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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What Doesn't Kill You Will Likely Try Again
Paula McCartney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
4 volumes : all illustrations A set of four spiral bound square volumes. Book One published in 2017. Book Two, Book Three and Book Four published in 2018. Digitally press printed books. "Edition of 50"--The artist's website "'What doesn't kill you will likely try again' is a four-part book that continues my exploration into the repetition of form across disparate elements. Tracking and recording the light throughout the year in my home and studio encouraged me to slow down and be present in my surroundings. Patience was rewarded with moments of connection and balance, uncommon within the daily routine of life. The individual books act as thoughts and the set as a conversation and record the illuminated moments that align with existing or constructed architecture."--Melani McWhorter's webpage Risograph printed covers, grey lines on black paper. Library has copy no. 36, signed by the artist.
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Book of Trees : Both Native and Introduced
Paula McCartney, Andy Sturdevant, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits "Digital press printed by Conveyor Arts, with letterpress printed cover and rounded corners"--Paulamccartney.com. Cover title. Limited edition of 250. Endpaper sheet in wood-grain pattern. Stapled.
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In a cafe
Frances McConihe, Richard Brautigan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 12 pages. The book is an accordion fold (15 x 116 cm) mounted onto a cloth covered binding. Intaglio and photocopy printing. This book was completed for the "Private Press" course spring semester, 1997, RISD. The instructors were Russell Jones and Duane Slick.
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Pot calling the kettle black
Kevin McCoy, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 28 unnumbered pages. Black people in America have been taxonomized as "savages" or "lazy" and dehumanized by mainstream media which are derivatives of early scientific racism. Back in the 19th century, blackface was used primarily by white performers to demean Black people and as a source of entertainment. The titling of this publication, Pot Calling the Kettle Black, is an idiom used in the Black household to underscore blatant hypocrisy. This publication offers critical observation of the use of blackface and its variations found deeply embedded in cartoons, pop culture, the fashion industry, and beyond.-- Work / Play.
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Octopus
Elizabeth McDevitt, Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. Title from case. Accordion style binding to produce a three-dimensional effect. In case. Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates; collographic prints. Edition of 100 copies.
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Campsite
Andi McGarry, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[12] pages : color ill. . Title from cover. Gift of Laurie Whitehill Chong.
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Life Signs
Bonnie McLesky, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[14] pages : color illustrations. "...made by The Blue Press and Bindery of Berkeley, CA. Cutouts, text, binding and letterpress work by Bonnie McLeskey. Printed on Canford Cover in Gill Sans; at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Flag structure by Hedi Kyle. First made 2/98. Reworked 6/99. No. 1 of 6."--Colophon. In binder with author note laid in ([1] page) "Life Signs began as a project for my bookbinding class with Julie Chen at Mills College in February 1998."--Note laid in binder. Accordion fold binding. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Wild Waves
Barton McNeil, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[11] leaves : illustration. "Conceived and printed letterpress in an edition of 200 by Barton McNeil, 1979"--colophon. Unbound, [11] folded leaves, in paper cover. Most leaves printed with the single word, "splash." Printed in various fonts, and sizes. Address of the Press printed on page [4] of cover. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Long slow March
Clifton Meador, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm. Contents: Introduction -- Distant rancorous voices 1 -- Every mile between Selma and Montgomery -- Persistence of evil -- Conflagration. "The textual pieces are drawn from a variety of primary sources, from mid-nineteenth-century slave narratives, to slavery apologists, to mid-twentieth-century segregationist crazy people. Some have been slightly fictionalized."--Colophon. "This book was produced and printed at the Center for Editions, Purchase College, Purchase, New York. Summer 1994 to fall 1996"--colophon. Maps on lining pages, Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Text includes photographs from the same route and images from the marches and demonstrations. Offset printing. Case binding with illustrated dust jacket. RISD Alumnus, BFA, Photography, 1980. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.
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Palpung Parkhang
Clifton Meador, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[22], 7 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), map. Printed and produced at the Center for Book and Paper, Columbia College, Chicago. 1 hand sewn binding (two signatures) and 1 stapled fold (notes section); paper cover. "This collection of black and white and color photographs were taken in the Palpung Monastery in Palpung Parkhang, Tibet. Each spread consists of one numbered photograph. Each number matches a note in the back of the book which details the artist's experience while walking through the monastery: what he sees, what enlivens his senses, and more concrete facts about the people and what they are doing in the photographs. The footnotes create a dual narrative of the artist's experience and the converse experience of the monastery's inhabitants. The book lies flat so that the photograph's composition is unhindered by a gutter." --Printed Matter website. RISD Alumnus, BFA, Photography, 1980. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.
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Pig 05049 : 1:1
Christien Meindertsma, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (various pagings) : chiefly ill. (chiefly color). "Concept, photography, design & illustrations, Christien Meindertsma"--title page verso. The project was exhibited in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 2008. 3rd printing, Oct. 2009. Includes index. "Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel. Meindertsma makes the subject more approachable by reducing everything to the scale of one animal. After it's death, Pig number 05049 was shipped in parts throughout the world. Some products remain close to their original form and function while others diverge dramatically. In an almost surgical way a pig is dissected in the pages of the book - resulting in a startling photo book where all the products are shown at their true scale (1:1)."--artists' website (2.4.2014) A yellow plastic tag with the title is attached to the spine of the paper book jacket. Texts in English and Dutch.
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I Sit and Sew
Lise Melhorn-Boe, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations . Limited edition of 12 copies signed and numbered by the artist. Pages sewn in fold cloth wrapper. Set in Goudy Old Style. Screen printed. "Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's poem was published in Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (1927)".--Cf. Colophon. "Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's poem is in the voice of a woman, during WW1, who wishes she were doing something more active to help the soldiers, rather than sitting and sewing. The book's format is modelled on a WW1 'housewife,' a soldier's sewing kit. As it unfolds, the viewer will find sewing tools and eventually the text."--Cf. Vamp & Tramp website. Tri-fold cloth wrapper, with buttons, straight pins, safety pins, sewing needles, thread card, mounted scissors either sewn or pinned to the wrapper. Includes embroidery, mounted lace and linens. Library has copy no. 5.
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Voyagers
Catanese, Melissa; Special Collections; and Fleet Library
1 volume. 'Voyagers' consists almost entirely of anonymous black-and-white snapshots of people in various postures of reading in living rooms, on beds, at the beach, eating breakfast. We can't see what these readers are thinking, but Catanese occasionally breaks the hypnotic typological rhythm to reveal a new photographic element - a pyramid, a starry night, sunlight blindingly glowing through a window - giving us brief glimpses of the readers' potential narrative journeys. A wordless book with the size and feel of a vintage paperback found at a flea market, 'Voyagers' reminds us of the power and intimacy of our relationship to reading devices, and evokes an exotic nostalgia for our recent predigital culture. As with Catanese's prior books (Dive Dark Dream Slow [2012], Hells Hollow, Fallen Monarch [2016]), the images were judiciously selected from the collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular photographs from the early to mid-20th century. Gathered from flea markets, dealers, and eBay, these images have been acquired, exhibited, and included in a range of major museum publications.
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On display in a gallery that no longer exists
Walker Mettling, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 36 pages. Color illustrated title page. Includes ten color risograph prints. Silkscreen cover with stitch binding. This book is a visual document of the RISD Museum 2017 Artist Fellow, Walker Mettling. It includes his drawings and observations from his time in RISD Museum (particularly storage). "I drew all the artifacts in the book with my left hand, using a superstition against handling sacred objects with your right hand (to ward off curses) as a way of trying to respect these objects." - walkermettling.tumblr.com/page/2 "Writen and drawn in January/February 2018.. Book binding by Julia Gualtieri. Screen printed at AS220 Industries in Providence RI."- colophon.
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Emissions Book
Katharine Meynell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet stitch variation with parchment reinforced spine, some acetate double layer pages enclose tiny ziploc bags, stitched in place; interior spreads; cover . Disturbing images and unknown substances sealed in ziploc bags suggest that the reader should be careful touching this book. Fear of disease is now associated with the pleasures of physical intimacy.
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Seas of the Moon
Katharine Meynell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
hand sewn signatures with metallic paper hand stitched to the cover pages, book enclosed in a denim cloth slipcase; cover; title page; interior spreads. Images of the poetically named "seas" of the moon's surface are conveyed with images of parts of baby clothes, implying the relationship between the full moon and childbirth.
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Volumes (of Vulnerability)
Katharine Meynell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet, saddle stitch, spiral bound, accordion, portfolio, all enclosed in a metal box; front of box; covers of assorted books. Twenty artists create small bookworks focusing on the vulnerability of our current society as the clock ticks toward the year 2000. This box recreates the touring exhibition, curated by Susan Johanknecht and Katherine Meynell.
