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  Vroom! Vroom!

  Hans Aarsman, Nederlands Foto Institut, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color ill. "This publication coincides with the exhibition .. in the Nederlands fotomuseum from 22 June until 31 August 2003"--Colophon. Cover title. "Text, editing, design, Hans Aarsman"--Colophon.

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  Calamity Jane and Questions of Truth

  Kim Abeles, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  50 unnumberd pages : illustrations (some mounted, color), portraits. "1985/1986" Edition of 125 signed copies. Black tape on spine. Mounted illustration and title/author/edition statement mounted on cover. Black cord attached to back cover, cord wraps around two metal grommets mounted to front cover. Library has copy no. 39. Gift of Brian Goldberg.

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  Cecile Abish Firsthand

  Cecile Abish, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [39] pages : chiefly ill. Gift. Inscribed by the artist.

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  All on The Same Page

  Abxchange, Sara Durkacs, Ann E. Gregory, Ed Hutchins, Roberta Lavadour, Sibyl Rubottom, Robyn Sassen, Alice Simpson, Shu-ju Wang, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  8 folded & cut sheets : ill. (some color) + 7 folded sheets in pocket. Title from container. "Part of the 'Once in a while' series of artists' book portfolios created by the gang at Abxchange"--portfolio box. Fall 2002. Limited edition of 35 copies. "Eight artists approach the book form within the limits of one standard sheet of 8 1/2 by 11" paper, printed just on the front, or front and back and folded, cut, glued, sewn and/or fastened into a small work of art." Includes 7 pages of templates which outline the construction of seven of the 8 books. Was [cross] / Sara Durkacs -- Paths to peace / Ann E. Gregory -- Wanted posters / Ed Hutchins -- Perspective / Roberta Lavadour -- Why is that? / Sibyl Rubottom -- A book of wardrobe / Robyn Sassen -- Come to the marathon / Alice Simpson -- More than plenty / Shu-Ju Wang. Library has copy no. 4.

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  Pulse (for my mother) = (pour sa mère)

  Vito Acconci, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [24] pages : ports. Cover title. Text in English and French. Library has no. 69 of 500; signed by the author.

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  Vito Acconci: Catalogue of Headlines and Image

  Vito Acconci, Stedelijik Museum Amsterdam, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [54] pages : illus. Catalog of the exhibition held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Nov. 11, 1978-Jan. 14, 1979. Cover title.

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  Think/Leap/Re-think/Fall

  Vito Acconci, Wright State University (American university), Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [56] pages : illus. On cover: "Working notebook for a piece called 'Middle of the world', Wright State University Art Gallery, Dayton, October 1976."

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  Implosion

  Kathy Acker, Mark Magill, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  28 pages : illus. (some color). Wedge pamphlet ; 1

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  The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec

  Kathy Acker; William Wegman; Laurie Jewel Wegman; Printed Matter, Inc.; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

  201 pages : illustrations. Offset printed artist's book. The case of the murdered twerp -- Longing for better things -- The desperation of the poor -- The creation of the world -- How love can lead youngsters to murder -- The future -- The life of Johnny Rocco. Gift of Brian Goldberg.

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  Possibles

  Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy; Special Collections; and Fleet Library

  [28] leaves . "The following exhibitions may possibly be produced at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts." Cover title. Compliments of Addison Gallery of American Art.

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  Unfolding Poems

  Michele Wong Albanese, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 box (with 8 individual pieces). Wild cats can / Mary-Ann Agresti ([1] folded leaf of plate : all illustrations ; 11 cm) -- I wonder / Ruth Ellen Baxter (1 volume (without pages) : all illustrations ; 11 cm) -- Personal effects / Marcia Ciro ([1] folded leaf (pop-up) ; 11 cm) -- In my hands / Tamara Oppenheimer ([1] folded leaf (with movable parts) : all illustrations ; 11 cm) -- Meditations on leaving / Deborah Klotz-Paris (1 box (with text on ribbon) : chiefly illustrations ; 11 x 11 x 6 cm) -- Vacuum sealed / Teresa Shields ([2] folded leaves of plates ; 11 cm) --Beyond the Museum of Fine Arts / Stephanie Mahan Stigliano ([8] leaves of plates (accordion layout) ; 11 cm) -- On South Cape Beach / Janine Wong ([10] leaves of plates (accordion layout) ; 10 cm). Edition of 27 copies. A collaboration between one poet and eight artists. Each book contained in the box presents a different poem as interpreted by the artist. Printing includes letterpress, silkscreen, inkjet, photocopy transfer on various papers and ribbon, metal, glass, and fabric. Bindings include accordion and flag. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of Marcia Ciro, RISD Alumna, GD BFA, 1977.

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  Security

  David Albertson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [30] pages : illustrations (one mounted). Cloth cover with title embossed on front. Silver front endpapers. Black text pages with lettering and illustrations printed in silver. Some pages have cut-outs. Mounted illustration is a copy of a photograph by Weegee. Laid-in cut-out space is a plastic toy pistol. This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Halcyon Days

  Judyie Al-Bilali, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [18] leaves. "Of an edition limited to 200 copies, this is number 141."--Colophon. Signed by the author. Paste paper book cover. Marbled endpapers. Gift of Laurie Whitehill Chong.

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  Notpoems

  Adele Aldridge, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [45] pages. "Second edition, first printing. The first edition of NOTPOEMS was limited to 150 signed and numbered copies. This edition contains 14 new poems." Gift of Richard Liebler.

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  Untitled

  Laylah Ali, Modern Museum of Art (MoMA), Nicole Parente, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [30] pages : all color ill. . No title page or cover title. All publication information from colophon. Digital production: Nicole Parente. Artists' book featuring Laylah Ali's "greenheads"

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  Badogoodog

  Mary Katherine Allan, Dandilion Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [12] pages : color ill. Edition of 100 copies. Cover decorated with curled strands of wire. Library has no. 92.

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  From Partial Portrait

  Roberta Allen, Wedge Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  12 pages. Wedge pamphlet ; 7

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  China Night

  Terry Allen, Fresno Art Center, Flordia State University Art Center, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  69 pages : ill. (some color). Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Fresno Arts Center and Museum and the Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery, Tallahassee, as part of the author's "Youth in Asia" series.

