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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Bok 3b und Bok 3d : Rekonstruktion der im Verlag "Forlag ed." Reykjavík 1961 erschienenen Bücher
Dieter Roth, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 550 pages. Gesammelte Werke / Dieter Roth ; Bd. 7
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Daily mirror : variante der als 'Quadratbuch' bel de Jong in Hilversum 1961 erschienen Mappe
Dieter Roth, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
462 pages : chiefly ill. (some color) ; 23 cm. "Vorwort zur ersten ausgabe (aus einem brief von dieter rot an den herausgeber Pieter Brattinga)"--page preceding p. 1. / "Foreword to the first edition (from a letter from Dieter Rot to the editor Pieter Brattinga)" - page preceding p. 1.
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Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events
Jerome Rothenberg, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
14 pages. A Great Bear Pamphlet; no. 6. Cover title. Includes bibliographical references. Paper wrappers, stapled. Gift of Estera Milman, RISD Class of 1970. Estera Milman (RISD BFA Painting/Printmaking and Film, 1970) scholar of post-World War II avant-garde art. Founded Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art (ATCA) at the University of Iowa, 1982, and served as its director until 2000. She is the author of many books, articles, interviews, and exhibition catalogs on Fluxus and No!art. In December 2018 she donated a selection books from her library to the Fleet Library at RISD. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Abstract Browsing
Rafaël Rozendaal, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations "Abstract Browsing is a project that consists of both software and physical objects. The browser plugin is a free software that anyone can install. When you turn it on, you can surf the web but all web content is reduced to colored rectangles. It shows you the skeleton of the web. It's like seeing an X-ray of a building, showing the structural elements. Web pages are built of many smaller elements, information is organized and categorized. Text, images, tables, things we use every day but are not aware of. I'm interested how our eyes move across the screen, how websites adapt, learn from your behavior, and change over time. Optimized to grab your attention, to never get boring, to tempt you to click and click and never leave. Websites are constantly maximizing their efficiency, separate from aesthetic concerns. Websites learn from users by trial and error. Technology asks new questions about composition. I'm looking for unusual compositions. Anti-compositions, unhuman compositions, compositions that humans would not have created on their own."--Www.newrafael.com/texts. Gift of Paul Soulellis, RISD Faculty.
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Every building on the sunset strip
Edward Ruscha, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume unpaged.
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Twentysix gasoline stations
Edward Ruscha, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 45 pages. "First edition, 1963, 400 numbered copies; Second edition, 1967, 500 unnumbered copies; Third edition, 1969, 3000 unnumbered copies; The Cunningham Press, Alhambra, California."--Title-page verso.
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Distinctly Blurred: Words of Women Bookmakers
Jenny Sapora, Ture Bug Press, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[32] pages : illus. . Quotations from women bookmakers with annotations by J. Sapora. "Caslon 471 and Della Robia handset; author's illustrations and handwritings reproduced from a combination of woodcuts and photopolymer plates; text paper handmade by the author .. from rag and recycled poetry, then handstitched into Mohawk and Fabriano covers; 120 copies printed by J. Sapora"--Colophon. Library has copy no. 24 signed and numbered by the author.
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Until Death Do Us Part
Thomas Sauvin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[100] pages : chiefly color illustrations. "Published ... in a second edition of 2000 China, September 2015."--colophon. "Until Death Do Us Part focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness. This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand. These photos come from the Beijing Silvermine project, an archive of half a million negatives salvaged over the years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing." - Publisher's website. Text in Chinese and English. First edition of 1000 copies. Signed on page [3] of the cover by the author. Gold leaf on edges of the text. Book is housed in a paper cigarette box. Cover of the text is a color reproduction of cigarettes.
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Auto Communication
Miriam Schaer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
concertina fold spine with pamphlet sewn signatures, bound in paper covered boards, housed in a cloth covered clamshell box; book and box decorated with plastic toy trucks; box cover; cover; interior spreads; detail. Assorted bits of paper signs, pamphlets, business cards, flyers and other debris found on the streets of Manhattan are collaged to communicate street life in a busy city.
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Sylvæ: fifty specimens printed directly from the wood with historical anecdotes & observations
Gaylord Schanilec, Ben Verhoeven, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
case bound with fold-out pages, bound in oak cover boards with leather spine and foil stamped spine label; cover; interior pages and spreads. Fifty specimens of timber trees on the farm property of Gaylord Shanilec are printed in full color woodcuts. Anecdotes about the making of the book, the trees, and the neighbors give personality to each tree sample. Ben Verhoeven is RISD alumnus.
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How to Talk About Art
Miriam Schenitzer, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[22] pages : illus. Printed on double leaves. Printed cloth cover. Printing method: Offset, die cut.
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Denial
Wilber Chip Schilling, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet stitch; cover; interior pages and spreads. Various definitions of "denial" provide a broader understanding of the phenomenon of Elvis sightings.
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Reminder: an open book test
Wilber Chip Schilling, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion fold with 2 slipcases, one of which looks like the top of a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. Cover; interior pages, accordions, folded out; detail. Self-guided test to determine personality through color with an underlying suggestion that smoking addiction can be predicted based on psychological testing.
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Where do we start?
Wilber Chip Schilling, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
maze book accordion variation with fold-out flaps, enclosed in a cloth covered portfolio with sleeves for CD's and housed in a cloth covered slipcase with foil stamped title; cover; title page; interior spreads . With drawings, photos and anecdotes, 2 men describe how they obtained an education despite the pitfalls of the educational institutions of their youth. Full stories are recorded on acompanying CD's.
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The End of the Wasp Season
Erin K. Schmidt, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 artists' book. Edition of three numbered and signed copies. Title, artist's name, edition statement, and artist's email address written in pencil on paper board which attaches the cover boards in place. Publication date from artist's invoice. "The title of this work is taken from the title of the book 'the end of wasp season' which has been altered into the form of a wasp nest. Nine small whirlwind bound books are nestled into the brood cells, tucked away like larvae. Within the brood cells images of wasps have been rubber stamped in social groupings, but their numbers decrease leaving very few wasps in the cells at the end of the book. The nine small books address the issue of pesticide use. The first page of each book incites an immediate visceral response to a wasp encounter. The second and third pages consider prenatal exposure to a common household pesticide synergist, piperonyl butoxide, and its harmful effects on neurodevelopment as discussed in studies published in the Journal of American Academy of Pediatrics and Environmental Health Perspectives."--Artists' statement. "The imagery used in the nine small books are manipulated ultrasound images of both of my children."--Artists' statement. Library has copy no. 1. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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Reminders to myself : to act from the contradictions of how I feel about my vaccination, and, society in transition
Rachael Schragis, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 poster. "Spring 2021 event diagram" A series of post-it notes with contradictions related to the COVID-19 Pandemic and vaccination. Offset printing.