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Erotica Botanica
Catherine Michaelis, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
16 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Artist's book written, designed and created by Catherine Michaelis. Limited edition of 40 copies, signed "Catherine Alice" by the artist. "Enter the sensual Erotica Botanica through an unfolding caress of its leaf shaped pages. Delicate flowers with enticing organs float up from the folds above a bed of leaves and seed pods. Erotic verse, written by flowers and pollinators, inspires the viewer to contemplate the sexual desire of plants."--May Day Press blog, viewed 12/6/10. The deluxe edition ... has a ... wrapper with supporting top and bottom flaps and five pop-ups, (one delicately concealed in the top flap) ... There are two blue flaps inside that hold the book in at the top and bottom ... All the imagery for the book was printed from stencils I designed and cut. Except [one] flower which Billy [Michaelis's husband] made. I think this is the only stencil that was cut once. All the other stencils for the book were cut at least twice, and some (including the leaf pages) three times! There are four different flowers and they pop-up from the folds."--Vamp & Tramp website. "Hand-set type, letterpress printed over relief-printed stencils on Domestic Etching. Folded accordion style and pamphlet stitched. Enclosed in a wrapper."--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website. Hand-cut leaves and flowers letterpress printed. The pages are 17 x 66 cm, folded to 17 x 11 cm and placed in a 4-flap paper wrapper. Four different flower pop-ups emerge from the folds of the pages, and a butterfly pop-up from the wrapper. Images are pressure prints. Library has copy no. 21.
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Duane Michals : Photographs, Sequences, Texts, 1958-1984
Duane Michals, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
104 pages : illus. (some color), ports. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, December 9, 1984-February 3, 1985 and other museums. Text: Marco Livingstone ; also includes an interview with the artist. Bibliography: p. [98-100]
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Ruderal Plants in Manhattan
Susan Mills, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[30] leaves : color illus. Handmade book with wooden covers, and endpapers made of abaca, ruderal burdock and ruderal dandelion. Ten single fold signatures sewn together into wooden covers. Front cover has a two color print. Printing method: Silkscreen. Coptic binding Library has copy no. 51 of 100.
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Endless Bridge
Mikhail Mishin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 80 pages. "A visual retelling of creation, Mikhail Mishin's Endless Bridge utilizes juxtapositions and stark comparisons in a narrative that spans from birth to death and back again. iPhone photos, newspaper clippings and other found materials are the vocabulary used in this book in which light is separated from dark, and order emerges from chaos, only to revert back into nothingness. Images in this book have the quality of archaeological artifacts, where the transient qualities of an inflated tarp, a light reflection on the pavement or footprint in the concrete are highlighted. We know what comes after, we see what came before. Yet these fleeting moments hold great weight in the larger context of this cycle."--Publisher's website, viewed April 25, 2019. Limited edition of 100 copies. Black on black illustration on paper cover. Perfect binding.
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Unfolding Practice : Reflections on Learning and Teaching
Arzu Mistry, Todd Elkin, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Issued in an edition of 50 copies. "Unfolding Practice: Reflections on Learning and Teaching is a conversation between two artist-educators. Flowing across five chapters, the double sided accordion book has been curated from ten years of recorded conversations, field notes, planning, sketches, reflection, and teaching. The front of the book weaves text, illustration, cutouts, and screen prints, journeying through artistic process and educational practice. The back of the book is a guide, expanding on the practice of using accordion books as a tool for capturing, visualizing, and building upon reflective thinking. The brown paper alludes to the craft paper that is ubiquitous in schools and captures process more than the preciousness of a final product. Throw out accordion in hard covers."--Publisher's website, http://www.wsworkshop.org/artists-books/new-artists-books-from-wsw/, visited on July 29, 2016. "The book was hand and laser cut, and silkscreen and digitally printed on Construction Cement Green and Brown Kraft French paper. The type is Helvetica Neue 9 point."--colophon. RISD Libraries' copy is no. 31, signed by both artists.
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Ni Queue Ni Tête
Vera Molnar, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded sheet (46 unnumbered pages) : illustrations Issued in a clamshell box with paper cover label and compact disc mounted inside front cover. Includes a pamphlet with text by Jean-Yves Bosseur. Edition of 100 copies. Inkjet print on paper. Accordion book. In French. Library has copy no. 46. Purchased for Fleet Library at RISD through the Anne (MFA 92), Michael, and Amelia Spalter Fund. SEI
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Blink
Nearing Mongirdaite, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
144 unnumbered pages . Cover title. The winner from the Napa Flipbook Competition 2017 by Lithuanian artist Neringa Mongirdaite. Edition of 500 copies. Edition number from Printed Matter website. Offset printing. Perfect binding.
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Don't Cut Your Hair It's Beautiful
Kellee Morgado, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
3 volumes : color illustrations Edition of 50. Each volume has 24 unnumbered pages, bound so that the reader can lift the center illustration to reveal a larger illustration within. The gatherings are unopened throughout, obscuring text and illustrations. In a cloth-covered portfolio, held closed with a printed paper band. "The work questions personal rituals surrounding hair, constructs associated with hair in Western culture, and the shift in value when hair is unattached to bodies. In this ongoing inquiry I explore my own experience with femininity, womanhood, my relationship with my own hair, and how it conforms to or disrupts constructed norms"--Paper band. "The third artist book of the biennial Parley Project"--Portfolio. "Offset printing on Ultra Green Film (text pages), Bugra Antique Rose (paste downs), hand set lead type (News Gothic Bold & Century Bold Italic), Hollanders starched linen book cloth (Natural/Kennett), photopolymer plates, Rising Museum board, monofilament, Arches Cream (belly band)."--Artist's website. "Don't Cut Your Hair It's Beautiful began as an exhibition in which I explored hair as both a material and a concept through experimental printing processes. The work questions personal rituals surrounding hair, constructs associated with hair in Western culture, and the shift in value when hair is unattached to bodies. In this ongoing inquiry I explore my own experience with femininity, womanhood, my relationship with my own hair and how it conforms to or disrupts constructed norms.... This work is continued by Don't Cut Your Hair It's Beautiful in an effort to disrupt and explore the relationship between hair that is considered valuable and hair that must be hidden, removed, and made invisible. The book includes contributions from twelve creatives in particular, but not limited to, those working with hair as a subject or material. These individuals were invited to respond to one of several prompts or to generate their own response about hair on the body. They could also choose to include an image, either found or made. These twelve writings provide thoughts and experiences surrounding hair, multiple points of access, and themes connected to hair on the body including: shame, resistance, and identity...."--inside belly band. Three pamphlet stitch booklets in portfolio with paper belly band. Library has copy no. 22. Jan Baker Fund.
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A Visit From St. Alphabet
Dave Morice, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. "Composition & rubyliths by A.B. Presswork by A.K. Poliphilus, type on Ragston. 2,000 copies in this second printing."--Title page verso St. Alphabet slides down the bookcase, fills the pages, and rides off on his "A." Title page printed in green, black, and red. Pamphlet stitch, red paper wrapper with illustration. Inscribed in pencil to Jan, from Lorraine, dated 12.1985. Gift of Jan Baker.
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A recuerdo for Ste. Ostrich
Lois Morrison, Julie Chen, Elizabeth Collins, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 object with removable objects. Title from cover. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Date of publication from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website. House-shaped, shrine-shaped structure with front cover as doors that open to a three-dimensional scene with a movable part using pull tab and a pullout drawer containing miniature artifacts to the satirical story, a shovel and bucket of sand. Pullout drawer with artifacts and colophon. Printed letterpress on a variety of papers including paper made at Papeterie Saint-Armand.Book and artifacts made and assembled at Flying Fish Press. "A recuerdo for Ste. Ostrich was written and illustrated by Lois Morrison, with book design and paper engineering by Julie Chen. The ex-voto painting was created by Elizabeth Collins. The edition of 50 copies was letterpress printed on a variety of papers including paper made at Papeterie Saint-Armand."--Colophon. Text in English and Spanish. Book artists Lois Morrison and Julie Chen have been friends for 40 years and have worked together on three artists' book collaborations including Ste. Ostrich in Manhattan: The Visitations of a Martyr (1990) and this most recent work: A Recuredo for Ste. Ostrich. A recuerdo is a memento, here a votive offering to a saint or divinity given in gratitude or devotion. In Mexico there is a long tradition of these offerings, giving thanks for a miracle or favor. This house-shaped votive recounts several stories about Ste. Ostrich. The outside tells and shows the intercession of the Sainte when a breakdown strands a mother and daughter in the desert. Inside are a series of connected stories recounting the ostrich's saga - her unappreciated gift of sand, unappreciated first at the birth of the baby Jesus, then by the sisters in a convent, then by the people of the Mexico. All this leads to her martyrdom and subsequent beatification. As in all of Morrison's religious work, this one has an element of quirkiness and dark humor. Though this seems to be looking through the glass darkly - only gift the ostrich has is rejected by all, the ostrich breaks her neck trying to bury her head at the bottom of a swimming pool -- ultimately the positive wins out. Even the seemingly most unworthy, even the lowly ostrich who "God hath deprived.. of wisdom..[and] understanding" (Job 39: 13-17) is valuable and able to perform miracles. -- Vamp & Tramp Booksellers WWW site, viewed June 9, 2017.