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  A Thousand Starlings

  Rhiannon Alpers, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 20 pages. Date of publication from colophon. "This book was inspired by sleep-deprived dreams as a new mother in the Summer of 2016. Written, illustrated, and printed by Rhiannon Alpers. Letterpress printed with photopolymer plates and monotype, with an under layer of hand painted stars beneath, on Somerset Velvet Black."--Colophon. Rhiannon Alpers: "The book explores an imagined journey, being carried through the comfort of ones dreams. A journey guided by a murmuration of a thousand starlings, undulating and wisping through the evening sky, their soft voices calming and cooing as they head into the unknown. "Metaphors abound in this book. The support system of family and friends manifests in the starlings, and the twilight evokes a sense of comfort and stability amidst the unknown. The many threads pulling the dreamer along in this world are the guiding voices that safely and carefully show us our way. When we steer off course they gently nudge us and support us as we explore an unknown route. Murmurations themselves have an astonishing and dreamlike effect. Their immense rhythm and flow symbolizes the thin line between the dream and day. "Much of the symbolism also stems from the authors rekindled interest in the long tradition of fables, passed on in her new nightly rituals of telling stories to small ears and eager eyes in the low light of the evening. It is in these final hours that our day fades away and our imagination is carried off to many wondrous places."--Vamp and Tramp bookseller website. One of 30 signed and numbered copies. Flutter accordion construction. Letterpress printed with photopolymer plates and monotype, with an under layer of hand painted stars beneath, on Somerset Velvet Black paper. The endsheets are Fabriano Tiziano Anthracite and bound in Asahi Grey Crepe bookcloth. Foil stamped birds and title. Secret Belgian binding with Italian film yarn.

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  How Havana Stole From New York the Idea Of Cuban Art

  Pedro Álvarez, Smart Ass Press, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [22] pages : all ill. Series: Pinspot ; no. 7 Title on backcover altered Gift of Smart Art Press.

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  A Thought On Monsters

  Ryan Alves, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume : color illustrations . Caption title. Signed and dated inside back cover. Unique book? A collection of eleven mini-comics. Eleven signatures sewn into a case binding. Marbled paper on cover.

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  Concoctions 6: The Spice Series

  Islam Aly, 23 Sandy Gallery, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  16 unnumbered pages. Unique Artist Book. Signed and dated on page [3] of cover. Flag accordion binding, handmade flax paper. Book extends out to 25 inches. Whole spices are part of the handmade paper. Spices have always been known for enhancing flavor and aroma. However, which kind of spices needed, when to add them, and in what quantities? This process is similar to preparing fiber and producing paper by hand. In my spice series, I wanted to document the spices we use at home in Egypt. In addition, I wanted to show how these spices appeal to the five senses in a book that have a unique touch and smell. I use different spices and herbs such as: black pepper, clover, cardamom, and coriander, anise, and hibiscus. Each spice reminds me of a memory: my mother's cooking, walking through the old streets of Cairo, drinking herbal tea in cold winters and sharing food with family and friends. I document these experiences and give the audience the opportunity to reflect on their own experiences when viewers smell, touch and see the pages of the book.--23 Sandy Gallery.

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  The Square

  Islam Aly, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Red oak wooden covers, laser cut, fore-edge laser etching, coptic binding, orange linen thread. "Tahrir Square in Cairo became the focal point and the most effective symbol of the protests in January and February 2011. For 18 days Egyptians repeated the slogan: The People Want to Bring down the Regime (al-sha'b yurid isqat al-nizam) until the regime stepped down on the 11th of February 2011. This book focuses on the revolution slogan. Using Arabic Kufic script the words of the slogan are repeated in an ascending sequence. Section 19 contains the English translation for the slogan The People Want to Bring down the Regime. The last section contains the time and date when the regime stepped down along with the sentence Al Saa'b Askat al Nezam with its English translation 'The People have Brought down the Regime'. Cairo's map is laser engraved on the book covers. Three edges of the book are colored then laser engraved to show the streets of Cairo"--23 Sandy Gallery. Signed, dated and numbered by the artist on the last page.

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  Fiestaism

  Harry Anderson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [32] pages : chiefly color ill. "Printed in Philadelphia at Moore College of Art, April 1976" Gift of Richard Merkin.

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  Decomposition Book

  Kelli Anderson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 133 pages. A self-destroying notebook ... 2/3 usable lined sheets and 1/2 lines down the drain. -- author's website.00% recycled (30% post-consumer) paper made in French's hydroelectric-powered mill -- author's website. Small diagram card of the text laid in (4 x 8 cm) Three holes punched through the left-side of the text. Cover has black and white marbled pattern of a composition book. Perfect binding and black cloth over head of text block.

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  Notebook

  Laurie Anderson, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  6 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations, music, portraits. Artist Book Series ; # 1 Artist Book Series ; # 1. "This book is an edition of 1000"--Title page verso. Artist's book. Text printed from the artist's handwriting ; includes examples of her musical scores and contact prints and photographs of her performances. Film/Song in 24/25 time -- Duets on ice: Genoa/New York City -- Two songs for violin and projector -- Duet for door jamb and violin. Paperback; illustrated front cover. Perfect binding. Gift of Jan Baker.

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  The Acts, The Shelflife: Polyartistry

  Miekal And, Elizabeth Was, Xeroxial Editions, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  volumes : illustrations . Each issue has also distinctive title: volume 1. Visual, verbal, networking ; volume 2. Polyartistry. Edited by Miekal And & Elizabeth Was. Volume 1 includes a painted, decorated 45-rpm record "Depicture DisK" in printed sleeve with title: Masculine propaganda dish / The Elastic Ecstatic. Record produced in a limited edtion of 200.

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  The Acts, The Shelflife: Visual, Verbal, Networking

  Miekal And, Elizabeth Was, Xeroxial Editions, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  volumes : illustrations . Each issue has also distinctive title: volume 1. Visual, verbal, networking ; volume 2. Polyartistry. Edited by Miekal And & Elizabeth Was. Volume 1 includes a painted, decorated 45-rpm record "Depicture DisK" in printed sleeve with title: Masculine propaganda dish / The Elastic Ecstatic. Record produced in a limited edtion of 200.

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  Quincy Book

  Carl Andre, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [40] pages : all ill. Published in conjunction with two exhibitions: Carl Andre "Six alloy plains" March 16-April 8, 1973, Addison Gallery of American Art.. ; Carl Andre "Seven books", March 16-April 14, 1973, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass. Anonymous gift.

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  144 blocks & stones

  Carl Andre, Robert Smithson, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [36] pages : all ill. "For Robert Smithson (1938-1973)"--Title-page. Catalog to accompany an exhibition at the Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Feb. 11-March 11, 1973.

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  Anatomy of a Shakespeare Woman : Peculiar Shakespearian Words for Parts of the Body ; Anatomy of a Shakespeare Man : Peculiar Shakespearian Words for Parts of the Body

  Angela Andres, Lori Spencer, Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  12 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations. Author and imprint from colophon. Publication date provided by artist. Second work on inverted pages. "This book was printed by Lori Spencer on a Heidelberg Offset Press at the University of the Arts' Borowsky Center for the Publication Arts."--Colophon. "Two-sided book is pamphlet-stitched into a dos á dos structure with map sheets that unfold perpendicular to each other."--Catalog. Printed in black and brown inks. Dos-a-dos binding. This book is number 73 in an edition of 209. Gift of Marcia Ciro, RISD Alumna.