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The Declaration of the Occupation of NYC
Rachael Schragis, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 poster. "As agreed upon by the General Assembly of NYC, on September 21st 2011, drafted by the call to action working group" Offset printing. Gift of Angela DiVeglia.
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Understanding antisemitism : an analysis-in-process by Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ): a grassroots, membership-based organization in New York City
Rachael Schragis, Rebecca Katz, Erin Brownstein McElroy, Audrey Sasson, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 poster : illustrations (black & white and color). Starting in 2018 and into early 2021, more than 70 JFREJ members participated in a cultural organizing project to understand, struggle against, and imagine a world free from antisemitism. JFREJ members and artists Rachel Schragis and Rebecca Katz facilitated this process, which involved JFREJers of all ages and backgrounds, including members of our Mizrahi & Sephardi, Jews of Color, and Poor & Working Class Caucuses. A 40-page pamphlet on the subject by JFREJ was produced to accompany the poster. Library does not have the pamphlet. Offset printing. Flowchart. Gift of Angela DiVeglia.
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your name is safe, you can rest now
Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
5 folding panels . "Your Name is Safe, You Can Rest Now is a letter to my great-uncle Rikio who died in WWII explaining the impact that his death had on our family for generations. Every household in my family had this photograph of his funeral on their butsudan, a Buddhist altar. Rikio fought in the US Army Infantry 442nd Regiment which consisted almost entirely of second-generation Japanese Americans, and holds the record of being the most highly decorated unit in US Military History. While Rikio and others in Hawaii fought for the US, our family members on the mainland were held in internment camps. Rikio was the youngest of my grandmother's siblings, and was killed in action in 1944 at the age of 20"--accompanying materials.
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Tidal Poems
Anne Schwartzburg, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[24] pages : color ill. . "... painted with inks, watercolors & acrylics on Stonehenge cream paper ... in an edition of 60 this one being copy number 24."--Colophon. Signed by the artists.
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Divisive and Diverse: A U.S. Voting Story
Scripps College Students, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 sheet : illustrations. Cover title. "Fall 2016." Edition of 80 copies. Creators: Vanessa Hayes, Eleanor Lynch, Samantha Nuno, Marissa Schow, Stephanie Sun, and Caroline Thomas. "Under the supervision of Professor Blassingame, the book was printed on Rives Lightweight paper and the book's container was printed on Langdell Handmade paper. it was letterpress printed using handset metal and wood type. The metal typefaces include Ehrhardt and Ehrhardt Italic, Gill Sans Small Caps, Fournier, Univers and wood type"--Colophon. Hedi Kyle fishbone fold book structure. An artists' book exploring voting rights and identity politics. "We created this book with the intent of shedding light on the history of voting rights within the United States. Our goal was to share voices not often heard within the mainstream and to build a more nuanced conversation then was offered during the polarizing 2016 election period." Library has copy no. 69. Instructor Tia Blassingame is RISD Alumna. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Baldio
I.E. S̆egota, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
20 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations Title from cover. "Dibugado por I.E. S̆egota para Concordia, MX, en la ciudad de Qro., en el año de la pandemia."--back cover. Signed in pencil by the artist on back cover. Accordion book, front side has one continuos illustration screen printed in green, orange, and purple on beige paper. Illustration on verso in blue on beige.
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1 in 3: Women have been slapped, pushed, or shoved
Jaime Shafer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume unpaged. Cover title. Limited edition of 25 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Printed at the Black Rock Press using a Vandercook Universal I and inkjet pigments. Letterpress printed from metal type and polymer plates on Stonehenge paper. Inkjet printed on Hahnemuhle Duo and Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art paper. Found and altered photographs"--Colophon. Hedi Kyle's flag book structure, bound in paper over boards. An outline of a woman's head is printed on the back of the accordion spine. Text letterpress printed in red and grey on flags and cover boards. Flags feature inset altered portraits of female victims of domestic violence. Issued in a blue cloth over boards slipcase. "1 in 3 was inspired by recent media attention focusing on domestic violence. Creating this piece proved more difficult than I expected. It forced me to reflect on my own experiences with domestic abuse. Those who have never been in an abusive relationship usually ask, 'Why did s/he stay?' Unless you have experienced it, it is hard to understand. This is not an all-inclusive representation of domestic abuse. However, I hope that the content of this book helps the viewer to better understand the victim's point of view and the lack of resources that often hinder a victim's ability to escape the situation.. The narrative on the covers and end sheets were inspired by personal experience, discussion with others who have experienced abuse, and victims' testimonies"--Colophon.
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Three Cages
Joyce Cutler Shaw, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion variation in triangular shape, with folded paper wrapper; book enclosed in wrapper; partially unfolded wrapper with closed book; book closed; page spread; partially unfolded; colophon. number 12 in an edition of 250, signed by the artist, paper engineering by Allwyn Bookbinder
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Geography of Lost
Emma Sheffield, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
12 leaves (interleaved) : color illustrations. "Edition of 18"--Colophon Unryu white paper and Strathmore tracing paper pages with Haijiro cover paper. Digital images and letterpress text on two overlapping pamphlet stitched signatures in a trifold cover inside a Khadi paper phase box enclosure. Letterpress printing completed at a residency at In Cahoots, Petaluma, CA. "The text is a poem inspired by an article on Lost Person Behavior, the science of knowing where to search for someone based on which of 41 profiles applies. Implicit in my poem are hard things, feeling forlorn when contemplating a family history of depression, substance abuse, dementia, suicide and other mostly unseen manifestations of hopelessness. There are so many ways to be lost - the thesaurus entry lists over 60 words for lost including disoriented and vanished. Pulling apart and fracturing my poem's lines set them adrift amid images of my aerial snow-covered landscapes photographed on a winter flight and overlaid with askew grids."--Colophon Pamphlet stitch. Library has copy no. 5.
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REF
Shift-Lab, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 container, 15 parts. "REF is an investigation into the erosion of the physical reference area of the library, and the fundamental shift taking place in the way we ask and answer questions. This project was produced by the members of Shift-lab: Katie Baldwin, Denise Bookwalter, Sarah Bryant, Macy Chadwick, and Tricia Treacy. Artists worked individually and collaboratively to produce elements inspired by the traditional components of a physical reference section: Almanac, Atlas, Bibliography, Biographical Dictionary, Chronology, Concordance, Dictionary, Directory, Encyclopedia, Gazetteer, Guidebook, Handbook, Index, Manual, and Yearbook."--Big Jump Press. "As we designed our responses to traditional elements of the reference section, we used several dates as loose organizational principles to tie our work together: 1963: The publication of Automation and the Library of Congress -- 1991: The Gore Bill, which led to the World Wide Web as we know it today -- 1993: the publication of Planning Second Generation Automated Library Systems and the release of Mosaic, the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web -- 2001: the arrival of Wikipedia."--Shift-lab. REF components are housed together in a custom archival document flip top box with an ascending accordion folder structure. Printing methods include letterpress, risograph, screenprinting, laser printing, and digital printing. Binding formats include concertina, spiral bound, document binder, pamplet, double pamplet, folder, paper envelope.