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Ste. Ostrich in Manhattan: the visitations of a martyr
Lois Morrison, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. "Ste. Ostrich ... was written and illustrated by Lois Morrison. It was designed and printed by Julie Chen with the assistance of Elizabeth McDevitt ... In an edition of 125 copies this is number: 70." Gift of Freshman Foundation. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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The Mexican Dog-Tosser
Lois Morrison, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations . Title from cover. "Gone back into with water-color and ink. Lettering is hand printed. The cover is chisel cut banana; the case, Mexican bandana ... edition of 25, This is no. 13."--Colophon. Accordion fold format with jointed figure in pocket. In cloth envelope, fastened with button.
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Reconfigured Families
Alexander Mouton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
110 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations Title page and size of book designed in the format of a Southwest Airlines boarding pass. Edition of 25. Reconfigured Families follows the experience of one 21st century family, sometimes referred to as the "postmodern family" or even the "brave new family," through photographs that document the long-distance relationship I share with my two children who have been living in Bloomington, Indiana during the school year while I reside in Seattle, Washington. This sequence of images was made during our monthly travels to be together over the six-year period 2009--2015. During this time, I also learned of other parents who traverse geographies to juggle career and family, moving between Seattle and Hong Kong, Berlin and Bonn, Columbus, OH and Melbourne, Australia, Los Angeles and London, and Boston and Berkeley, CA, to name just a few configurations. In the image sequence that makes up the book, images of the kids are paired with a composition I photographed over and over again from a particular seat on the airplane looking out the window in various seasons, cities, times of day, and weather conditions. The juxtaposition of these images with images of the kids as they grow up brings to the fore the repetitive nature of the travel involved in our relationship. The experiences of this one reconfigured family shed light on the broader social, economic, and environmental reverberations felt throughout our ever-widening globalized culture. They also reveal the beauty and richness of urban culture and the surrounding natural environs and the tenderness of the siblings' evolving relationship. Illustrated cloth binding. Author, title, press name and date of 2020 on spine. Library has copy 10. Jan Baker Artists' Books Fund.
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50 Years: Roe v. Wade...
Greer Muldowney, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations Title from cover. "Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, decided on January 22nd, 1973. The Court ruled that the constitution protected the right to have an abortion, securing choice and bodily autonomy for American women. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, No. 19-1392, 597 U.S. nullified the precedent of Roe v. Wade on June 24th, 2022. This decision has left reproductive rights to be decided on a state by state basis, compromising the health and access on healthcare for half of the country after 49.5 years of the constitutional right to do so. The following is a musing on the shifting political and cultural icons that have had a longer liftspan than Roe v. Wade. We may want to ask ourselves why certain things have endured, and why they may not in the future."--page [2], signed by the artist. Pagination includes cover.
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Saluti E Baci
Bruno Munari, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
93 pages illustrations (some color). Block notes. A collection of photographic postcard images which have been altered by interpolating and transposing geometric figures or parts of the same or other photographs. Text in Italian and English. Translated by Isobel Butters. Cover has a cut-out window with a piece of string "coming" out of the window of the postcard reproduced on the title page. Library has 3rd reprint, 2005. Signatures glued into paper cover. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Dear Laurie, Dear Gülşah
Gülşah Mursaloğlu, Laurie A. Palmer, E.S. Kibele Yarman, Umur Publishing, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
108 unnumbered pages : color illustrations + 1 poster. Cover title. Edition of 500: 300 in English, 200 in Turkish Coptic bound with wrap-around cover that unfolds to become a poster. "'Dear Laurie, Dear Gülşah' is a publication that brings together the correspondence between A. Laurie Palmer and Gülşah Mursaloğlu across disparate geographies, from April to September 2020. Within this transformative year that bore witness to a global pandemic, anti-racist protests, downfalls of power figures and monuments and fires around both continents, the letters both reflect on the present moment and offer insight into the artists' practices and long-term projects."--Letter from A. Laurie Palmer CUZ "Texts: Gülşah Mursaloğlu, A. Laurie Palmer ; Book Design: E.S. Kibele Yarman ; Photos: Sarah Bird, Gülşah Mursaloğlu, A. Laurie Palmer, Jared Powell .."--Colophon Gift of Laurie Palmer.
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Bernoulli Equation for unsteady potential flow
Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 sewn book in slipcase. Title from colophon. Edition of 40 numbered and signed copies. Bernoulli's equation for unsteady potential flow in Greek symbols above title on colophon and on first leaf. "This book visually and tactilely mimics the action of a body in water. The Bernoulli equation for unsteady potential flow (named for Daniel Bernoulli, 18th-century Dutch-Swiss mathematician is used, among other places, in the theory of ocean surface waves and acoustics."--Artist's website. Artist's book by Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli, comprised of a sequence of strips of photos which represents the nature and meaning of water, traditionally associated with the qualities of emotion and intuition. Book is constructed in a palm leaf structure, sewn with thread through the body of the book, intended to be manipulated to allow pages to fall. The wavy patterns of each strip, as well as the book as a whole when extended, suggest the flow of waves on the surface of the ocean, described in mathematical theory by Bernoulli's equation for unsteady potential flow. "Digital pigment prints on Epson Premium Luster Paper, 2008"--Colophon. "A nine photo series of bodies in water that when held in a hand can flow in the other or can behave like waves"--Artist's statement from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, website. In box (29 x 18 x 4.5 cm), green paper throughout, magnetized closing-clasp. Box has equation printed on cover.
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Tempus Fugit
Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 circular flexagon : color illustrations ; 20 cm in diameter. "While watching clouds that were passing over the port of Genoa (Italy) I was inspired to create this artist's book. In the midst of thoughts about nature's forces and movements, tragic events in my life let me take stock of my existence. The movement of clouds creates an unpredictable and mysterious energy that colors our thoughts. In this atmospheric energy I found the strength to contemplate my past and imagine my future. I even glanced at my horoscope to counter nostalgia, sadness and anxiety about my destiny. These coded messages, sometimes prophetic, often funny, became my travel companions. As clouds and astrological predictions came and went, I found a new equilibrium that enabled me to envision my new life"--Colophon. "An artist's book creates a space to tell a story. To the question 'how to represent clouds?' I constructed a three dimensional structure that turns and eddies on itself while embodying a visual tale. Like a book, the structure opens to allow a linear reading of the photographs and texts.. Vellum, bristol, Mohab Entrada, brass"--Colophon. A vellum flexagon structure with color printed Mohab Entrada paper and brass, board, ribbon and magnet closure. When closed, the flexagon forms a circle. Twelve circular cards are attached to the inside of the structure, one for each month of the year. The cards are printed with reproductions of photographs of clouds on one side and horoscope texts on the other. A paper and board title label is attached to the outside of the flexagon. Issued in a clamshell box of glossy-white-paper-covered boards with magnetic closure. Paper title label attached to box lid. The box is lined with blue paper, with a signed and numbered colophon sheet attached. The flexagon rests inside the box underneath the colophon sheet.
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The Killing Machine, Kosovo 1999
Louise Odes Neaderland, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
4 pages : all ill. Title from cover. Photocopies mounted on a leaf of folded red paper.
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The Nuclear Fan
Louise Odes Neaderland, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
10 leaves : chiefly color ill.. Paper fan in paper sleeve. Sleeve has a red tassle looped and tied from the base. Title from sleeve.
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Trump Circus
Louise Odes Neaderland, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits. Paper cover sleeve with cut-out windows. Two sheets of illustrations designed to slide in and out of the sleeve. Edition of 24 numbered and signed by the artist. "Artist ... Neaderland responds to the Trump presidency: a cage-like sleeve provides frames for images of Trump, clowns, and wild animals as two interchangable viewing cards slip through the structure."--Vampandtramp.com (distributor's website).