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  Saturday Afternoons

  Susan Angebranndt, Harold Williams, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  accordion with pop-ups; cover wrap; book cover; page spreads. Edition of 25 copies. Cover title. In slipcase with mounted color illustration. "Photos: Susan Angebranndt, Harold Williams ; Illustration, story & construction: Susan Angebranndt ; Ink jet printed"--Colophon. Accordion fold book with pop-up illustrations. Library has copy 7.

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  Sankey-Santopietro

  Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [134] pages : color illustrations. Title is from inside front cover. RISD Alumnus, Photo MFA. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

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  In the House of Chop Chop with Mr. Click Click, or the Waste King Versus Erection Eyes

  Stephen Apicella-Hitchcock, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [102] pages : color illustrations. Number 1 of 2, made in the fine year of 1995. Plastic binding, clear plastic covers. RISD Alumnus, Photo MFA. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

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  Where Are You From?

  Alex Appella, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  14 pages : color illustrations. "This on-going, numbered edition was begun in September, 2008, in San Antonio de Arredondo, Provincia de Cordoba, Argentina. This book was printed on Colorspot Nieve paper, 220 gram using an Epson Ink Jet printer"--Colophon. Pages sewn into linen tapes. Flat back binding. Book housed in box made by author. Box has stickers, tags, a ribbon, etc. to look like a traveler's trunk. Library has copy no. 5, made: April 2009.

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  A Performance

  Ida Applebroog, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  7 vols. : chiefly ill. Titles from covers ; volume 1 has no separate title. Last vol. is inscribed: "End of magnum opus, Ida Applebroog, 1982" [vol. 1] -- [v. 2] It's very simple -- [v. 3] Stop crying -- [v. 4] I can't -- [v. 5] I mean it -- [v. 6] So? -- [v. 7] The end (on backcover).

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  Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife: all the dishes you'll need to make from the day you say "I do" until death (or divorce) do you part.

  Nava Atlas, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  smythe sewn, paperback; cover; page spreads: "What a Turkey Noodle Soup"; pg 46-47 "Whoosh" . signed by the artist

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  Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife: from accommodating breakfasts to just desserts, recipes for deteriorating marriages.

  Nava Atlas, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  spiral bound; cover; page spreads.

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  Maille

  Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  24 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. "As a weaver, recreational student of topology and collector of wire entanglement puzzles, I've been studying chainmaille and the many variations of meshes that can be made with interlocking rings. The book 'Maille' is a collection of images from this research which have been heavily processed and rendered using a variation on halftoning: a mesh of differently sized white rings. The volume is hinged together with metal rings like those used to make the weaves in the photographs."--artist's statement.

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  Marbles for the John J. Harvey

  Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 104 pages. "In 2018 I was commissioned by Public Art Fund and 14-18 Now to dazzle the John J. Harvey, an historic fireboat in the New York Harbor. Built in 1931 and retired in 1994, the Harvey was rescued at a scrap auction by a group of maritime enthusiasts. Since then, the boat has been maintained by volunteers, operating as a small museum and offering free rides to the public. The Harvey became an unexpected hero on 9/11, springing back into service and pumping water for 80 hours. The story is memorialized in a Moira Kalman book. Dazzle Camouflage was a painting strategy invented by the artist Norman Wilkinson during WWI, Usually comprised of sharp, contrasting, stripey designs, dazzle was devised to confuse rather than conceal. For my interpretation of the tradition, I marbled paper to generate high contrast images of fluid behaviours. This book chronicles the project and compiles a selection of the unused designs." -- Artist's statement. Two half-sheet pages laid in, one includes information pertaining to this publication, the other lists other open edition titles by the artist. Red plastic spiral binding. Red plastic cover has a circular cut-out with a marble pattern from the first page showing through.

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  Z Helix

  Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  116 pages : all illustrated. "The helix is chiral and exists in two varieties, S and Z. The book Z Helix developed around the manufacturing conventions of coil bindings (which are only available as Z helices), and the color and structure of the sculpture 'Square Helix (Z)' which was included in an exhibition entitled The New Ambidextrous Universe at the ICA London in 2014. The book contains five Z helices"--Insert. Two color coils interweaved. Spiral bindings in orange and blue. Indigo print on 4mm transparency film. Housed in a corrugated cardboard box (31 x 26 cm) Title, author and imprint info stamped with a custom rubber stamp on container.

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  Meet me in my kitchen

  Alice Austin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 circular map fold book. Title from paper wrapper. Publication information from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on August 26, 2015. Limited edition of 20 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "A love of pie inspired this circular love letter of linoleum prints of pie. A reduction printing process was used to create prints in yellow (lemon), red (cherry), and blue (blueberry) with text--expressing love of another--printed on the yellow pie. The reverse side of each print is relief printed by hand from lace. The three part circular map fold book is joined with a magnet which allows the book to stand"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on August 26, 2015. "[Three] map folds. Reduction printing in yellow, red, and blue. Reverse side relief printed. In paper wrapper with printed title. Housed in archival box with paper title label on spine"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on August 26, 2015. Book consists of linocuts on a "turkish mapfold".

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  Manifestos

  A-yo, Philip Corner, and W.E.B. DuBois

  31 pages. A Great Bear Pamphlet; no. 8. CONTENTS : Word power / Alison Knowles -- Answers to manifesto puzzle -- Rainbow manifesto / Ay-o -- "Western civilization is done with ..." / Philip Corner -- Manifesto of the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs -- Take care of the world / Oyvind Fahlström -- A proposition, a problem, a danger and a hunch / Robert Filliou -- "We hold ..." / John Giorno -- Manifesto / [Robert Watts] -- Lettuce manifesto / Al Hansen -- A Something Else manifesto / Dick Higgins -- "Once, the task of the artist was ..." / Allan Kaprow -- "Cybernated art is very important ..." ; Utopian laser TV station / Nam June Paik -- "And I open my mouth ..." / Diter Rot -- Program / Jerome Rothenberg -- "Instead of bombs ..." / Wolf Vostell -- abeeiillmmmsttwy / [Emmett Williams]. Stapled binding. Gift of Richard Liebler. 2nd copy gift of Estera Milman, RISD Class of 1970. Estera Milman (RISD BFA Painting/Printmaking and Film, 1970) scholar of post-World War II avant-garde art. Founded Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art (ATCA) at the University of Iowa, 1982, and served as its director until 2000. She is the author of many books, articles, interviews, and exhibition catalogs on Fluxus and No!art. In December 2018 she donated a selection of books from her library to the Fleet Library at RISD. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  The Inner Shrine

