heated. Edition of 5, signed and numbered by the artist. Sewn on seven raised cords and bound in full white (alum-tawed) leather. Curio is a collection of "quotidian objects" that speaks to the idea of woman as domestic curator and as weaker vessel. The bisected halves of vases, a candlestick, a chandelier, a soup tureen, and fancy glassware are rendered in mismatched pairings interspersed with inkblots that evoke, in the manner of a Rorschach Test, the trappings of middle-class existence. "My prints and artist books explore the feminine sphere. Drawing from historical texts about and by women, my works are investigations of the female body and mind, and of women's traditional domestic and societal roles. As I seek to understand the legacy of suppression, surrender, and expectation, I overlap, juxtapose and intersect images and symbols. Quotidian objects struggle against the boundaries of symmetry in an examination of the enduring concerns of women.I use handmade materials and labor-intensive processes, such as handmade paper, alternative process photography, letterpress and lithography. These materials and processes imbue my images of bone, inkblot, vessels and text with the weight of the past, illuminating the parallel between historical and contemporary womanhood"--Artist's Statement, 2018 Thesis Exhibition, University of the Arts.
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Abecadarian
Ashley May, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
volumes : color illustrations . Vol. 1. A-M. Using high quality scans of vintage postcards, artist Ashley May creates kaleidoscopic digital collages. She re-purposes the traditional use of post-cards into a 21st century communiqué: the GIF animation. In collaboration with Endless Editions, Ashley May designed an artist book inspired by her GIF animations. This 14-page, accordion-bound book spirals outwards into a 28 x 28 inch circle, mimicking an animation in physical space. -- Limited Editions website. Accordion variation, fan binding. Book can be folded into a carousel variation structure.
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Alphabook 3
Scott McCarney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
2 accordion fold books with pop-up elements, enclosed in vellum wrapper; cover; interior views, pop-up. Cut outs unfold to reveal in one accordion book the letters A-M and in the other N-Z.
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Far Horizons
Scott McCarney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
maze book, folded and enclosed in a printed wrapper; cover; interior; interior, folded out. An accordion variation made by folding a piece of paper printed on one side into 12ths and cutting it so that the resulting accordion flow turns in multiple directions. Once unfolded, the resulting poster resembles a tradional quilt pattern called "Far Horizons".
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In Case of Emergency
Scott McCarney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet stitch variation with shaped pages and fold outs, enclosed in a triangular wrapper; cover; first opening; flat view; folded out; detail . When folded, the book wrapper represents a nuclear hazard warning. Inside the pages unfold in a dizzying confusion as images of planes and bombs are revealed.
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Index to the Encyclopedia
Scott McCarney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
perfect bound with soft cover, cover image foil stamped; cover; interior page and spreads. This book, though an artist book in itself, functions as an Index to "The Encyclopedia" a separate but related sculptural bookwork.
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Memory Loss
Scott McCarney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 sheet folded. Folded accordion style; binding consists of end boards and cord tie.
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State of the Union: live, evil, vile
Scott McCarney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
stab bound with soft cover and duct tape reinforced spine; cover; interior pages and spreads. President George W. Bush's televised 2003 State of the Union speech is captured in full screen head shots. The overlaying text, similar to close captioning, reveals nonsensical phrases made from the letters in the book's subtitle.
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The Field
Mary McCarthy, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
case bound in suede covered boards, enclosed in a suede covered box; box exterior; first opening; cover; interior spreads and pages. The day unfolds as the mist rises in a country field, little by little revealing the teeming wildlife found there.
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Tribal Alphabet
Mary McCarthy, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
case bound with cloth covered boards, endbands; cover; title page; interior pages; colophon. Twenty-six African tribes are represented with their masks, in alphabetical order. This book is the facsimile version of the original collage copy.
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Bird Watching
Paula McCartney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations "Additional support was provided by the Minnesota Center for Books Arts, Minneapolis, MN"--Page 31 "Comprised of twelve chromogenic photographs mounted on Rising Stonehenge 100% cotton paper. The printed text is in Souvenir Lt BT and the written text is the artist's handwriting on Zerkall Nideggen sand paper, and the endsheets are printed on Canson Mi-Teintes flannel gray paper. The book is covered in olive and brown Iris bookcloth"--Page 31 Includes "Field notes" (3 postcard sized items in mounted pocket), inside back cover. "Edition ... of 40"--Page 31 Summary: Bird Watching explores the idea of constructed landscape and is inspired by natural history illustrations and botany journals. The book documents how nature and fabricated elements can combine to create a scene that questions what is natural. The hard bound book is composed of twelve color photographs of fake birds placed in various landscapes, specimen labels, field notes, and diagrams. "This artist book combines photographic recordings of my bird sightings with specimen labels, field notes and diagrams to mirror a personal bird watcher’s journal. Both the photographs and text are a mix of truth and fiction. The images combine varied natural settings with carefully placed craft store songbirds to create an enhanced landscape, allowing the viewer to consider the landscape and the ways it can be elaborated upon."--artist's webpage. Perfect bound codex. Library has copy no. 32, signed by the artist. Library has a related book by the artist published by Princeton Architectual Press, 2010: TR729.B5 M425 2010
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On Thin Ice In a Blizzard
Paula McCartney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
36 unnumbered pages : all black and white illustrations Edition of 500. "Snow begins to fall, grows denser, and obliterates my view while exposing the cosmos. Ice shifts, opening a beautiful black void. A wondrous view as I begin my descent. On Thin Ice, In a Blizzard is a subseries of my project, A Field Guide to Snow and Ice. While all of the images in the field guide are excerpts of natural landscapes--just not all snow and ice--the images in this book were constructed in the darkroom. A winter of my imagination."--Paulamccartney.com. Stapled. Black paper cover cut-out in a shape, white paper inside with title displayed. Offset printed.