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Complexities
Bea Nettles, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
perfect bound with soft cover; cover; interior pages. With each photograph, the artist recounts stories revealing the complexities of her life as a mother, artist, and professor and the balancing act it requires to play all those roles.
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Flamingo in the Dark
Bea Nettles, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
case bound in hard cover, foil stamped cover text; cover; interior pages. A series of complex layered photo montages in color.
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Mountain Dream Tarot: 78 photographic cards
Bea Nettles, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
printed cards in cardboard box with printed instruction accordion fold booklet; cover; cards. A set of 78 photographic Tarot cards.
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Seasonal Turns: four accordion books
Bea Nettles, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
4 accordion fold books, enclosed in a plastic box; cover; four small books; three accordion books; two interior spreads . The four seasons are depicted through images of nature and human interactions with it.
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A Hypothetical Analysis of the Twinkle in Stars: (as told by a child to a teacher)
Katherine Ng, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 art work : color illustration. Consists of a single sheet of paper (5 x 64 cm.) folded into a pentagonal shape (9 cm.) that stores five folded paper colored stars (1-2 cm.) permanently constructed in the same manner. "Book structure based on the wishing stars (lucky stars) from Hong Kong. Handset in Centaur, letterpress printed on Mohawk"--Colophon. Library has copy 92 of 100. Initialed by the author. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Silty Loam
Sara Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unnumbered) : illustrations "Brain Washing from Phone Towers" informational pamphlets series. Cover title. Edition of 250. Limited edition statement from artist's website, viewed May 9, 2023. Letterpress and relief printing on paper. Pamphlet stitch binding; accordion fold out; printed paper covers. "Silty Loam looks at all the different ways food can be grown in an urban environment, and why one might want to. Today, agriculture largely is practiced in isolation from the places where the majority of the population lives and works, and there is very little direct engagement of people with the land that provides the means for their survival. Rural and urban are perceived as polar opposites, in similar kinds of ways that nature and manmade are held as separate concepts. Silty Loam looks at all the different ways city residents have pushed back against this, including community gardens, community land trusts, and rooftop gardens. "-- https://www.sarahnicholls.com/portfolio/silty-loam/ "Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis. These small-scale publications combine text (handset in metal type) and image (carved in wood or linoleum) produced via obsolete technology in editioned works which are distributed at will to a chosen audience. The content of the series aims for historical interest, commemorative intent and a healthy dose of humor, and the distribution methods are based on the values of the gift economy."--Provided by artist Brown paper cover with printer's ornaments printed in patterns in blue and gold.
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Feral
Sarah Nicholls
2 unnumbered pages (1 folded) : color illustrations. "Brain washing from phone towers informational pamphlets" Series "June 2023" Letterpress and relief printed pages (one fold-out) bound with pamphlet stitch in printed paper covers. "Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis. These small-scale publications combine text (handset in metal type) and image (carved in wood or linoleum) produced via obsolete technology in editioned works which are distributed at will to a chosen audience. The content of the series aims for historical interest, commemorative intent and a healthy dose of humor, and the distribution methods are based on the values of the gift economy."--Provided by artist. Feral is the Summer 2023 informational pamphlet. It is a brief introduction to foraging in the urban context, for food, color, and fiber. What role does foraging play for city residents? What questions should you ask yourself if you are interested in foraging? Where can you forage in NYC? What can you use foraged plants for? What is the difference between a park and a commons? Edition of 250, printed letterpress from metal type and linocut relief blocks.--Artist's website.
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Flyway
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume 8 pages. "Second in a series of three about Jamaica Bay. Edition of 200. Printed letterpress from metal type and lino blocks in July & August 2017"--Colophon. Four folded sheets (24 x 30 cm) lift-up from the printed text pages to reveal large, color illustrations. "Brain Washing from Phone Towers, Informational pamphlets, Summer 2017, New York City, Sarah Nicholls, pamphleteer"--Page [4] of cover. Accordion fold binding.
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Fresh Creek
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded leaf, 20 pages . "The last pamphlet of 2019 is about: transportation networks, bicycling in the city, the Jamaica Bay Greenway, landfills, Robert Moses, how to get where you need to go, Starrett City and their seaside view, and finally, the Shirley Chisholm State Park out in East New York. It follows a bike ride that I took last fall that I particularly enjoyed."-- artists' website.
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Glasshouse
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 40 pages. ".. printed in an edition of 35 in the fall of 2016 from wood, metal, and plastic on a Vandercook Universal III housed at the Center for Book Arts, New York. Papers used are Sakamoto Heavy, Thai Kozo, and Zerkyll Ingres. Studio support for the development of the edition was also provided by Guttenberg Arts in NJ. Polymer plates were made by Boxcar Press in Syracuse, NY." -- Colophon. Limited edition of 35 copies; numbered and signed by Sarah Nicholls. Pamphlet stich binding; in two gatherings, attached to the heavy purple paper cover. Issued in a blue cloth covered clamshell case, print with title mounted to case cover. "'Glasshouse' is a limited edition artist book that looks at the history of greenhouses, a technology made to cultivate foreign plants in a controlled environment, originally in service to empire."--artist's website.
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Homesteading for the Urban Coyote
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 sheet folded to 5 pages. Edition of 250. "Fall 2018 NYC"--page [4] of cover. Letterpress and linoleum (linocut) block prints on paper folded accordion style and sewn into printed cardstock cover with pamphlet stitch.
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Intertidal
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; Brain washing from phone towers informational pamphlets. Title from cover. "Printed in an edition of 200 from linoleum blocks and handset metal type during the fall of 2017. Third in a series of three on the history, ecology, and communities around Jamaica Bay."--page [2] of cover. Continuous illustrations on each side of the folded sheet. Accordion fold binding, text hand sewn into cover. "Brain Washing from Phone Towers, Informational pamphlets, Fall 2017, New York City, Sarah Nicholls, pamphleteer"--Page 4 of cover. Library has copy no. 72, initialed by the artist.
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Make the earth say beans
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. Cover title [Edition of 250] Linoleum cut and letterpress prints on paper. Do-si-do binding, instant book format, that unfolds to reveal additional text and illustrations. Enclosed in printed, paper cover. "Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis."--Provided by artist. "Summer 2019 NYC"--back cover.
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Plant out of Place
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded leaf . Cover title. "A special publication from Brain Washing from Phone Towers Information Pamphlets"--page [4] of cover. "Spring 2019 NYC" Pamphlet stitch, interior is printed on single folded sheet. Metal type and linocut printing.
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Solastalgia
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 170 pages. "Solastalgia" is a term coined over a decade ago by Australian professor of sustainability Glenn Albrecht, which he defined as "the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediƯate assault.. a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home." He originally described this emotion as being familiar to people who lived in sacrifice zones-- lands decimated by open-pit mining, or clear-cut logging. But it is quickly becoming, in an era defined by climate change, a universal human experience.--artists' website. Printed on a risograph and a Vandercook Universal I, using metal type, pressure prints, woodcut, linocut, and polymer plates on a variety of French Paper Company papers and some glassine. Sewn boards structure, case binding. In cloth-covered slipcase.
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Still Life with Bottles, Oysters and Hooves
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded sheet : color illustrations Brain washing from phone towers informational pamphlets. Title from folder. "First in a series of three about Jamaica Bay. Edition of 200. Printed letterpress from metal type and linoleum blocks in April 2017."-colophon. Folded sheet (27 x 44 cm), printed on each side, folded twice and placed in paper folder (28 x 12 cm). "Brain Washing from Phone Towers, Informational pamphlets, Spring 2017, New York City, Sarah Nicholls, pamphleteer"--page [4] of folder.
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The Acclimatization Society
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. "The Acclimatization Society is a new limited edition pamphlet about birds that are local to New York City, their adaptations, and survival tactics. Focused on select native and invasive species in their urban habitats: the rock pigeon, red-tailed hawk, sparrows, and European starlings, the text also explores speciation--the process by which species adapt to circumstances, develop genetic mutations, and in time, evolve into new species. The title of the pamphlet references the voluntary associations in the 19th and 20th centuries that encouraged the introduction of non-native species into locations worldwide." Title from cover. "In conjunction with Avifuana: Birds & Habitat on view at Wave Hill, April 7-June 24, 2018"--Colophon. Letterpress and linoleum (linocut) block prints on paper (24 x 55 cm) folded accordion style and sewn into printed cardstock cover with pamphlet stitch. "Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis. These small-scale publications combine text (handset in metal type) and image (carved in wood or linoleum) produced via obsolete technology in editioned works which are distributed at will to a chosen audience. The content of the series aims for historical interest, commemorative intent and a healthy dose of humor, and the distribution methods are based on the values of the gift economy."--Provided by artist.