  Jan Baker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Altered book created by Jan Baker (1950-2018). Jan Baker was an accomplished artist and RISD Professor of Graphic Design (1981-2017) guiding students through book arts, letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department. For 37 years, she infused her classes and the campus community with the magic and meaning that comes from the handmade. Lettering, cutting, folding, binding, inventing, collecting - these were some of Jan's favorite things. Read more">. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  The Little Poems of Barbara Erskine

  Jan Baker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Altered book created by Jan Baker (1950-2018). Jan Baker was an accomplished artist and RISD Professor of Graphic Design (1981-2017) guiding students through book arts, letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department. For 37 years, she infused her classes and the campus community with the magic and meaning that comes from the handmade. Lettering, cutting, folding, binding, inventing, collecting - these were some of Jan's favorite things. Read more">. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  The Running of the Tide

  Jan Baker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Altered book created by Jan Baker (1950-2018). Jan Baker was an accomplished artist and RISD Professor of Graphic Design (1981-2017) guiding students through book arts, letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding, and visual poetry in the Graphic Design department. For 37 years, she infused her classes and the campus community with the magic and meaning that comes from the handmade. Lettering, cutting, folding, binding, inventing, collecting - these were some of Jan's favorite things. Read more">. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Don't bug the waitress

  Susan Baker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 portfolio : color illus. Title from portfolio. Text and illustrations on portfolio covers. Four parts including the container. Printing method: Silkscreen. Binding: Paper portfolio, triptych fold. Accordion fold binding. Numbered and signed by artist.

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  Brutus Killed Caesar

  John Baldessari, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Spiral Binding, 34 leaves, chiefly illustrations.

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  Four Events and Reactions

  John Baldessari, Stedelijk Museum, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [52] pages : chiefly illus. ; 13 x 18 cm. Cat[aloghi] ; 62. Cover title. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Nov. 21st, 1975-Jan. 4th, 1976.

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  Neighborhood Garden

  Katie Baldwin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "... created by Katie Baldwin in 2021, while she was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan. Long bicycle rides through the city were the inspiration for these images. Between highways, concrete, rivers and canals, small gardens were found. This book is Risograph printed on French Paper at Directangle Press by Josh Dannin in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. Baxter Stults expertly prepared the files for this project in Knoxville, TN. The edition was bound in Huntsville, AL."--colophon. Pagination includes cover. Colophon on page [3] of cover. Black and white images riso printed with green. Single signature, pamphlet stitch. Library has copy no. 21.

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  When Is Now

  Alisa C. Banks, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 cylindrical box . Edition limited to 4 numbered copies signed by the artist. The wooden cylindrical box contains a sculptural representation of tightly curled hair. Text printed on paper is attached to the inside of the lid. The text is reproduced on an included pamphlet. "'When Is Now' questions the appropriate time to expect equal footing and humane action for marginalized populations. The basis of the text was conceived during a time of personal upheaval that coincided with the 2016 US presidential election and speaks to feelings of shock, denial, immobility, anger, helplessness, and sorrow concerning the ensuing political and cultural shift in this country and beyond. It speaks to my connectedness as an 'unheard' to others who are 'unheard' and is a protest against racially motivated acts of terror, unequal citizenship, callous action, and invisibility. What action to take and when to take it is a personal decision and a multi-faceted community has room for many forms of activism. In simple terms, one form is that of patient activism. Improvements progress slowly and peacefully by living as a 'model' citizen by constantly striving for excellence in every aspect of living in order to break down stereotypes."--artist's statement

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  Black is every color

  Alisa Banks, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (8 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; in box 11.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm. Unique book. Artist's statement: Black, the sum of all colors, mysterious, all-encompassing, a shroud, a swarm. Familiar but unknowable, coveted and uncontained. This book work considers the encompassing nature of blackness. Box containing painted cube surrounded by four flaps featuring single signature books. Each stitched cover opens to reveal a poem about the color black. Media: Book cloth, book board, paper, acrylic paint, graphite, glass, embroidery thread, silk, watercolor, graphite. "Created while watching spring bloom and events unfold during COVID-19."--artist's website. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

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  Beyond the Page

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  spiral binding, die cuts; page spread 4-5; page spread "at dinner table"; page spread "gloves on table"; page spread "woman in bathroom". copy 142 of 200, signed by the artist

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  Five Luminous Towers: A Book to be Read in the Dark

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  pop-up tower; clamshell box, pop-ups, laser cuts, wire-edge binding; cover; page spread La Torre degli Artisani. edition of 50; "Carol Barton Artist Book Process Archive" for this book available in Special Collections

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  Instructions for Assembly: three how-to projects that will improve your life.

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  tab binding with pop-up overlays; cover; page spread "The Style";. edition of 600?

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  Loom

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  book inside clear plastic box; tunnel book variation; accordion side-panel; front, view into tunnel structure;. copy 61 of 600, Anonymous Persian verse

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  The Lookout: An Excerpt from Five Luminous Towers

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  clamshell box cover; pg 1-2; poem "The Lookout"; pg 3-4; pop-up tower; clamshell box with lighted pop-up tower. edition of 400

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  Vision Shifts

  Carol Barton, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  accordion, pop-up panels with cut-out windows, pocket inside back cover with 6 illustrated cards; pg 3-4; "between thought and its expression ..."; pg 7-8; "from familiar ground ...". copy 51 of 500, signed by the artist

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  Missing from America

  Aileen Bassis, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume. Double-sided accordion folder consisting of lithographs and transfer prints, housed in a paper folder. Book is inspired by a New York Times article about black men missing from society.

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  Roots: Korean Diaspora

  Andre Lee Bassuet, AS220 Printshop, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  75 pages : color illustrations. Numbered edition of 100 copies. Date of publication from colophon. In clamshell box (25.5 x 20 x 3 cm). Box covered in brown velor fabric with tan stitching that looks like the stem of a plant. "Parts of the book .. printed at AS220, RISD, Brown University as well as Outlet, Staples, and Minuteman Press." -- colophon. Types and sizes of paper varies, some folded, mounted, tipped-in, etc. Stab binding with black thread. Bassuet also wrote the foreword, front cover calligraphy, illustrated the back cover, and served as the publication's art director. A collaborative artist book of 19 Korean American creatives on the theme of Roots, printed with a combination of letterpress, silkscreen, risograph and digital printing. The open theme of roots have been interpreted differently by each artist. Participating artists include: Andre Lee Bassuet, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, Da Hey Yang, Emeric L. Kennard, Gina Bae, J P, Jeffrey Yoo Warren, Jonathan Chan, Jules Kang Sharpe, Julie Lee, Kaela Han, Karis Ryu, Kyunghee Kim, Lynne Connor, Soyoung L. Kim, Trent Kim, and Yun-Hee Proffit. --Publisher. Library has copy no. 69. Artists include Jules Sharpe, currently a senior in the Illustration Department at RISD.