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Shift
Shift-Lab, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 box, contains 5 books and 3 folded cards. Each artist created a small book of identical dimensions to reflect her interpretation of the word "SHIFT". Edition limited to 20 copies, numbered and signed by artists. Five books issued in drop-lid box, covered in grey fabric with paper title label and magnetic closure. CONTENTS 1825-1862-1918 (Shift) / K. Baldwin -- Shape shifting / Denise Bookwalter -- Shift in position / Sarah Bryant -- A shift in perspective / Macy Chadwick -- Redirecting shift / Tricia Treacy.
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Konglish
Jana Sim, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Limited edition of 32 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "This book is about the differences between how language is observed and interpreted. My focus is on three languages which are Korean, English and Konglish (Korean + English) ... There are short, humorous stories in each language that I have personally experienced based on the differences of the languages and how they function in different cultures ... Two laser cut volvelles ... have mixture of both Korean and English alphabets. The book will be very different depending on what language you are able to speak ... If you understand both languages, you will be able to compare the two sides, understand both sides of my stories"--Artist's statement at the 23 Sandy Gallery Booksellers' website, viewed on April 20, 2015. "'Konglish' is an artist book about living with two languages, by Jana Sim. Images and text were written, printed, and bound in this unique structure, a combining of two existing forms: the Drum Leaf and Dos-a-Dos, by the artist at Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book & Paper Arts 2010. The images and text were letterpress printed using polymer plates on Somerset white velvet, except for the images of Korean snacks, which were inkjet printed. The volvelles were laser cut on Canford Royal Blue paper and Grafix Clear-Lay Red acetate"--Colophon. Letterpress printed in black, red, and blue, with Korean and English text alternately blind-impressed without ink. Issued in a three-panel purple cloth over boards wrapper with string and button closure and the artist's name debossed on the lower right panel. English and Korean.
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Language Möbius
Jana Sim, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 sheet in box. Title from container. Edition of 15. "Language Möbius is about my speaking process. The loop in my brain goes like this: hearing English, thinking in Korean, translating, then speaking in English. Language Möbius can be cut in half through the center twice. With each cut the sentences of the layers are cut in half, making them illegible. The final two rings lined together symbolize the two language tangled up in my head while in translation, which is why the sentences can't be read. The Möbius strip was letterpress printed using polymer plates on Somerset at Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book and Paper Arts 2011."--Colophon. Strip laid in a turquoise linen fabric covered open top box. Red paper on the bottom of the box. A plastic sleeve encloses the box. Colophon mounted inside the sleeve. Red paper with mounted title slip on the top of the sleeve. Text on strip letterpress printed in blue, gray, and red. Library has copy 13.
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In And Around The House
Laurie Simmons, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[16] leaves : all ill. "Designed by Yolanda Cuomo"--Inside front cove c. 2 Gift of CEPA Gallery.
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Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies
Taryn Simon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
606 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. Continuation of: Taryn Simon: Birds of the West Indies, ISBN: 9783775736633. Contents: Wonderful machines / Nico Baumbach -- Field guide to birds of the West Indies -- James Bond's correspondence, Awards, and Artifacts; Maps and Publications -- A speck of dust in that black hole / Daniel Baumann. Includes bibliographical references.
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Yes, I Answered You Last Night
Rosemary V. Simpkins, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 accordion pleated volume (16 pages) : illustrations. "Elizabeth Barrett Moulton Barrett and Robert Browning, one hundred fiftieth wedding anniversary celebration, 1846 12th September 1996"--Outer envelope. ""Yes, I answered you last night ...", from Elizabeth Barrett's lyric 'The Lady's Yes', captures the essence of two people's dreams of a happy future life together in spite of very conservative traditions and strong family opposition"--page [1] of accordion pleated text in folded postcard. "The semi-transparent printed sleeve portrays the imposing facade of the St. Marylebone Parish Church. The secret book slips out of the sleeve, revealing eight righs on either side (eight being a symbol of two rings, the infinity of the circle, and two lives linked forever). The rings on the right are Robert Browning's, and contain excerpts from the Marriage liturgy. The rings on the left are Elizabeth Barrett's, who was standing on her future husband's left. The first rings on both sides contain information taken directly from the Marriage record, followed by excerpts from Elizabeth Barrett's Sonnets from the Portuguese, numbers XXII, XXIV, XXV and XLIV. ... As the rings part, they lead the way to the intimate area of the altar, as a couple approach it"--page [1] of accordion pleated text in folded postcard. "First edition no. 109/150"--Cover page [4]. Postcard comes in envelope and book comes in semi-transparent printed sleeve portraying the facade of the St. Marylebone Parish Church, both of which are contained in a larger envelope (16 x 20 cm.).
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Color of Day, Sound of Night
García Sinclair, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
22 unnumbered pages Edition of 20 numbered and signed copies. Poems. Digital printing, perfect bound. Library has copy 9, signed and dated by the author. Purchased at Unbound 2018. RISD Alumna, BFA Sculpture 2015, MFA Printmaking, 2018. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.
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It Wasn't Little Rock
Clarissa Sligh, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) . Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) decision. "This softcover edition of 150 books was printed on an Indigo Digital Press"--Colophon. Author describes her family's experience with racism and school integration. As a high school student, the author was named lead plaintiff in Clarissa Thompson et al. v. County School Board of Arlington County (June 1956), a school desegregation class action suit filed in U.S. District Court. Metal spiral binding. Signed by the author on the title-page. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Transforming Hate: an artists' book
Clarissa Sligh, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
108 unnumbered pages (including covers) : color illustrations. "March 2016"--Colophon. Limited edition of 1000 copies. The Montana Human Rights Network asked artists to make artwork that would "incorporate, respond to, or transform" pages from "The White Man's Bible", a white supremacist book.--from page [2]. PROVENANCE: Author's autograph on front book flap. Perfect bound softcover. Four-color offset lithography. Illustrated paper wrappers with flaps. Housed in foldout die-cut box with gold foil origami crane inserted into cover slot. Signed and numbered by the artist on book's front cover flap -- Description from http://vampandtramp.com/finepress/s/clarissa-sligh.html "Book, cover and case designed by Susan Rhew Design, Inc. and printed by Blue Ridge Printing, both of Asheville, NC."--Colophon. Library has copy no. 243. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Wrongly Bodied Two
Clarissa Sligh, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
112 pages : illustrations, portraits. "Wrongly bodied two" relates the stories of Jake, a contemporary white male imprisoned in a woman's body as he transitions from female to male and Ellen Craft, a 19th century black woman who escapes slavery by passing as a white man. While photographing Jake's transition, Sligh becomes conscious of society's psychological response to the transgressive act of changing one's identity. Recalling Ellen Craft's journey to freedom, Sligh re-examines her own fears of crossing the forbidden boundaries of gender, race and class."--artist's webpage. "Produced during an artist residency at the Women's Studio Workshop .. The book was printed with silkscreen and inkjet pigment ink on Rives Heavyweight. The type fonts are Clarendon, Bodoni, Gill Sans Gold, Futura, and Bookman Old Style. This is number .. of 46"--Colophon. Grey cloth cover binding with decorated pattern in green. Case binding, handsewn signatures, binding. Library has copy 36 of an edition of 46.