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The liquid fault line
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. "The Liquid Fault Line is the Summer 2018 Informational Pamphlet. It addresses strategic retreat from the shoreline in an age of rising sea levels. What are the costs? What if you don't want to leave your home and community? What are the various adaptation strategies and who benefits? What will happen if we don't plan ahead?" Title from cover. "Edition of 200"--From artist's website. Letterpress and linoleum (linocuts) block prints on French Paper Co. paper, folded accordion style and sewn into printed cardstock cover with pamphlet stitch. "Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis. These small-scale publications combine text (handset in metal type) and image (carved in wood or linoleum) produced via obsolete technology in editioned works which are distributed at will to a chosen audience. The content of the series aims for historical interest, commemorative intent and a healthy dose of humor, and the distribution methods are based on the values of the gift economy."--Provided by artist.
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The Morse Dry Dock Dial
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 31 x 46 cm folded to 17 x 13 cm. Cover title. Edition of 250. "The Morse Dry Dock Dial is the Spring 2020 Informational Pamphlet, taking its name from the magazine published by the Morse Dry Dock Company, my great-grandfather's employer in the early years of the twentieth century. The original publication reported on the lives and activities of their community of workers, many of which lived in the neighborhood, what was then called Bay Ridge and is now named Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This pamphlet talks about my family's history in the neighborhood, the changes in the neighborhood since then, the industrial past, the post-industrial present, how nature has adapted the waterfront left behind by industry, how nature will change the waterfront in the coming decades, and what we might do in response, among many other things. Edition of 250, letterpress and linocut on paper. There is also a virtual walking tour of the neighborhood to accompany the publication."--artist's webpage. Letter press and linoleum cut prints on paper. Single sheet folded to create 8 pages which can be unfolded to reveal more content. Bound in printed red cardstock covers with linen thread using pamphlet stitch method. "Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis. These small-scale publications combine text (handset in metal type) and image (carved in wood or linoleum) produced via obsolete technology in editioned works which are distributed at will to a chosen audience. The content of the series aims for historical interest, commemorative intent and a healthy dose of humor, and the distribution methods are based on the values of the gift economy."--Provided by artist "Funds raised from the sale of individual copies of this pamphlet will go to UPROSE. UPROSE promotes sustainability and resiliency in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood through community organizing, education, indigenous and youth leadership development, and cultural/artistic expression. The 2020 Brain Washing from Phone Towers Informational Pamphlet Series is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council."--Artist's website, viewed February 23, 2021.
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The World Turned Upside Down
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. "The World Turned Upside Down is the third Informational Pamphlet for 2016. The third pamphlet of 2016 addressed truth, fiction, the sound of type in your head, and the history of pamphleteering itself. Is the end nigh? How can one identify a witch? What is globalism? These questions are posed, but probably not answered." Woodblock and letterpress prints on French paper. Handbound in pamphlet stitch method with accordion foldout. "Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis. These small-scale publications combine text (handset in metal type) and image (carved in wood or linoleum) produced via obsolete technology in editioned works which are distributed at will to a chosen audience. The content of the series aims for historical interest, commemorative intent and a healthy dose of humor, and the distribution methods are based on the values of the gift economy."--Provided by artist. Edition of 200.
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Wipe the slate
Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded sheet. Edition of 200. "December 2015 New York City" Folded pamphlet, with text and background illustrations, printed from wood and metal type and hand carved lino blocks. Can be viewed unfolded flat or folded into accordion-style book. Sheet folds out to 32 x 47 cm, one side illustrated with woodcuts, the other with linocuts. Title printed in red letterpress, text printed in blue letterpress.
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The End: A Summing Up
Peter Norton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
72 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm + supplemental video book with video file (approx. 5 minutes) + earbuds + scorpion sculpture in case.. "The format of this project -- the book, the excised sculpture, and the scorpion theme -- were inspired by an original art work, shown below, by Robert The." (page 70 of printed book) This set was produced in an unnumbered edition of 2000. Includes scorpion sculpture that had been excised from the printed book. It is inspired by an original artwork by Robert The. Includes video book that plays when opened. Includes earbuds and volume control on inside panel. Video file demonstrates all objects from 1988-2017 in chronological order. Video player has external speaker and headphone jack (includes earbuds). Device can be charged with a mini B USB cable (not included). Includes illustrated sheet explaining contents of project. This 3-part project catalogs the complete collection of art edition gifts comissioned by the Norton family from 1988 to 2017. The limited edition artist series were meant to "celebrate the artists, many young, early in their careers and underexposed. To evangelize contemporary art. To have play value. And, perhaps, be kept in work spaces or living rooms, where visitors might encounter them and discover some contemporary art."--from introduction (page 5 of printed book)
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Domestic Science: Idioms
Nance O'Banion, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, slipcase, 50 pages. Added title-page has subtitle: Pop-up icons. "Edition of 150 copies and a deluxe edition of 15 copies"--Colophon. Printed on both sides of a continuous strip with additional leaves attached, folded accordion style and laid loose in a box. The "idioms" appear on 1 side of the strip, the "pop-up icons" on the other. Julie Chen printed the book and designed the book structure and engineered the pop-ups. Letterpress printed from handset metal type; linoleum block prints.
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Gone Fishin'
Asuka Ohsawa, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations "Written, illustrated, screen-printed, and hand-bound by Asuka Ohsawa in New York, NY, in 2019"--Colophon. "The end sheets were printed by Sun Night Editions in Oakland, CA"--Colophon. "Gone Fishin' began as ... [an] experiment to incorporate the panoramic landscape format of Japanese emaki (narrative hand scroll paintings from the 12th century) into a codex form. During the five month process of drawing and printing, however, the book morphed into a hybrid form that is part emaki, part comics, and part typographic adventure."--colophon. "Screenprinted on Rives Heavyweight paper ... Drum-leaf bound with a drop-spine cover. Edition of 20"--Artist's website. "This book project was inspired by one of my favorite works of art of all time entitled 'Kidai Shoran', an early 19th-century Japanese emaki (scroll painting) by an unknown artist. The scroll depicts a panoramic view of the busy Nihonbashi main street lined with shops and a crowd of consumers and city dwellers. My original idea was to simply incorporate the panoramic landscape format of Japanese emaki into a codex form."--Artist's website. Color illustrated endpapers and title page, in black and light blue. Cloth binding, dark blue spine, light blue on cover boards, illustration in gold on front cover. Library has copy no. 10, signed in pencil by the artist.
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Local Conditions: One Hundred Views of Mount Rainier (at least)
Chandler O'leary, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 container box, 120 card-sized prints, 1 guide (50 pages). Consists of 120 card-sized prints in a container box (20 x 26 x 19.5 cm) and a viewing box with slats for inserting the cards to create different views of Mount Rainier. The container box has three drawers, two of which contain the cards and the last containing the viewing box and a guide to the cards called "Locator key." The top of the container box is a viewing platform to hold the viewing box. The container box is inserted in a five-paneled wrapper printed on the interior with an explanation and instructions for use. Wrapper has two Japanese-style bone clasp closures. Four pictorial labels depicting Mount Rainier from the compass points are affixed to the wrapper and sides of the container box. Container box, drawers, viewing box, and wrapper are cloth-covered boards. Guide is bound Japanese-style in indigo cloth. "Text and images were letterpress printed at Springtide Press. Images and topographic map patterns are hand-drawn and watercolored"--Interior of wrapper. Title from label mounted to portfolio wrapper. "Artist book consisting of viewing box and 120 image flats, illustrated and compiled from data collected in person, on location, over the course of two years. Housed in a set of drawers with nested stab-bound book and Japanese-style outer wrapper"--Description from artist's Web site.
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Lunar Volvelle
Monica Ong, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volvelle : color illustrations ; 19 x 19 cm + 1 card (2 unnumbered pages Edition limited to 50 numbered copies, signed. Artists' book in the form of a volvelle, a chart made of concentric paper wheels. "To see the current lunar phase, begin by rotating the sun disc until the pointer rests on the desired date. Count the number of days since the last new moon or use an almanac to determine the day of the lunar cycle and move the moon disc to that number. As the moon reveals its ever-changing shape, so too does the poem that radiates from the volvelle's heart. Fear not. During the full moon, my father's mother will watch over you"--Added explanatory card. "Poetry, typesetting, and design by Monica Ong. Printing, gold foil stamping, die cutting, and assembly by Boxcar Press in Syracuse, NY. Months set in Adorn Engraved, headings and dates set in Adorn Serif © Laura Worthington."--Colophon. Issued in a silver paper envelope. Interactive book. Library has copy no. 15. Jan Baker Artists' Books Fund. RISD Alumna, MFA D+M, 2006. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.