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  Bastokalypse

  M.S. Bastian, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly ill.. Cover title. Book has text and illustrations on one side and a 52 meter frieze of apocalyptic imagery on the other side of accordion-fold paper board pages. Includes bibliographical references. Text in German English and French.

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  Grave To Cradle

  Hannah Batsel, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  10 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Cover title. Edition of 35, signed and numbered by the artist. Trifold book cover which when opened displays the wingspan of a moth screenprinted on cloth. "This book was printed as part of an In Cahoots residency in Petaluma, CA, in October of 2019. It was assembled in Chicago, IL, in February of 2021"--Colophon. "Inspired by real-life bagworms, insects that construct different cocoons based on the materials available in their environments, and an actual cemetery in Petaluma, CA, 'Grave to Cradle' is a short magical realism story about insects that synthesize not only physical objects found on graves (flowers, ribbons, cacti) but also the memories and emotions of the deceased into dense, crowded cocoons. The lives of a murderer, a young girl, and a married couple are woven into cradles that give new life to the bagworm moths that emerge from them"--Artist's statement, Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed April 28, 2021). Center pages foldout into one large color print. Sewn binding with foldout. Library has copy no. 2.

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  A field guide to weeds: with illustrated taxonomy of the most pernicious and troublesome plants

  Kim Beck, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 96 unnumbered pages. "Third edition of 1500 copies, 2014."--Title page verso. A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. Becks innovative project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivythe very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoidcreep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the readers attention to the overlooked. This third edition features a brown cloth cover and green ribbon marker.--publisher. "Typography and production by Garrick Gott"--Title page verso. Case binding. Offset printing.

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  Parade of the Old New : Panorama ; The Troublemakers : History Painting in the Real World

  Zoe Beloff, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  76 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Held closed by red elastic band Includes bibliographical references "An accordion book that reproduces Parade of the Old New, a panoramic painting on cardboard by Zoe Beloff. Created between 2017 and 2021, the picture is an allegory of the American body politic in dark times inspired by Bertolt Brecht's poem. On the reverse of the accordion you will find Beloff's essay The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World"--new.booklyn.org 40-panel accordion book. SEI

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  Parade of the Old New : Panorama ; The Troublemakers : History Painting in the Real World

  Zoe Beloff and LeeEmma Running

  76 unnumbered pages : color illustrations Held closed by red elastic band Includes bibliographical references "An accordion book that reproduces Parade of the Old New, a panoramic painting on cardboard by Zoe Beloff. Created between 2017 and 2021, the picture is an allegory of the American body politic in dark times inspired by Bertolt Brecht's poem. On the reverse of the accordion you will find Beloff's essay The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World"--new.booklyn.org 40-panel accordion book. SEI

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  Nets

  Jen Bervin, unkown RISD student, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  150 leaves. The texts of Shakespeare's 150 sonnets have been "stripped ... bare ... to make the space of the poems open, porous, possible ..."--Working note. The full text of Shakespeare is printed in light gray type, with the author's selected words printed in darker type. The title is derived in this manner from the word Sonnets. Library has a 2nd copy in Artists' Books: B458Ne. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Attica Book

  Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam, Benny Andrews, Rudolf Baranik, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  47 pages : chiefly illustrations. Gift of Dr. Patrice Marandel.

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  As in Queen: the Abecedarium of a Typophiliac

  Leda Black, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [54] pages : color ill.. "[P]rinted letterpress from foundry type and polymer plates using 27 typefaces ... on Somerset paper with a Vandercook sp-20 and a Heidelberg windmill"--Colophon. Printed on double leaves. Library has copy no. 84 of 100 copies.

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  The Appeal of Pornography

  Karen Bleitz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  drum leaf binding, hard cover, pop-up, movable parts; accordion; cover; page spread, title page; page spreads; colophon. Pop-up book featuring the vast array of pornographic materials available in today's culture and the resulting objectification of women. Designed by Karen Bleitz, hand cut and bound by Amelia Drinkwater. Originally produced in 1996, re-issued in 2007.

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  Alluvium

  Mare Blocker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  hand-sewn couplets, linked at spine; letter-fold wrapper, partially open; back cover; front cover; page spreads. copy 2 of 40

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  Mister Man

  Mare Blocker, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  accordion; cover; page spread. unnumbered limited edition

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  Rain/Fall

  Denise Bookwalter, Michael Bookwalter, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (partly color). Limited edition of 50 numbered copies. Co-published: Chicago: Center for Book and Paper Arts. Artist book consisting of 9 rotatable volvelles inserted into cardboard pages. Printed on Legion Bamboo paper. Bound in red book cloth. "The project Rain/fall accentuates the physicality of the book and the possibilities of contemporary mobile technology combining these seemingly disparate forms to create a complementary cross platform reading experience. Rain/fall is driven by geography and weather. The text in both the app and the book is determined by where the reader is and what weather the reader is experiencing at that location. In the app the reading experience is driven by location and weather data culled from a live database, while in the book the experience is driven by the reader who inputs his or her own weather data"--Artist statement. "Through laser-cut rotating wheels (volvelles) Rain/fall proposes a new poetic form determined by weather data, where each page contributes two lines to a poem assembled by the reader in accordance with the local forecast. Designed by Denise Bookwalter and fabricated at Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University, the book is part of a hybrid project: a companion app, engineered by Meg Mitchell at the University of Wisconsin, and available free of charge on Apple's App Store, performs the same function digitally, accessing local weather data through GPS. While the digital affordances of the app are possible only with recently developed mobile devices, the book incorporates a mechanical computing technology devised by Persian astronomers in the 11th century. Together, the two versions dramatically illustrate expanded possibilities for the book form, both physical and digital, and the radical changes in literary practice that publication with new media can now enable." -- Promotional statement. "With the book, readers can choose their current local weather condition on the volvelle at the front of the book then turn the volvelle on each page to the matching icon to read the corresponding poem" --From colophon. Issued in cardboard box. Also issued as app-edition and complemented by app. Library has copy 13.

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  Fashioning

  Denise Bookwalter, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  20 unnumbered pages : illustrations Limited edition of 32 numbered copies. Title from colophon. "To read the book please put your hands into the cover handles and open your arms."--Colophon "Fashioning is the second book collaboration between Denise Bookwalter and Lee Emma Running. In Fashioning the artists continue their work with their intimate relationship with clothing. Clothing retains the story of the wearer. In Fashioning the artists capture their relationship with clothing by making rubbings of embellishments found on personally significant garments. The drawings directly capture a moment in the life of the textile. The textile contains its own evidence of the hands that made it and the bodies that wore it. Each of the rubbings were transferred to letterpress printing plates, printed in white, resit dyed, and waxed to create a book structure that becomes a book the reader wears. Fashioning is a tactile experience embedded in cloth and paper."--Publisher's statement at the Small Craft Advisory Press website (viewed February 19, 2020) Treated natural leather cover with stippled title and two dyed leather handles attached to front and back covers. Holds 20 leaves, concertina bound to one another by two 3-4 cm accordion folded paper strips running through every page. Images were transferred from crayon rubbings to letterpress printing plates, printed in white ink, resit dyded, and waxed. Issued in case lined with brown paper.