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Purgatoys
Esther Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
tri-fold brochure with cut flaps and pull up extension, expandable fan, concertina mobius strip, volvelle, paper mobile; all 5 "books' slotted into folder; cover; interior spread, two 'toys'; details of 'toys'. Five books, letterpress printed, with movable parts that can be manipulated, hung, or constructed like toys.
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Book 91
Keith A. Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 24 leaves each strung together with linen cords. An art work, without printing except for the embossed t.p. Termed a "string book" in the artist's Structure of the visual book, 1984, p. 95. Its leaves are strung together with linen cords and punched with holes to create varying effects of light and shadow when viewed with a single light source.
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The Book of Neglects: highlights of a week
Patricia Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
dos à dos accordion fold book with pop-up elements; cover; colophon; interior spreads; accordion, folded out. For one week the artist tracks the degree to which she has neglected her job, art, home, friends, husband, and children, using pop-up strips and color coding.
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he likes you
Indigo Som, Women's Studio Workshop, Bitchy Buddah Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illus. Work consists of three different sized folded paper "fortune tellers". An additional "colophon continuation" leave is also enclosed in the folded paper sleeve which is bound together with pink netting. ".. photocopied & letterpress printed from plates & linocuts .."--Colophon. ".. produced with a grant from Women's Studio Workshop, funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts."--Colophon. Edition of 100 copies. Signed by the author. Library has copy no. 9.
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Urgency Reader
Paul Soulellis, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 252 pages. "Urgency Reader is a quick assembling of texts, risograph printed in Pawtucket, RI, and bound as a book at the last minute to launch at the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery on December 6, 2019. Suggested topics from the open call included: urgency, craft, queerness, gender, transformation, kinship, race, survival.."--cover wrapper.
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Looking
Karen Spears, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[13] leaves : all illustrations. Cover title. Illustration on cover. Printing method: Offset, hand colored. Binding: Saddle stitch signature. Codex structure.
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A Passage
Buzz Spector, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
case bound in hard cover with silk covered boards; cover; top view of text block; interior pages and spreads, detail; colophon. Book consists of 181 identical pages bound and torn vertically by the artist. The page stubs gradually increase and the resulting text block forms a triangular shape. Content of the text is blurry until the full pages can be completely read. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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Details: closed to open
Buzz Spector, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
perfect bound with soft cover; cover; title page; interior pages. Close up photographs individual hands from a mob of people attending a peace rally reveal the attitude of the individual, closed or open…anger or pacifism.
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Public / Private Peace: selections from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Buzz Spector, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
saddle stitch with plastic translucent cover and cloth covered spine; interior pages. Catalog featuring several installations of work based on photographs in the Swarthmore Peace Collection.
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The Position of the Author
Buzz Spector, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
saddle stitch with soft cover; cover; title page; interior spreads and pages. Portraits of various authors, as typically found on book dust jackets, convey the personality of the author through body language, pose, and props. Behind these portraits are scenes of various personal library collections, reading spaces and bookshelves.
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Time Square
Buzz Spector, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
screw post binding with mylar front cover, and paper wrapper; cover; detail. Results from a Google search of phrases relating to the concept of "time" were quantified and arranged in decreasing order and printed on 60 pages. When bound, the pages were then hand torn in decreasing amounts, revealing an altered version of the original. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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Unpacking my Library
Buzz Spector, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion fold, dos à dos; cover; interior pages. All the books in the artist's library were arranged in order of size, from the tallest to the shortest, on a single shelf in a gallery room large enough to hold them.
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Shared Memories
Lori Spencer, Wendy Spencer, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[20] pages : illus. (some color) . ".. printed in 1998 by Lori Spencer.."--Colophon. In binder with printed title on spine. Printing method: Silkscreen, letterpress. Binding: Long stitch in soft cover. Library has copy 6 of an edition of 90 signed & numbered copies.
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Honey B Hive
Jessica Spring, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
6 leaves : illustrations. Author statement from inside front cover. Limited edition of 66 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Honey B Hive is a sweet B specimen, displaying a hive full of Bs from the collection of vintage wood and metal type at Springtide Press. The book is handset, letterpress printed and bound between velour foil-stamped covers, all inspired by one very painful, then itchy, sting between the toes."--Colophon. Book consists of six leaves interleaved so when the book covers are spread open a honeycomb is formed. Letter "B" type specimens printed on yellow paper. "(in several computer languages, including Unicode, B=66)."--colophon.
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Memory Lame
Jessica Spring, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 portfolio (5 folded sheets). Title from portfolio. Statement of responsibility taken from publisher's website. Edition of 25 copies, signed by the artist. "The contents of Memory Lame build from a central pentagonal memory palace composed of metal ornaments, cuts and borders. Opposite are excerpts from Rhetorica ad Herennium printed on Magnani paper. Forgetfulness from Questions about angels by Billy Collins, ©1991, is reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Common mnemonic devices tease our memory, printed on sheets of handmade Saint-Armand. Tucked in each chapter are illustrations of plants that aid cognitive function, printed on transparent abaca. Text set in geometric shapes share the artist's grueling experience of cognitive and memory testing. Memory Lame is composed of metal, wood type and photo-polymer plates letterpress printed by Jessica Spring with binding by Gabby Cooksey. Abaca paper was handmade in residency at the Morgan Conservatory. The project was possible with Tacoma Arts Commission funding and support from the University of Puget Sound."--Colophon. "Memory Lame focuses on retention and loss of memory. The book structure must be built by the reader with content emanating from a central, pentagonal memory palace-the most common mnemonic place system-aided by cues of geometric shapes and large numerals. Surrounding the palace are excerpts from Rhetorica ad Herennium, the oldest known book on rhetoric and memory. Billy Collins' poem 'Forgetfulness' is repeated in each chapter, the text moving from black to gray as the reader circles the book. Common mnemonic devices tease the memory, printed on sheets of handmade Saint-Armand. Tucked in each chapter are illustrations of plants that improve cognitive function, printed on transparent abaca. Text set in geometric shapes share the author's grueling experience of cognitive and memory testing."--Artist's statement, Vamp & Tramp website.