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Grapefruit : A Book of Instructions
Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations. "First printing" Originally published in a limited edition of 500 copies by the Wunternaum Press in Tokyo in 1964. This new edition contains material from the original, and pieces and drawings done in subsequent years by Yoko Ono. Gift of Glenn Gissler.
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Sample Book
Sheryl Oppenheim, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
28 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations. Paper cover, staple binding, full color digital printing. Unlimited edition. Publisher, edition, and materials information from publisher's website. "'Sample Book' by Sheryl Oppenheim playfully explores the collision of east and west through digital collages and juxtapositions colorful marbling patterns produced in her studio. Using suminagashi and western marbling techniques, the artist creates a new visual tension between craft and contemporary art." --Small Editions NYC.
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Visa and Solo
ottoGraphic, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 24 pages. "A complex screen printed folding book inspired by the Russian Constructivist designs of the 1930.. social commentary on the perils of shopping, and the evils of the credit card."--publisher website. Edition statement from publisher's website. "The book depicts a visual narrative on supermarket shopping. It explores the effect of shopping on human relationships. Solo and Visa are the names of the protagonists as well as brand names of the products. The concertina fold can be opened in more ways than one, but page numbers help to follow the story. Otto created it in 2011 to accompany an exhibition at Bath Artists Studios, for which he designed wallpaper and signage. It is screen printed using blue and red on yellow card. On one side of the card the blue is opaque and the red transparent, on the other side the red is opaque and the blue transparent."--Information provided by the artist by email 16 September 2013.
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Peeping Tom
Radha Pandey, Eric Gjerde, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 sheet : illustrations. Title from enclosure cover. 1 sheet (40 x 14 cm) folded twice to (14 x 14 cm) in folded paper cover. "Origami tessallation designed by Eric Gjerde ; printed, illustrated & executed by Radha Pandey, fall 2012." "To fully enjoy this act of voyeurism, push each square up from its sides and pinch in the white corners."--Colophon slip laid in. Artist's Book Fund.
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59 Dreams: A Nocturnal Year
Teresa Pankratz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations. Edition of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist. "This book documents my year of dreaming: 59 portals into recalled nocturnal activities, witnessing a dream-self performing grand, heroic amd sometimes incomprehensible acts--hours and hours of accumulated living time, previously unaccounted for."--Introduction. "I wanted to make an affordable limited edition artists' book. I designed 59 Dreams: A Nocturnal Year to hold my original drawings and text--and be this book. It's custom printed and bound by Lowitz & Sons, Inc., Chicago, using Gil Sans Light on Mohawk Superfine ..."--Colophon. Perfect bound with French flaps and soft touch laminate cover. Issued in a hand-made paper slipcase. Mounted hand-printed silkscreen illustration on slipcase. Library has copy no. 109.
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Into the Night
Teresa Pankratz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations. Edition of 15 numbered copies signed by the artist. Hand-printed lithograph tunnel book. "This book was conceived, hand-rendered & bound by Teresa Pankratz -- after a year of dreaming. The 7 original, hand-drawn lithographs were processed & hand printed on Rivers BFK & Mohawk Superfine by Hoofprint Workshop Chicago's inimitable litho expert, Gabe Hoare. The handwritten silkscreened colophon was processed & hand printed by Hoofprint partner Liz Born. ..."--Colophon on back cover. Library has copy no. 3.
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Invisible labors : reviving histories of women's land work in the Blue Island Ridge communities, Chicago, Illinois
Susannah Papish, Mellissa H. Potter, Jacob Lindgren, 3Arts Artists Projects, Columbia College, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
6 pages in folded accordion book : illustrations ; 4 postcards + 1 paper insert. "Invisible Labors was printed in a risograph edition of 50 as well as a deluxe edition of 50."--Colophon "To honor the little-known contributions of Chicago's early women agricultural and cultural workers, [Susannah Papish collaborated] on a new publication entitled Invisible Labors, inspired by a recent research and garden project in the Morgan Park and Beverly neighborhoods formerly known as The Ridge. This book [weaves] together historical archives, photographs, and original new artwork that creatively interprets the crucial role that women have played in working and stewarding land in [Chicago]." -- 3arts.org/projects/invisible-labors/ Accordion fold with four signature sewn into each of the four folds. Library has copy no. 18 of the deluxe. Deluxe edition includes two sets of postcards, signed paper reproduction of back cover illustration (21 x 13 cm), and cardboard poster tube with two rolled posters. Deluxe edition contains handmade burdock paper insert . Three-color risograph. SEI
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In today's news: alpha males & women power
Kaamna Patel, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 46 pages . "Reappropriates images from print media in India to comment on patriarchy and gender roles."--colophon. Title from last page of book. "Image sources : Mumbai Samachar, Janmabhumi, Mumbai Mirror, Mid-day, Times of India, Hyderabad Times." In Todays News: Alpha Males and Women Power is a photobook by Kaamna Patel wherein she appropriates images from print media in India to comment on prevalent patriarchies and pre-determined gender roles. Using the semiotics of images, In Todays News attempts to reveal the dominant ideology of a people at a particular time in their history, while leaving room for the reader to uncover their own biases that may be informed, consciously or subconsciously, by this ideological structure.--Printed Matter.
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Bottom of the Lake = Fond du Lac
Christian Patterson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
68, 175 pages : illustrations (some color). Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac, printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with Patterson's own drawings, photographs and marginalia. Bottom of the Lake is a book within a book that carefully combines the original, found, fact-based phone book with the artist's highly subjective re-imagination of his hometown; it playfully juxtaposes different documentary forms and ways of seeing to create a deeply personal, darkly humorous other book. In addition, the experience of the book is extended beyond its pages by an interactive feature -- a telephone number attached to the book that connects users with over 100 experiences mixing field audio recordings, found archival audio and performances that re-imagine and re-create the artist's hometown. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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Unbound
Jessica Peterson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. Cover title. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. "'Unbound' was designed and produced in a single month. The typefaces are Sabon and Scala Sans. The text is letterpress-printed on handmade cotton and abaca paper."--colophon. "Unbound is a limited edition artists' book which honors the veterans of Prince Edward County's 1959 school lock out ... The book was conceived and designed by artist Jessica Peterson and recounts the closing of the public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia, from 1959 to 1964. Unbound tells this story of these events with timelines, archival evidence, and collected narratives from the veterans of the closings. Gold stars flow through each page, one star for each person whose life was permanently altered by the school closings"--Publisher's statement at the Vamp and Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on February 13, 2015. "In the fall of 1959, the public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia were closed in response to a court order to desegregate. The schools remained closed for five years. Many white children began attending a system of private schools established by the Prince Edward School Foundation. As permitted by state law, tuition for these schools was almost completely subsidized by the government. No one elected to attend the private academy for black students organized by the same group of white leaders. Approximately 4,000 children in Prince Edward County waited five years for the public school system to open, as lawsuits about the intersection of public education and race circulated through the state and federal courts ... Unbound is a tribute to the veterans of the 1959 school lock out, individuals who have carried their scars with grace for the last fifty years, with hope that they will continue to share their stories"--Introduction and Colophon. Double-sided accordion-folded pages with two fold-out signatures are letterpress printed on both sides with text, gold stars, and a timeline. Accordion is attached at either end to letterpress printed boards. Library has copy number 78.
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Gold and Silver Do Not Spoil
Robert Peters, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
70 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). Single signature stapled into a paper wrapper with cut-out in the front cover revealing part of a photograph on the title page. Offset printed text and images on the theme of money and society. Cut-out in back cover reveals text from last page. "Text compiled from the following authors: Ansel Adams, Aristotle, Samuel Beckett, Charlie Chan, Mary Douglas, Jules Henry, Robert L. Heilbroner, Ann Landers, Claude Levi Strauss, John Locke, Judith Martin, Karl Marx, Octavio Paz, John Ruskin, George Simmel, Herbert Spencer, Abigail Van Buren, Vtgoysky, Ludwig Wittgenstein and others"--Colophon. "This book was produced by Jim Snitzer ... at the University of Iowa's Offset Workshop."--colophon. Signed on the title page by the author. 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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Abracadabra: an homage to N.H. Werkman
Werner Pfeiffer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
2 dimensional flexagons and corresponding loose plates, enclosed in a four sided, cloth covered shaped portfolio; cover; various elements; detail; flat view of flexagon structure; detail. A tribute to the life and work of N.H. Werkman, noted German Graphic Designer. As Werkman playfully used text and letter forms as image, the flexagons revolve to reconfigure each composition.