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  Raising The Supine Dome

  Amy Borezo, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  Double-sided accordion book. Text and illustrations printed on one side of board; white grid on gray background printed on reverse. Numerous cutouts reveal printed grid. Bound in gray paper-covered boards; in cloth-covered slip case, as issued. "Raising the supine dome, by Amy Borezo. Printed in an edition of 20 on Holyoke Fine Paper from 14 point Caslon hand-set metal type and photopolymer plates at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH in the fall of 2010. Titles set in Futura. Binding inspired by Deborah Howe's screen book."--colophon. Double-sided accordion book. Text and illustrations printed on one side of board; white grid on gray background printed on reverse. Numerous cutouts reveal printed grid. Bound in gray paper-covered boards; in cloth-covered slip case, as issued (29 cm) "In 1948 at Black Mountain College, Buckminster Fuller attempted to erect his first geodesic dome, without success. He would return the following year to complete his project... The text in this book comes from a variety of sources including Charles Olson's poem 'The Praises,' Elaine de Kooning's personal account..., Martin Duberman's book Black Mountain College..., and the writings of Buckminster Fuller."--page [13].

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  The Flood | Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6

  Kelie Bowman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  #15. 1 of 32 publications in the Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6. Cinders Gallery Huge Box Set #6 curated by Cinders Gallery, contains 32 individual artists' books and zines by various artists, produced between 2007-2014. Mediums include: inkjet, hand painting, silkscreen, photocopy, collage, digital print, photo, pencil, ink. Bindings include: hand sewn, stapled, pamphlet. CONTENTS 1. Illnesstrations / Mike Taylor -- 2. Who's Gonna Empty the Catbox??? / Mel Kadel and Travis Millard -- 3. 14 regular polygons approach a circle / Karl Larocca -- 4. Vehicles of the Ancients / Mike Pare -- 5. Black Hair / Chris Uphues -- 6. Gaylord Phoenix / Edie Fake -- 7. Haunted Forest / Mickey Z. -- 8. When prophency meets proof / Ben Beaudoin -- 9. Dawn / Baron Von Wuste and Eli Lehrhoff -- 10. Pasado-Oscuro / Juan Echeverry -- 11. Motors / Gary Kachadourian -- 12. Lichen Ocean / Allyson and Jeremy -- 13. Rav #8 / Mickey Zachilli -- 14. Limitless Range / Kelie Bowman -- 15. The Flood / Kelie Bowman -- 16. Advertisement catalogue 2009 / Noel Friebert -- 17. Corp Real Breach / Chris Day -- 18. Combining Our Explosives / Sto Len -- 19. SETI / Ben Voss -- 20. Ecstatic Peace #5 / Various -- 21. Sleep Talking / Todd Jordan -- 22. Window Washer / CF and Mikey Z -- 23. The Spirit World II / Conor Stechschulte -- 24. My Best Pet / Noela Freibert -- 25. Pixel Junk Destructoid / Pakito Bolino -- 26. Untitled book / Sto Len -- 27. Daybook / Kelie Bowman -- 28. Mr. Cellar's Attic / Mr. Freibert -- 29. What Kind of Magic Spell to Use? / Matthew Thurber -- 30. Followers of Sound / Chris Duncan, Rich Jacobs, Andrew M Scott -- 31. Deelimoo Dee / Moulinex -- 32. Whack / Lump Collective. NOTE Accompanied by an [8] page ([5] leaves) list of contents, listing edition numbers, dates of publication, paginations, mediums, etc. Housed in archival cardboard box with space dividers and illustrated title sheet mounted on cover. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

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  Untitled

  Kelie Bowman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, accordion folded, all color illustrations. Signed and dated inside back cover. A unique accordion book with ten panels. Each panel has three or more silkscreened triangular pieces hand stitched together to form a page; each page is stitched to the next. Attached to cardboard covers which have silkscreened abstract illustrations. "A pseudo-accordion fold book with sewn pieces of silkscreened prints which can be folded and warped in endless combinations, making each reading experience unique."--Booklyn Artists Alliance flier.

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  Dark Archives, 1-41

  Andre Bradley, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  3 booklets, 1 postcard, and 1 sheet (2 sided) in paper folder. "Publisher's Description: Dark Archives by artist Andre Bradley is a provocative exploration of one black man's memories of childhood. An autobiography in fragments, Dark Archives interweaves Bradley's writing and photographs with pictures from his family archive. Part story, part lyrical investigation, Dark Archives aims to upset the linguistic and visual constrictions placed on black males. Bradley powerfully combines image and text in this deeply moving meditation on narrative agency, on the family as archive, on being a young black man, and on being Andre Bradley." "Design by Elana Schlenker"--back cover. "Second Printing, 2016"--back cover. "Printed in Syracuse, New York by Eastwood Litho in an edition of 200."--back cover. "Image Text Ithaca is an initiative of Ithaca College"--back cover. "Nicholas Muellner and Catherine Taylor, editors"--back cover.

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  CB&S Swatch Book

  Noah Breuer, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume, 22 unnumbered pages. Title provided by publisher. Edition of 100 numbered copies. Artist's book consisting of a swatch book structure with screw post. Polymer plate/letterpress-printed images are based on rubbings that the artist created from the source material; additional woodcut-printed imagery is used as well. "Published in 2018 by the San Francisco Center for the Book as part of the Small Plates Program. The woodcuts were designed and laser engraved by the artist and printed at both SFCB and the University of Oregon."--Colophon. "For the last two years, I have been producing printed works on paper and fabric which explore the visual legacy of Carl Breuer and Sons (CB&S), my Jewish family's former textile printing business. In 1942 CB&S was lost as a result of a forced sale to Nazi Party members, the Breuer family fled Europe, and those who remained were killed. After traveling to the Czech Republic and accessing a previously unknown cache of CB&S material housed at the Czech Textile Museum in Česka Skalice in 2016, I used the swatch books and printed textiles I found there as a nucleus of primary source material and I embarked on a reclamation project."--Artist's statement provided by publisher. The business of Carl Breuer & Sons was originally established in 1897 in Bohemia. The CB&S patterns used as the basis for the designs in Noah Breuer's book were originally intended for use on household textiles, such as tablecloths and handkerchiefs. After appropriation by the Nazis in 1939, the CB&S factory was used to print thousands of the yellow "Jude" star badges, which became emblematic of Jewish oppression.