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Warped Words
Bonnie Stahlecker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[1] folded sheet ([6] leaves) : color ill.. Title from cover. "Bonnie Stahlecker started this book in 1998 while she was visiting artist at Arizona State University. Using Bembo Roman and Lydian Bold Italic from their great type collection, she printed ten copies on Somerset book cover, with intaglio and paste paint providing additional layers. After four years on the shelf, it was finally finished in 2002 at the artist's Indiana studio (no lie)."--Colophon. Numbered, signed and dated in pencil by the artist. Six page accordion fold with three reversed pop-ups. Pop-up structure prevents fully extending sheet. Folded sheet mounted to red cloth boards, in a paper open case. Library has copy no. 4. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund.
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Boundless
David Stairs, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. "A humorously titled small book whose 360 degree spiral binding makes its contents impossible to view." --Printed Matter website (viewed Jan. 22, 2020).
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The Third Person
Thomas Starr, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
48 unnumbered pages. Book may be read beginning at either end. Brown paper wrappers; title printed on removable rubber band strip. Perfect binding. "Publication made possible by a grant from Rhode Island School of Design"--title page verso. Former RISD faculty. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Auto Record : Green Kill
Tyler Starr, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
20 unnumbered pages : illustrations. Title from cover. Inside covers included in pagination. Offset printed. Commercial accordion fold binding. "Edition of 800"--23 Sandy Gallery website. "'Auto Record' is an attempt to digest thousands of pages of declassed documents crated by the FBI in relation to the controversial incident in North Carolina on November 3rd, 1979, commonly known as the Greensboro Massacre. The accordion book format is used to visualize two processions of vehicles involved in the incident (one side of the booklet is the KKK and associates caravan, while the other depicts vehicles connected to the Communist Workers Party's anti-klan parade). Information provided includes weapons retrieved from the incident, a schematic of the bullet holes in the Channel 12 news car, and FBI summaries of the five individuals killed on that day. Information and imagery is all accurately based on or directly collaged from the primary documents."--23 Sandy Gallery website. Gift of Claudia Covert ; 2nd copy gift in honor of Ariel Bordeaux.
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This is an Emergency! : A Reproductive Rights + Gender Justice Portfolio
Meredith Stern, Judy Kashoff, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 portfolio : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 47 cm. Colophon page title. This portfolio contains a hand sewn 'zine' with text by Meredith Stern and Judy Kashoff, a colophon page, and a collection of 17 prints. Horizonal and vertical red bands surround the colophon, text, and 17 prints. "Seventeen artists created a print for this project. Third Termite Press in Pittsburgh printed the colophon and Ladyfingers Letterpress printed the covers. The participants are: several members of the Justseeds Cooperative including: Melanie Cervantes, Thea Gahr, Bec Young, Favianna Rodriguez, Mary Tremonte, Molly Fair, and myself (Meredith Stern). Also participating are: Ian Cozzens of Secret Door Projects, Kristina Brown, Delia Kovac, Emmy Bright, Lois Harada, Erin Rosenthal, Katrina Silander Clark, Arley Rose Torsone, Sam Merritt, and Olivia Horvath."--[see website listed below]. "There is also a written portion of this project which takes the form of a small hand sewn 'zine'. The zine includes interviews with: Judy Kashoff, Gina Glantz, Peg Johnston, Heather Booth, Ken Rinker, Virginia Reath, Elizabeth Esris, and Judith Arcana. Also included is a comic by Susan Simensky Bietila, which was originally printed in World War 3 Illustrated. There are a wide variety of experiences and stories that are untold, and this is an attempt to share some of them. The stories involve people's personal stories as well as their experiences working for equality through political and grassroots movement work. This aspect of the project has an inter-generational component; people in their 20's and 30's interviewed their mentors/elders. Women, feminists, gay, and queer identified people are largely absent from most historical texts and this project will tell some of our stories."--http://www.abortioncarenetwork.org/news/this-is-an-emergency Limited edition of 125 copies. Library has copy no. 13. Gift of Meredith Stern. Includes Press Release.
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Cyborgs
Paul Sunday, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
saddle stitch with soft cover; cover; interior spreads and pages. Black and white photographs of part human, part robot women.
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Grass
Kim Su-Yong, Xianlu Yi, Brother Anthony, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 12 pages. Limited to of 50 copies. Accompanied by folded sheet booklet ([6] pages ; folded to 13.5 x 10.5 cm) "Kim Su-yong, a poet who explored love and freedom as poetic and political ideals"--page [3] of cover. Wooden hardcover. Cover has blind carved designs. Title and author information embossed into covers. Accordion, flag book binding. "Kim su-yong is one of the most exceptional poets of modern Korea. He died at the relatively young age of 48 in 1968, but his poetry has become a symbol of freedom and revolution during the democratization of Korea. His last poem, "Grass," only published after his death, has provoked particular critical attention and debate. Depending on the viewpoint of the literary figures and their political beliefs, the meaning and the value of Kim's poetry showed a great range of differing opinions."--Datz Press webpage.
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My First Artists' Book
Carolyn Swiszcz, Amy Ciullo, Anna E. Kalmbach, Karen Munro, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[16] pages : color illus. Cover title. "This book was produced by the Women's Studio Workshop. It was illustrated by Carolyn Swiszcz. Concept and production by Amy Ciullo, Anna Kalmbach, Tana Kellner, Karen Munro and Carolyn Swiszcz."--Colophon. "This book was published by the New York State Council on the Arts State and Local Partnership Program's third annual conference, Arts at the Center"--Colophon. 1 leaf, accordion-folded and attached to stiff paper wrappers. Booklet ([12 pages ; 98 mm) with title, "Some thoughts about the book as an artistic medium," inserted. Printing method: Silkscreen in two colors. Structure: Throw-out accordion fold book.
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Little Red Witch : Little Red Riding Hood by The Brothers Grimm
Normandie Syken, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 58 x 63 cm. Adapted, retold, and illustrated by Normandie Syken. Library #7 of 10. Hardcover book has thirty three woodcuts and the text is screen printed. The cover is bound with red asashi book cloth and the image is a two colored screen print and hand painted on top. The book is bound with a stab binding and has custom endpapers. The story is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set during the Salem witch trials.