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Alphabetica II: explorations around the alphabet by senior design students at Pratt Institute in New York
Werner Pfeiffer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
French fold pages hand sewn and glued, with paper cover; cover; interior spreads and title page. 12 students in Pfeiffer's class at Pratt Institute created this digital alphabet book.
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B
Werner Pfeiffer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion fold, machine sewn, volvelle, match book structure, folded broadsides, all enclosed in a hinged plastic box with an elastic cord and plastic bead closure; cover; interior pages and spreads; four small books. Sampling of book works made by 9 Pratt Institute students in Pfeiffer's class, featuring the historical, culinary, ethnic, natural, and cultural diversity of Brooklyn.
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Pickings
Werner Pfeiffer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
scroll, machine stitched French fold pages, cards in envelope, shredded book pages, kaleidoscope structure, 4 sided fold out accordions, all housed in a brown paper bag; exterior (bag); colophon; first opening; contents of bag; . 9 artists' books made by students of Werner Pfeiffer as part of an exhibition celebrating 50 years of book arts at Pratt Institute.
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ZiPo : an exploration of language in unusual juxtapositions
Werner Pfeiffer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 case. Alternate Titles: Wooden Clouds; Woo_den\c·loud}s Poems. Title from box cover. Edition limited to 50 numbered and signed copies. "Of the infinite number of possible combinations of 'Wooden Clouds' fifty variations have been selected to correspond with the number of editioned books as shown in the samples here. The composition with the red marker [on inside bottom of case] is the dedicated arrangement for this copy."--Colophon, verso. Red and orange cloth case with front panels that close with a central zipper. Laid into case: 3 unfolded sheets (title page, preface, colophon) and 12 panels, each panel with words printed in red and black and with zippers along the two side edges allowing panels to be variously connected to form one sheet. "Printed in letterpress on a Vandercook SP 20. Type: Palatino and 10 line Narrow Antique Wood Type. Paper: Mohawk Superfine, white, 100 lb cover."--Colophon. "ZiPo is short for zipper poem."--Preface. Issued in two blue half-slipcases. Accordion binding variation with zippers at each fold.
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Blizzard Book
Virginia Phelps, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Multi-section slip case. Publication information from 23 Sandy website. Edition of 3. "Blizzard Book is a nod to the well-known book structure created by Hedi Kyle, so named because she created the structure during a blizzard. This Blizzard Book is focused on snow and wind. Six personal stories about the artist's experiences with blizzard conditions accompany booklets containing moveable structures which depict and explain the six basic types of snow identified by the International Commission on Snow and Ice in the early 1950's. Each type of snow is created by specific atmospheric conditions that are present when water droplets freeze and result in radically different crystal shapes. The personal stories are a walk down memory lane from days when the artist lived in colder parts of the United States. At least three of the various structures incorporated into this book are attributed to Hedi Kyle. The whole book fans into the shape of a snowflake and the text is read through frosted windows."-- 23 Sandy website (accessed October 23, 2018). Structures include: multi-section slip case, flag book, fishbone fold, Turkish map fold, double-inverted concertina. Made with Mohachi, Nyodo and Arches papers with Hollytex, Tyvek, & acetate.
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A Humument : A Treated Victorian Novel
Thomas Phillips, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
367 pages : color illustrations "In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page, by painting, collage or cut-up techniques, to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junk shop on Peckham Rye, south London. It was A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock. First published in 1973, A Humument--as Phillips titled his altered book--quickly established itself as a cult classic. Since then, Phillips has been working towards a complete revision of the original A Humument, replacing pages in successive editions. This process is now finished. This final edition presents, for the first time, an entirely revised and complete version of A Humument and brings to a close half a century of artistic endeavor"--Front jacket flap. A revised version of an altered book created by Tom Phillips, using a copy of William Hurrell Mallock's novel "A human document". Case bound in light brown cloth-covered boards with blue and purple headbands. Title stamped in white on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Includes "Notes on A humument" by Tom Phillips on 14 unnumbered pages following the text. Previous edition: 2012. Designed by Alice Wood. Gift of the RISD Museum. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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A Humument
Tom Phillips, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
367 pages : color illus. ; 18 cm. "After its first publication in book form in 1980, 'A Humument' rapidly became a cult classic. This new revised edition incorporates over fifty entirely new pages."--inside front cover. Gift of the RISD Museum. "A Humument has been a work in progress since 1966 when artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version. The book he found was an 1892 Victorian obscurity A Human Document by W.H. Mallock and Phillips transformed it into A Humument. The first version was printed by the Tetrad press in 1973, and Phillips has continued to transform it, revise it and develop it ever since." -- Artist website (https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/humument). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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Snake
Maria G. Pisano, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
tunnel book variation with parallel concertina sides, enclosed in a printed wrapper; cover; accordion, folded out; colophon. A long, narrow tunnel book unfolds like a slithering snake.
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Change = anything can happen next!
Bob Pliny, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 27 pages. Publication information from 23 Sandy Gallery website. "A meditation upon the nature of change. Change is everywhere and always. It is the ceaseless motion of things continually being transforming into other things."--23 Sandy Gallery website. Text and illustrations were handpainted using graphite and colored pencil, acrylics, photo copies and composition gold leaf. Layers of recycled book pages and wallpaper. Altered book, re-used hardcover book binding. Unique artists' book. Accordion fold, attached to back cover. Text extends out to 148.5 inches.
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Black Joy Archive. Vol. ii, Spring '22
Zoë Pulley, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
141 pages : illustrations, portraits "'black joy archive' began in May of 2020 in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor & Ahmaud Arbery. Amidst a worldwide pandemic, Black individuals were forced to cope, reckon and process trauma inflicted time-and-time again by the racial epidemic this country has battled and protected for centuries."--cover. For more: www.blackjoyarchive.com "edition of 50, designed by zoë pulley, risograph printed by secret riso club, cover letterpressed by dwri ; typeset in dapifer, halyard & format" "27 contributors"--cover. Plastic spiral binding. Book is accompanied by a canvas bag with "bja, vol. ii", printed in green. Also two bja stickers inside bag. RISD GD MFA student.
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Instant Books
Purgatory Pie Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
5 pamphlets : illustrations. Collection title from slipcase. A collection of five previously published "instabook" pamphlets. Each pamphlet autographed/ individually numbered in a limited edition. High anxiety/Team evil (2004) -- Brains & spines (2005) -- Enclosure exposure: data protection patterning (2007) -- Box (2008) -- Join the art party of the U.S.A. (2011). Library has Instant Books No 36.
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An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations
KameelahJanan Rasheed, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
90 unnumbered pages : illustrations Cover title. Edition of 150. "Bright pink and gritty, An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations serves as a visual A-Z of dissonant experiences, ranging from Cumulative Caskets to Weaponized Watermelon. The pink-speckled texture paired with crude, black cut-out letters enforces a distinctly D-I-Y feel, with the textual centerpieces serving nonsense literature in a brief and digestible form."-- Printed Matter, Inc., viewed December 9, 2020 Pink coated wire spiral binding. Risograph printed.
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No New Theories
KameelahJanan Rasheed, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
256 unnumbered pages : chiefly black and white illustrations First edition. "Interview by Jessica Lynne"--Colophon "1000 copies"--Colophon "No New Theories builds on Kameelah Janan Rasheed's accretive and associative installation work, bringing together xerox abstractions, poetic text fragments, and found as well as original photography to explore learning and unlearning as a spiritual, socio-political, ecological, and cognitive process. With No New Theories Rasheed freely assembles her own writing, autocorrect algorithms, and Oulipian poems (short texts generated with the help of imposed constraints) alongside visuals drawn from her personal image archive, pop culture, zoological journals, quranic verses, and other sources. The work gathers these threads with an emphasis on the processes of revision and improvisation as she considers the entropic potential of meaning in place of fixed definitions. At the heart of No New Theories is an expansive interview between Rasheed and Jessica Lynne, co-founder of the art criticism journal ARTS. BLACK. The conversation attempts to document their intellectual partnership, constructed through a layering process by which the original exchange is reworked and expanded with annotations, citations, and excerpted texts from writers Samuel R. Delany, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emily Dickinson, and others. Rasheed and Lynne take on questions of epistemology and pedagogy, the nature of research, knowledge-acquisition, as well as patience and fatigue. Building on the notion of the 'organic archive' -- both as a fictional organizing framework and as a score for possible experiences -- the two consider various historical, sociological, and cultural facets of Americana, proposing a multi-directional discourse around the wide permutations of Black experience. The book's title -- No New Theories -- locates Blackness as a multivalent and porous experience that cannot and should not be neatly theorized"-- provided by publisher, Printed Matter, Inc. Interview by Jessica Lynne (pages 140-160). Offset printed with thermography bookmark and screenprinted cover. Sewn binding.