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  The infinite between us

  Inge Bruggeman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (unpaged) : color ill., folded maps. "This book was conceived as a residency project for the Atelier Vis-à-Vis in Marseille, France. It was printed on Akatosashi paper in an edition of 20 copies and completed during the spring and summer of 2011 by Inge Bruggeman. The imagery was printed on a Ledeuil etching press and a Vandercook SP15 repro proof press... The text was letterpress printed in Inge's studio in Portland, Oregon on a Vandercook 219AB, where the binding work was also completed."--Colophon. The map imagery for this book was inspired by a collection of books given to me by my father on the 18th century sea explorer Jean-François Galaup de Lapérouse... The book is about our use of language to know or understand something. Being a cultural construct however, language is not truly an objective or complete way of knowing something. This project maps the spaces left between the known and unknown.--Artists' website. Includes errata slip. Sewn binding, letterpress printed cover with title and three die-cuts, in tri-fold paper wrap with letterpress printed title.

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  Fairmont Color Card: FCC

  Sarah Bryant, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 box (8 folded sheets, 1 sheet) : color illustrations, mounted fabrics Title from front of folded sheets. Limited edition of 20 copies. "Fairmont Color Card is an exploration of the roles of textile, color, and fashion in the origin story of landfill culture. Text for the project was culled from 1977-1978 Home Furnishing Color Card, produced by The Color Association of the United States, Inc. and The Wastemakers, written by Vance Packard in 1960. Designed and produced between 2019 and 2021, the project began in one place and ended in another. Materials for this project include my sheets, my clothes, and thread color matched to these textile samples the walls, hair, and skin found in my home. Produced in an edition of twenty copies, the fabric collages included in this project are all identical save for one, the card titled "the significance of these private worlds," which is unique to each copy."--https://bigjumppress.com/section/507261-Fairmont-Color-Card.html "Techniques include: Letterpress printed text from handset Bembo type, textile, and foil blocking. Materials for the enclosure include binders board, Duo Bookcloth, and fabric."--https://bigjumppress.com/section/507261-Fairmont-Color-Card.html Two-part cloth-covered box, letterpress printed colophon sheet mounted inside box lid. Strips of fabric, some knotted, mounted to inside bottom of box. Library has copy no. 9, signed in pencil by the artist. Jan Baker Fund.

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  Half Premonitions of the Moon

  Sarah Bryant, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume (36 cards, 2 accordion folded sheets, wooden instrument) : illustrations Edition of 45 copies. In paper binder with belly band enclosure. "Half Premonitions of the Moon is an instrument, modular score, and set of performance instructions housed in a custom-built enclosure. The score and instrument were developed by Holland Hopson, a sound and media artist, composer and improviser. The enclosure was designed, printed, and hand produced by Sarah Bryant, a book artist who works under the name Big Jump Press. The customizable score is assembled from a set of 36 cards. This allows individuals or groups to use chance operations to create a unique version of the piece for each performance. The instrument itself is a custom-designed, laser cut bullroarer played by swinging it in circles on the end of a string. Bullroarers are some of the oldest and most widespread instruments in human cultures. They can be found across the globe from Australasia to Africa and the Americas They are often used to evoke natural phenomena such as wind and rain during ritual events. This musical work favors patience, stasis and quiet focus over drama, development and sudden contrasts."--Big Jump Press website. "To create the score Hopson wrote code using Processing to generate and position graphic shapes on the page. Bryant converted the shapes to printing plates and used traditional printing and bookbinding techniques to convert Holland's digital designs to a set of cards and an accordion folded housing. Presenting the project as a kit allows for the dissemination of the piece to multiple venues, including gallery spaces, outdoor performances, and libraries with collections of artist books. By creating this hybrid object, Bryant and Hopson hope to bring together audiences from the book art, music and visual art worlds."--Big Jump Press website. Letterpress printed from polymer plates and laser-cut oak on French Construction paper. Library has copy no. 32. Jan Baker Artists' Books Fund.

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  The Radiant Republic

  Sarah Bryant, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 box, 5 volumes, 9 concrete forms, 1 sheet of glass. "In The Radiant Republic, language from Plato and Le Corbusier has been combined to create a narrative in five parts. Each part is bound separately, and features a portion of an interlocking landscape with no fixed beginning or end. The project is housed in an elaborate enclosure featuring elements of wood, cement, and glass. Letterpress printed and completed in 2019."-Publisher website. Box constructed with finger jointed, pressed-wood with pale green cloth lid. Lid has image of three icosahedron forms. Box contains 5 pamphlet-stitched volumes wrapped together. Each volume consists of inked and uninked text impressions with a folded color print at center. Sheet of glass covers nine concrete geometric forms (3 icosahedrons, 3 cubes, and 3 pyramics).

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  Which one are you?

  Marylee Bytheriver, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  A yellow ribbon holds the book together, 26 pages, chiefly illustrations. Edition limited to 100 copies, signed by the artist. Consists of a Jacob's ladder structure in which photographs are attached on both sides. Photographs of the artist's family are scanned and manipulated onto Rives Lightweight and glued to foam core. Printed paper strips hold book sections together. Texts on paper strips use three different type faces: one reflecting the artist's recollections of her childhood; one quoting from The birth order book : why you are the way you are, by Dr. Kevin Leman; and the last quoting from the I ching, or, Book of changes. A yellow ribbon holds the book together.

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  Diary : How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued, Part Three (1967)

  John Cage, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  14 pages. A great bear pamphlet Great bear pamphlet (Unnumbered) Poem. Cover title. "The first section of the 'diaries, ' which are collections of thoughts that develop out of working and being alive, appeared in the little magazine Joglars, issue number three. The second is in the Spring 1967 issue of the Paris Review."--Page [15]. Multi-coloured thoughts and social reflections; unique design by the artist. Type printed in various colors. Stapled binding. 2nd copy gift of Estera Milman, RISD Class of 1970. Estera Milman (RISD BFA Painting/Printmaking and Film, 1970) scholar of post-World War II avant-garde art. Founded Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art (ATCA) at the University of Iowa, 1982, and served as its director until 2000. She is the author of many books, articles, interviews, and exhibition catalogs on Fluxus and No!art. In December 2018 she donated a selection of books from her library to the Fleet Library at RISD.