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America: Guests Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed)
Evelyn Terry, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
10 unnumbered pages (including cover) : color illustrations. Title from cover. "Series: America same title, same text - altered books #14"--Colophon. Collage materials: mixed media original prints, artist's hair, sewing thread, and handwritten text. Signed, dated, and series numbered on page [3] of cover. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Artist's Book Ideation Cards
Barbara Tetenbaum, Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
108 cards : color illustrations. "Barb Tetenbaum developed the original set of artist's book ideation cards for use in her teaching practice. This version was further developed and designed in collaboration with Julie Chen"--Colophon card. Two decks of offset printed playing cards enclosed in an acrylic box. "The Artist's Book Ideation Cards deck was designed as an aid to the book artist, to jump start a new project or inform one in progress. There are two decks in the set: Category Cards containing approximately eight cards in each of the seven categories (text, image, structure, paper, layout, technique and color) and 54 Adjective Cards of which three are 'wild cards.' Choosing a card randomly from each of the seven categories and five cards from the adjectives offers an unexpected recipe for a project"--23 Sandy Gallery website. Digitally designed and offset printed. Open edition. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Black Ice and Rain: Psalms 6.6
Barbara Tetenbaum, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet stitch with hard cover and silk covered boards; cover; title page; interior pages; colophon. Michael Donaghy recounts a true story of love and loss, illustrated by Tetenbaum's use of very tactile dyed and collaged handmade paper.
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Gymnopaedia, second movement
Barbara Tetenbaum, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet stitch variation with hard cover; cover; title page; interior spread; colophon. Reflecting the music of Erik Satie who composed several "Gymnopaedia", an antique ledger forms the visual foundation for playful layers of "toe-tapping" imagery.
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American Manifesto
Todd M. Thyberg, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, map . "With a tip of the hat to printers and activists of the past, American Manifesto calls the United States citizens to action on a number of national concerns--our country's health, leadership, and environment, to name a few"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on September 1, 2015. "If America really is the best country on earth... why do so many of our people go hungry? Why do our leaders consistently work for corporate interests rather than individuals' rights? How can our leaders, the media, and we the public still be ignorant to the factual reality of climate change? Why can someone go to prison for a minor drug offense while the people who brought our economy to its knees still receive bonuses? Why are we still taking off our shoes to fly? How can 2/3 of American's population be overweight when people here and around the world go hungry? How is it acceptable to make fuel from food? Why don't we Americans question policies?"--Cover page 4. "Letterpress printed in three colors on a Heidelberg 10x15 Windmill. Printed on 100% cotton Crane Lettra Pearl White in Solano, Gotham, and Kaine typefaces. [Single signature stapled] in Condenons So. Wool Red Tartan paper wraps"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on September 1, 2015. Includes references sheet laid in. Cover letterpress printed in black on red. Staple binding
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Calico Ghosts: a photographic portrait of a silver mining town
Jill Timm, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
perfect bound variation (?) with fold-out pages. Paper-covered boards, foil stamped title; cover; title page; interior pages and spreads; . Color photographs of an abandoned California mining town are populated with black and white photographs of 19th century people, placed as translucent overlays.
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Sunrise 1
Jill Timm, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion variation with three cascading panels, housed in silk covered slipcase; box cover; cover; interior spreads. Tinted sky and mountains, printed on three unfolding panels reveal a peaceful sunrise landscape.
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River D: The Shortest River in The World
Jill Timm, Mystical Places Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[12] pages : color ill., map . "Limited edition of 32."-- Colophon, page [3] of cover.
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Six by Six by Six
Richard Tipping, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[6] pages. "Richard Tipping, wordworks ; Dikko Faust, hand typography ; Esther K. Smith, art direction"--Colophon. "6 by 6 inch edition of 6 x 6 x 6 = 216, on all rag museum board"--Colophon. Signed by each of the authors and numbered. Accordion binding. Library has copy no. 215.
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This Original Self
Sandra Turley, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[12] pages : illus. "This book was published at the Women's Studio Workshop..using a method of devore printing, a process of burning away the natural fibers."--Colophon. Printing method: Letterpress, devore screen print. Structure: Accordion fold book.
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Power Pop
UG, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 10 unnumbered pages. Cover title. Publisher name, copyright date, and edition number from page [4] of cover. Edition of 100. First and last pages are pastedowns. Five double-pages pop-ups, silkscreen-printed in pixilated style of the 8-bit video and arcade games of the 1980s. Illustrations depict cityscapes and robots.
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Altered Book
Unknown. Possibly RISD Student., Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 object. Altered book, consists of a portion of the spine (blue buckram) and a small part of the text block. Portions of words and illustrations can be seen as pages are flipped. Possibly made by a Rhode Island School of Design student. Donated to the library by Jan Baker, a former graphic design instructor who taught classes in artists' books. Case binding. Text in English. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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Hilur
Cecilia Vacuña, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Art Gallery, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 scroll ; in cardboard box + 1 stick + 1 bookmar. "This scroll consists of text handwritten by the artist in russet ink of Chinese writing paper wrapped with interleafing tissue. The text reads: Threads become words and words become threads - on the other side. The title 'Hilar' mixes the Spanish 'hilo' with the English 'lure.'"--Bookmark. "This edition was done on the occasion of the artist's installation K'isa at the University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, October 27 to December 12, 1997"--Bookmark. Library has a Tlön Studio proof. Signed by the artist. Given by the RISD Museum on behalf of donor Lasse Antonsen.
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New Horizons
Bruno van den Elshout, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
212 pages : all color illustrations. Title from case. Edition of 2012 numbered copies. Flatbook. Issued in paper wrapper and slipcase. Book design: Rob van Hoesel. On New Years Eve 2011 artist Bruno van den Elshout launches his camera-machine on the roof of a hotel on the beach in The Hague (NL). His goal is to capture the North Sea-horizon one year round. The camera-machine takes a picture of the horizon once every hour of 2012. That is 8,785 images. When these images start to arrive from the machine, the horizon suddenly reveals his surprisingly overwhelming appearance. Gray, grim, ordinary, or wild, waving, with skies reminiscent of The Hague School paintings in the late 19th century. Sometimes tranquil misty, unreal calm or bombastically colorful. The result is an incredibly surprising collection of images.
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Tumbling Blocks for Pris and Bruce
Claire Van Vliet, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[14] leaves : all color illus.. An Alphabet book. "Tumbling Blocks is a little cut alphabet created from the offcuts from Praise Basted In, the design of which, left an intriguing number of small folios of hand made papers. It will spiral in several ways or stand in a circle- tumble in your hands, but will always fall back into place if you let it. The cube box is folded with two papers that hold each other in place without needing glue"--'Note for standing order patrons' accompanying book. Each leaf consists of two cut letters glued back to back; leaves folded and glued to permit book to open into a variety of shapes. Issued in paper box laid in plastic container (7 x 7 x 7 cm.) Library has copy no. 62 of an edition of 200 signed and numbered by the authors.