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Changing Face, Saving Face
Josephine Ren, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
6 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations. Title from front and back cover. "Designed, printed, and bound by Josephine Ren at the Scripps College Press for Art135: Typography and Book Arts, Fall 2017, taught by Tia Blassingame. Accordion fold, Garamond, linoleum-cut blocks, BFK Rives & Hahnemueler paper, Vandercook."--Colophon. "Inspired by love for my culture and the immigrant & Chinese American experience."--Colophon. Edition of 15 signed and numbered copies. Pages [2]-[5] each have a single illustration of a mask which can be removed to reveal printed text. Library has copy no. 11. Instructor is RISD Alumna. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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One Night
John Risseeuw, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
instant book, pamphlet stitch cover; cover; interior spreads. Sounds are experienced through nonsensical words, using type size and color to convey intensity.
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Roadkill
John Risseeuw, John Nolt, Beauvais Lyons, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[12], [8] pages : color illus. Fictional text on accordion folded pages with factual notes in booklet attached to accordion pages. "Roadkill was created during a collaboration between John Risseeuw, John Nolt, and Beauvais Lyons in the Spring of 2001 in the University of Tennessee School of Art printmaking studios... Lithography, screenprint, and letterpress were printed on Rives heavyweight text paper and Rives BFK cover."--Colophon. Edition of 50. Library has copy number 22. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund.
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Art Rite, Vol. 10
Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk, Joshua Cohn, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Vol. 10 : illustrations. Cover art: Joseph Beuys. 44 pgs.
Vol. 10: Guest editor, John Howell. Cover by Joseph Beuys. This special issue on performance includes performance photo documentation, and contributions from David Antin, Guerrilla Art Action Group, John Howell, Lucy Lippard, Walter Robinson, Diego Cortez and others. Some issues also have a distinctive title. – Printed Matter, Inc. Editor: Edit deAk ; Photo editor: Yuri. Co-founded and edited by Walter Robinson. No. 2 cover: William Wegman ; No. 7 cover: Vito Acconci ; No. 8 cover: Pat Steir ; No. 10 cover: Joseph Beuys ; Nos. 11-12 cover: Ed Ruscha ; No. 14 cover: Carl Andre. Library has: nos. 2, 7-12 & 14 (special issue on Artists' books) No. 9 Gift of Janice Woo, California College of the Arts. No. 2, 7, 8, 10 gift of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Library.
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Art Rite, Vol. 14
Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk, Joshua Cohn, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Vol. 14 : illustrations. Cover art: Carle Andre. 77 pgs.
Vol. 14: The fourteenth issue of Walter Robinson and Edit deAk’s Art-Rite compiles unedited responses to the question “Why are you attracted to artists’ books? What are the best potentials and the basic difficulties concerning this art form?” The answers, from artists like John Baldessari, Daniel Buren, Alan Kaprow, Adrian Piper, Douglas Huebler, Richard Tuttle, et al. assert the relevance of artists’ books and celebrate their success. – Printed Matter, Inc. Some issues also have a distinctive title. Editor: Edit deAk ; Photo editor: Yuri. Co-founded and edited by Walter Robinson. No. 2 cover: William Wegman ; No. 7 cover: Vito Acconci ; No. 8 cover: Pat Steir ; No. 10 cover: Joseph Beuys ; Nos. 11-12 cover: Ed Ruscha ; No. 14 cover: Carl Andre. Library has: nos. 2, 7-12 & 14 (special issue on Artists' books) No. 9 Gift of Janice Woo, California College of the Arts. No. 2, 7, 8, 10 gift of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Library.
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Art Rite, Vol. 7
Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk, Joshua Cohn, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Vol. 7 : illustrations. Cover art: Vito Acconci. 32 pgs.
Vol. 2: Articles on Max Kozloff, Yvonne Rainer and a centerfold spread on erotic art. – Printed Matter, Inc. Some issues also have a distinctive title. Editor: Edit deAk ; Photo editor: Yuri. Co-founded and edited by Walter Robinson. No. 2 cover: William Wegman ; No. 7 cover: Vito Acconci ; No. 8 cover: Pat Steir ; No. 10 cover: Joseph Beuys ; Nos. 11-12 cover: Ed Ruscha ; No. 14 cover: Carl Andre. Library has: nos. 2, 7-12 & 14 (special issue on Artists' books) No. 9 Gift of Janice Woo, California College of the Arts. No. 2, 7, 8, 10 gift of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Library.
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Art Rite, Vol. 8
Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk, Joshua Cohn, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Vol. 8 : illustrations. Cover Art: Pat Steir. 32 pgs.
Vol. 7: Anna Canepa was the guest editor for this special video issue of Art-Rite. Cover by Vito Acconci with artists’ statements and other contributions on video art by Acconci, Antin, Baldessari, Jonas, Kaprow, Oppenheim, Serra, Iimura, Paik, Wilke and many others. Some issues also have a distinctive title. – Printed Matter, Inc. Editor: Edit deAk ; Photo editor: Yuri. Co-founded and edited by Walter Robinson. No. 2 cover: William Wegman ; No. 7 cover: Vito Acconci ; No. 8 cover: Pat Steir ; No. 10 cover: Joseph Beuys ; Nos. 11-12 cover: Ed Ruscha ; No. 14 cover: Carl Andre. Library has: nos. 2, 7-12 & 14 (special issue on Artists' books) No. 9 Gift of Janice Woo, California College of the Arts. No. 2, 7, 8, 10 gift of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Library.
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Vasilisa and the Witch's fire
Joanna Robson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 4 pages. Title from cardboard slipcase cover. Pattern cloth over cover boards. Lasercut silhouette illustrations, with pages that fold out concertina style. In paper box, 14 x 14 x 2 cm. Certificate of authenticity ([6] pages ; illustrations ; 10 x 10 cm) includes instructions on how to display the book. "A papercut re-telling of Vasilisa the Beautiful's flight from the hut of Baba Yaga the Witch"--Certificate of authenticity. "Book no. 16 of 30 was completed by Joanna Robson in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on 11/1/2019"--Certificate of authenticity.
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I Desire You Would Remember the Ladies
Vanessa Nieto Romero, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 8 folded sheets of muslim fabric each containing one booklet. Title from cover and colophon. Edition of ten copies, numbered and signed by the artist. "The contemplative action of folding, unfolding and revealing is evoked in this book as a way to praise and remember the labor of immigrant women and how these historical facts resonate in our contemporary political arena. The texts are letterpressed printed, using polymer plates, and the photographs are laser printed on Washi Natural heavy weight of 80 g/m2. The covers are made with muslim fabric, which was used for the sac pillows in the installation. The sections are stitche and bound by hand. 'I Desire You Would Remember the Ladies' was made possible with a Graduate Studies Project Grant, awarded by Graduate Studies from the Rhode Island School of Design. This piece was printed and bound by Vanessa Nieto Romero, in collaboration with Cesar Faustino in an edition of 10 artist books. Summer of 2017. Providence, Rhode Island." --Colophon. Eight folded sheets of muslim fabric, sewn together as signatures. Inside each fold is a 15 x 15 cm paper leaf or booklet with printed text and illustrations. The signatures are laid into a tri-fold cover (18 x 64 cm) "This artist book includes documentation of the site specific installation 'I Desire You Would Remember the Ladies'.. During the fall of 2016, this installation was part of the exhibition 'Fort Adams: Drawing Parallels, Listening for Echoes;' a collaboration between Fort Adams State Park and the Rhode Island School of Design in Newport, RI."-- inside back cover.
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Old Address Book
Barbara Rosenthal, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
48 unnumbered pages. Cover title. "March 1, 1985"--page [4] of cover. At head of back cover: list of four other books by B. Rosenthal. Photocopy of the author's old address book. Stapled. Black & white printing. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Archipelago
Richard Rose, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
24 unnumbered pages. Cover title. Editor, Philip C. Rose ; Design, PopKitchen, Inc. Grandpa vs. Slinky -- Il Turista -- Eye lines -- Manna -- B[or]n -- Whack-a-mole -- The Indelible shrinking man -- Chordata -- Projection -- Brother's keeper -- At eighty. Collection of concrete poems. Letterpress printing, red and black. Typeface, Legacy Serif. Pop-it note mounted inside backcover, to Jan from the author. RISD Faculty. Gift of Jan Baker.