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  Rolywholyover: A Circus

  John Cage, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 box : ill. (some color). Title from box lid. Issued in connection with a travelling exhibition of the same title, organized by the museum and opening there Sept. 12, 1993. "The box includes reprints of texts that Cage found useful and inspiring, as well as important new essays. Also included are writings and letters by Cage, reproductions of works by Cage and others, musical scores, recipes, advice on healthy eating, and photographs"--Prospectus. Paying attention / Anne d'Harnoncourt -- Nothingtoseeness / Julie Lazar -- John Cage in the social realm / Laura Kuhn -- Uncaged words / Joan Retallack -- Cage and counting / Mark Swed -- Anarchy / John Cage -- An autobiographical statement / John Cage -- Macrobiotic cooking / John Cage -- The agenbite of outwit / Marshall McLuhan -- What should I eat? / Andrew Weil -- Chronological table of John Cage's life / Ellsworth Snyder -- Zen and Dhyana / Daisetz T. Suzuki.

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  Exquisite Pain

  Sophia Calle, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  264 pages : ill. (some color) ; 19 cm. "Original French edition c2003 Actes Sud, Alres, France, translated from French by Charles Penwarden"--Colophon. "I left for Japan on October 25, 1984, unsuspecting that this date would mark the beginning of a 92 day countdown to the end of a love affair."--Backcover.

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  Light Journal

  Francesca Capone, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  102 pages : illustrations. Edition of 200 copies. Accompanying the book: sunflower seeds, a piece of turmeric dyed canvas, plastic glow in the dark star, and a postcard of a neon weaving. Book and objects all housed in a plastic bag. Black, paperback, perfect bound journal. "Light Journal is a conceptual writing project, where daily perceptions of light have been recorded as notes on a smart phone (a source of light unto itself). Similar to the process of weaving on a loom, the book starts at a point in time, and then builds upwards towards the present. The text reads backwards from most present to past, measuring the stormy transition from October 2019 into April 2020. It forms a long and colorful tapestry of text in time, and a soft coping meditation and response to the difficult climate we are living through. Built into the text are symbolic drawings from petroglyphs rendering light forms, which are scattered all over the Pacific Northwest, where journaling light has some of its most historic roots - measures of time carved into stone by early humans. Accompanying the book are a series of concrete poems: sunflower seeds, a piece of turmeric dyed canvas, a glow in the dark star, and a postcard print of a neon weaving."-- Publisher. Black paperback cover with lettering and illustration printed in yellow and blue. Perfect bound. Gift of the artist. RISD Alumna, Textiles 2009. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

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  Woven Places

  Francesca Capone, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  2 volumes in 1 : illustrations ; 1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages). "First edition of 150, September 2018" "Designed by Kristen Mueller" "Photography for the first book by Liam Gillies" "Photography for the second book James Ryan Jones" "Cover silkscreen printed at DIY Space for London" --colophon. Two single signature booklets, each stapled. Housed together in a clear plastic cover with printed title and illustration in blue. Laid in folded sheet has side-stitching. Gift of the artist. RISD Alumna, Textiles 2009. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

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  The Walk Book

  Janet Cardiff, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  photographic print. Text documents Janet Cardiff's audio walks in Paris, London, and New York. Compact Disc recorded in binaural audio with multiplayers of sound effects, music and voices added to the main walking track to create a 3D sphere of sound. Includes index of walks. Audio compact disc mounted on front cover. Four loose photographs inserted in text.

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

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  Pictorial Webster's: G. & C. Merriam dictionary engravings of the nineteenth century printed alphabetically as a source for creativity in the human brain, with additional dissertation

  John Carrera, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  case-bound in leather, clamshell box; open clamshell box with closed book inside; front cover; page spread 24-25, "letter B"; page spread 270-271, "letter P";. copy 10, signed by the artist

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  The Pursuit of Happiness

  John Carrera, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  cover; spiral bound; interior page; "Fragment", "Extreme Makeover"; page spread; interior page; detail. number 380 in edition of 1,000, Accompanied an exhibition "The Pursuit of Happiness" at The Map Room, Portland, Maine May 1-June 26, 2004

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  Yellow Wallpaper. Selections

  Crystal Cawley, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [2], 20 pages, [5] pages of plates : color ill. ; 29 cm. 5 colograph relief prints; mounted paste paper frontispiece. Illustrated paste-down end papers (collographs). Issued in an illustrated dust-jacket (frottage and acrylic paint on tracing paper, laminated with acrylic medium). "The text ... first published in New England Magazine, January 1892 ... This book was designed and produced by Crystal Cawley. It was typeset and printed at Wolfe Editions ..."--Colophon. Edition limited to 30 numbered copies. Library has copy no. 22.

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  Connect the Dots

  Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  long stitch with cloth-covered cover boards, housed in a wrap box with plexi front and magnet closure; closed book inside cloth covered box; cloth covered box open with book inside; interior of cloth covered box; book cover without box; interior page; page spread. number 9 in an edition of 18, signed by the artist

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  Input / Output: mapping the creative process

  Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 volume. Artist's book by Macy Chadwick. Title page spans two pages. Limited edition of 100 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "'Input/Output' was created as one of the Small Plates series at San Francisco Center for the Book in 2016. The book was designed and written by Macy Chadwick and was letterpress printed at SFCB with Gotham typeface on Cougar Opaque paper using linoleum blocks and polymer plates with the assistance of Paola Hurtado, Cheryl Ball, Lian Ng, Carrie Ann Plank, Laurie Whitehill & Megan Adie... The binding was based on Keith Smith's 'border book' which opens out to create a complete image"--Colophon. Issued in an orange-cloth-over-boards four-flap wrapper lined with illustrated paper. Inner flaps have a slot-and-tab closure, outer flaps have magnetic closure.

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  The Conversation

  Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  accordion; slipcase cover; cover; page spreads; accordion partially unfolded. number 37 of 50 copies, signed by the artist

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  The Topography of Home

  Macy Chadwick, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [20] pages : color ill.. Edition of 50 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. [Letterpress] ... printed by Macy Chadwick ... with pressure prints and polymer plates on Mohawk Superfine and French's Extra Blue Butcher paper ... Window images hand-stenciled on Silk Tissue." -- Colophon. Pages attached to a concertina with most pages having a circular silk tissue window so that the preceding and following pages show through. Gift Fund. Library has copy no. 35.

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  Aggregate Memory

  Macy Chadwick, Lisa Onstad, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  cloth covered box exterior; accordion, dos a dos, housed in a clamshell box; cloth covered box interior; page spread; "Returning again, past and present converge"; page spread; "Days steeped..."; page spread; inside front cover. number 34 in an edition of 65, a collaborative work signed by both artists

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  A Piece of string

  Jeong-In Cha, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  single book, all illustrations, sewn elements through out, 14 pages. Title from spine. Signed and dated by the artist.

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  Real Life with Partner

  Jeong-In Cha, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  [20] pages. Cover title. Library has copy no. 3 of an edition of 8. Signed and dated by the artist.

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  Parallax

  Karen Chance, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

  1 folded strip, 70 pages, chiefly color illustrations. Printed on both sides of a strip folded accordion style. "Printed at Nexus Press in the fall of 1987"--Colophon.