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Lunar Calculations
Katherine Venturelli, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
3 folded sheets. Publication information from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website. Variable edition of 5. "Three Turkish map folds. A three-dimensional celestial map intaglio printed on white Lenox print papers. Bound in black linen book cloth over boards. Embossed circle on boards. Cord loop on each board to facilitate hanging"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed November 8, 2016). "Lunar Calculations is a book which opens up into a three-dimensional celestial map. My etched imagery printed on the interiors and exteriors of the pop out pages are lunar phases and mathematical symbols which are archetypal symbols that I have utilized in my on-going work. The book can be displayed by hanging it from the ceiling or on a wall. I selected the Turkish map fold/pop out format for two reasons. One, it enables the lunar and mathematical imagery to be viewed as if it were a celestial map, and two, the pop-out structure element captures and recreates the excitement of infinite possibilities"--Artist's statement, Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed November 8, 2016). Includes wooden stand.
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The Self Inside the House
Susan Viguers, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
pamphlet stitch variation, made from one folded piece of paper, with pop-up elements, enclosed in a paper wrapper; cover; cover (without slipcase); interior spreads and page; colophon. Using architecture as a metaphor, the artist muses on the aging process and how what is on the outside of us does not always reflect the real self, the part of us that is inside.
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Berlin and Phenomena
Wolf Vostell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
14 pages. A Great Bear Pamphlet ; no. 9. Cover title. Translation of: 2 dé-coll/age-happenings. "Translated by Laura P. Williams"--Page 14. Paper wrapper, stapled. Gift of Estera Milman, RISD Class of 1970. Estera Milman (RISD BFA Painting/Printmaking and Film, 1970) scholar of post-World War II avant-garde art. Founded Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art (ATCA) at the University of Iowa, 1982, and served as its director until 2000. She is the author of many books, articles, interviews, and exhibition catalogs on Fluxus and No!art. In December 2018 she donated a selection books from her library to the Fleet Library at RISD. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Library in a Book: seven books in one
Mark Wagner, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
screw post bound album; pages have a variety of types of pockets with assorted small books in them; cover; first opening; interior pages. Using library ephemera such as catalog cards, date due slips, date stamps and more, assorted small artists' books are bound an album giving the the feel of a traveling library.
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Smoke in my Dreams
Mark Wagner, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
case bound in hard cover with exposed spine and paper covered boards; cover; interior spreads and pages. Using images of tobacco processing machines, wafting smoke, ephemera such as maps, hospital parking lot tickets and all the paper found in a pack of Camel cigarettes, the artist conveys his longing to be able to smoke in his dreams, a far safer option than smoking
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Freedom: A Fable
Kara Walker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 19 pages. "A Curious interpretation of the wit of a negree in troubled times, with illustrations.. Presented to you this Christmas '97 by the Peter Norton Family, benefactors." "The Future vision of a soon-to-be emancipated 19th century Negress"--Preliminary leaf. Edition of 4000. Pop-up design by David Eisen, Architects, Inc. Boston, MA ; Laser cutting by Lasercraft, Inc. Santa Rosa, CA ; Text designed by Timothy Silverlake, Valencia, CA ; Printed by Typecraft, Inc. Pasadena, CA. ; Binding by Roswell Book Binders, Phoenix, AZ.
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Martha
Shu-Ju Wang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 26 pages. Cover title. "Gocco printed from original text and design by Shu-Ju Wang. Individual prints by Martha Pomeranz."--Colophon. "Relay Replay Press is dedicated to working with seniors with dementia to create artist's books that illuminate the creative lives of the elderly."--Artist's statement at Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website. Limited ed. of 20 copies. "Martha designed and Gocco printed the individual prints; I designed and Gocco printed the envelopes and the cover. The cover was also dyed with a very diluted acrylic paint; on Rives Lightweight, Nepal Light, and Nepal Heavyweight. Martha took to the Print Gocco like fish to water. She created 18 prints, each full of wonderful little observations about her daily life and sage advice. I thought her prints were like letters to her friends and family, and therefore chose a page format that referenced an envelope form. The book has extra pockets for her to add photographs or keepsakes, and the wrap around cover keeps everything together."--Artist's statement at Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website. Consists of 9 envelope pages to house two prints each. Gocco printed on Rives Lightweight; Nepal Light & Heavyweight. Back cover is extended flap that wraps around to the front with a ribbon and button closure. Blanket stitch around the cover edges. Binding is "Blizzard books", and structure invented by Hedi Kyle.
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Diary of a Sparrow
Kazuko Watanabe, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion variation with sections that pull out to create "rooms"; cover; interior pages. Diaries of the artist's grandfather are translated and reproduced as chapters. These chapters, illustrated with abstract imagery, combine with an unfolding structure to create 3 rooms and a sense of place.
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Superstition Highway
Marshall Weber, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
case bound with cloth spine, paper covered boards, hand painted; cover; interior spreads. Reading almost like a drug-induced trip, Marshall Weber writes of a tough patch of road somewhere in the desert West where strange folk appear. Images and text all hand painted by Fred Rinne.
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Fabrik
Linda Welch, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
84 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Title from book cover. Unique artist book, signed by artist on page [3] of cover. Coptic binding. Pages incorporate acrylic painting, screen print ink, found papers, book board. "A visual flipbook of text, color and pattern," this one-of-a-kind painted book is by Linda Welch. Her abstract, layered, mixed media books incorporate oil painting, collage, screen printing, found book pages and wax."--23 Sandy Gallery website. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
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Night Vision
Anne West, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
French fold pages, perfect bound in hard cover, enclosed in slipcase with magnetic flap closure. Box cover; cover; title page; interior pages and spreads. Anne West's poetry is lushly illustrated with images of night blooming flowers drawn by Deborah Wieder. The rich, fertile, earthy feminine side of life is embodied in the night garden.
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Place of the Long River
W.D. Wetherell, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : color ill. Limited ed. of 125 copies, signed by writers and artist. Bound in blue cloth streaked with brown threads with small woodcut on paper attached to front board; tail edges deckled. Map on lining papers. Visual images and design, copyright by Jim Lee, 1995. Library has copy number 71. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund.
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Tea, C, D&C / cycles interrupted
Amy Wilson, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[36] pages. "Printed at the Visual Studies Workshop Press .. in an anticipated edition of 500, In February 1994"--Colophon.
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A Dictionary Story
Sam Winston, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion fold with hard cover, housed in cloth covered slipcase. Slipcase cover; title page; interior pages; colophon. A dictionary longs to be a book of stories, not just a list of words and definitions. She gets into trouble when she lets her words run about, creating meaningless havoc. The alphabet comes to the rescue and restores order.
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Reading Closed Books
Sam Winston, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
3 volumes. Title from slipcase cover. "This is the first printing.. in an edition of 34 copies with 5 artist's proofs"--Colophon. "This book is printed using a HP Indigo press with GRACoL and Fogra certified HP Indigo Ink.. Hand binding by Haein Song.. Body text is set in Dante MT Pro and Pitch Sans. Book design by Matthew Appleton at Modern Activity with additional design assistance from Pietro Martini. Photography by Andy Sewell and Sam Winston"--Absorbing Light colophon. "Each book has a unique handwritten colophon and title page -- whilst these words were being written the sound of a printer was humbing [sic] away in the studio"--Absorbing Space colophon. "This book is archival inkjet printed onto 54gsm Tosa Shi sheet.. Handbinding by Haein Song in Colorado Seine bookcloth. Body text is set in Dante MT Pro. Book fore-edge photography by Pietro Martini"--Becoming Dust colophon. Issued in a cloth-covered slipcase; each volume signed by the artist. Becoming Dust is bound in an accordion fold format.
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Counting: a book of lists
Janine Wong, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
accordion, dos à dos, uncovered spine with two cloth covered boards; a cloth covered board folder wraps around the book and all enclosed in a cloth covered slipcase, with foil stamped title. Cover; interior pages. Taking bits of information found in old journal entries, calendars, shopping and to-do lists, the artist notes the roles she plays as wife, mother, professor, administrator, architect, and book artist. Found lists are digitally reproduced with letterpress.
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Xiong mao = [Panda]
Xichan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
10 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations. Title from label mounted to cover. Handpainted? ink and watercolor, black, grey, and green. Artist name from red ink stamp on last page. 惜春. Cover boards in green cloth with a repeating pattern printed in dark green and blue. Title and stamp in Chinese characters. Accordion fold. Gift of Jan Baker.
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Hybrid Cartographies: Seoul's Consuming Spaces
Jeannie Meejin Yoon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 folded sheet. "Text/ photographs/ concept/ design, Jeannie Meejin Yoon" Accordion fold, printed both sides of single sheet. Artists' statement: like my experience of the city, this detour/map is not linear. it has been laid out on the front and back of a 60 cm x 60 cm flat surface. A 12 cm by 12 cm module was inscribed to create a 25 square grid on both sides. the surface was in turn cut along the module line, beginning on the bottom right hand corner and spiralling inward the center module. the manipulate surface was then folded in on itself in such a way as to connect the center-front module to the corner-back module -- an obtuse way of arriving at a moebius strip. when completely unfolded, it has no beginning and no end, no front and no back, no inside and no outside. This was my experience of Seoul. Hybrid cartographie, about three building projects in the modern city of Seoul, Korea is a maze book-- made up of complex folds as in an accordion book but twisting and moving in multiple directions as it is unfolded. When completely unfolded the book's pages formthe shape of a mobius strip. Directions for unfolding the book are found on each page in the form of arrows and instructions, but the reader is warned at the beginning that the book is both a map and a detour. Includes bibliographical references.
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Memories of Science
Dorothy A. Yule, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Limited edition of fifty copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Typeset in Garamond, Latin Condensed and Copperplate, designed with Adobe CS5 and letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine. Engravings are from the Dover Pictorial Archives and 'The complete encyclopedia of illustration' by Johann Georg Heck. Star maps.. by Susan Hunt Yule. Music.. by Doug Yule. lyrics.. by Dorothy A. Yule"--Colophon. "Recorded, mixed and mastered at: Avast! Studio, Seattle, Washington. Engineer: Jonny Mendoza; Produced by Doug Yule and Jonny Mendoza. Performed by Big Red Dog. Doug Yule: Guitar, Vox, Shakers. Cary Lung: Mandolins. Tom Collicott: Guitar. Dan Yule: Violin, Bass"--Audio disc. Accordion folded structure held by paper sleeves on both sides; includes five pop-ups. Accordion is fitted into a glass topped box with tray on the bottom holding 3" audio disc. Full size audio disc included separately. Also includes a booklet titled "Serving suggestions: practical considerations for enjoying your book", with illustrations by Susan Hunt Yule. Accordion and 3" audio disc have copyright date 2011. 4 3/4" audio disc is dated 2012. "Serving suggestions" booklet dated 2014.
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A Single {frame}
Liya Zhu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 6 pages. Numbered edition of 12 copies. "printed in Caslon Old Style on French paper with watercolor and lino-cuts"--colophon. ".. [Produced] spring 2019 [for] Art 136: The Artist's Book course, taught by Tia Blassingame"--colophon. Combines handset letterpress, linocuts, watercolor, papercutting and an interactive element to express the significance of self."--Scripts Press.
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Cacaform Birds
Yingchun Zhu, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
Third chapter (Key) is sealed. "The book contains three parts, the first containing doctored photographs that show these birds interacting with sepia cityscapes, alternately goggled at and overlooked by the passers-by. The second introduces us to each individual species through poetic verse, while the third section must be carefully unsealed by the reader in order to reveal how the Cacaform Birds came into being."--Publisher's description. Step into the world of Cacaform Birds - a world that exists a half-pace to one side of our own, at the confluence of imagination, art and reality. Within these pages we meet the 'Glowerspite' (often dozes in a supine position; converts its tail to a head when startled) and the 'Mare-away' (who carries a small black troll on its back and rouses dreamers from night terrors), along with many more: a fantastical aviary brought to life by Zhu Yingchun's art. The book contains three parts, the first containing doctored photographs that show these birds interacting with sepia cityscapes, alternately goggled at and overlooked by the passers-by. The second introduces us to each individual species through poetic verse, while the third section must be carefully unsealed by the reader in order to reveal how the Cacaform Birds came into being. A blend of bestiary, spotter's guide and poetic anthology, this book demonstrates that art and amusement can be found everywhere, if you only care to look.
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Delirium
Philip Zimmermann, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
60 unnumbered pages : color illustrations Printed by archival inkjet in a numbered edition of 30 copies, signed. "Delirium is a book born of the Covid-19 pandemic and time spent in lock-down. The text uses a paragraph from the 1866 masterpiece "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Towards the end of the book, his protagonist, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, has a feverish dream. This strangely prophetic text is quoted and used as the narrative line in this book. Highly manipluated images of jewel-like approximations of the corona virus appeared all over the web in the first few months of the pandemic and serve as the illustrations"--information sheet laid in. "Delirium is printed in 2020 by archival inkjet on acid-free Mohawk paper in a signed and numbered edition of 30. It has been handbound by the artist. The font used is Northwoods, by Cultivated Mind Foundry in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It was chosen because it is similar to a 19th century schoolbook printer typeface, yet still appears quite modern. Like many of their fonts, Northwoods was originally created with a sign-painters brush."--Colophon. Mounted sticker on box: Winner of 2020 AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers, one of best 50 books of 2020. Library has copy no. 25. In phase box.
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Emotional Reactions
Janet Zweig, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
47 pages : illus.. RISD Faculty.
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Heinz and Judy : A Play
Janet Zweig, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[20] pages : illus. (some color. RISD Faculty.
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The 336 Lines Currently Expurgated from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Ninth Grade Textbooks
Janet Zweig, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[12] pages. Gift of the author, RISD Faculty.