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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Asian American Project
Irene Chan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 case, 35 cards. An open edition artist book. Contains 35 loose and unnumbered cards, much like business cards. Print media on paper, with press name Ch'An punched out. Housed in a red, white, and blue paper case with slip-in envelope closure.
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Barbie Paper Doll: A Transformed Wardrobe With Textile Mill History
Irene Chan, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 artist's book : color illustrations. Written, designed, and produced by Irene Chan ... produced in an edition of 10 copies. Place of publication for Elsewhere Artist Collaborative from box. Digital prints of cut paper doll clothes. Found object into sculptural book. Printed and illustrated paper box with paper doll, doll clothes, and printed leaf of references for text and images. "American textile history is printed on sixteen paper doll Barbie's clothes. Original doll from 1980 found at Elsewhere Museum and Residency. History is in the form of text and images from mill worker interviews and portraits, tools, statistics, and mill life folk songs"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers website. "Includes these paper doll outfits: Cotton picker: Green skirt and blouse showing on the skirt image of cotton picker in fields; Mill girls' spirits: Blue prom dress showing ghosts of young mill girls; Spin and spool: Green and white turtle neck sweater with words "spin and spool;" Charred mills: Brown belted coat with industrial town skyline around hem. Mill tools: Long pink sleeveless dress, slits up the sides with tools pattern; Textile mills: Skinny pants with textile mill illustration design; Loom: Evening gown with boa showing woman at loom.; Mill worker: jacket, blouse, and skirt with image of mill worker and history of skirt.; Mills are closed: Long sleeve shirt with white overblouse with words "Mills closed / 1990-1997"-Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers website.
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Spectacular Vernacular
Jessica Charlesworth and Tim Parsons
1 volume, 152 pages . Living in a Material World, Parsons & Charlesworth at the Chicago Cultural Center / B. David Zarley -- Spectacular Vernacular / Parsons & Charlesworth -- Index of works -- Observe, Experiment, Speculate, Parsons & Charlesworth in conversation -- Agile Ciphers for Cultural Truths : a consideration of objects and their meanings / Lee Ann Norman. "Our Spectacular Vernacular artists book summarizes and presents our solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2016. Along with many photos of the exhibition and the process of its creation, the book contains Agile Ciphers for Cultural Truths, a 'hybrid essay' by Chicago-based writer Lee Ann Norman, providing insight into the ideas, theories, and interests that influence our design practice. The book also includes a transcript from our panel discussion moderated by Zoë Ryan, the John H. Bryan Chair and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago, which took place at the Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center in December 2016. The launch of this book coincided with the opening of Spectacular Vernacular at the Brooks Stevens Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design on November 3rd 2018."--parsonscharlesworth.com website. In middle of text is additional booklet, "MeMo" ([24] pages : illustrations ; 18 cm) Memo booklet originally produced in conjunction with an exhibition held at Wanted Design, May 17-20, 2013, New York, New York. "Concept, modelmaking, writing, and illustrations by Jessica Charlesworth"--Me-mo.co website. Rubberband binding.
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Bitter Chocolate
Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume. "Bitter Chocolate was written and designed by Julie Chen. Illustrations of the cacao forest and cacao pods were created by Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder. All other images were created by Julie Chen. All elements were letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on a variety of papers including Old Masters handmade paper from Papeterie Saint-Armand in Montréal, Zanders Elephant Hide and Hahnemühle Ingres"--Colophon. Commissioned for inclusion in "Just one look," an exhibition of contemporary book arts held in the Special Collections Division of the University of Washington Libraries from March 31-July 29, 2016. Limited edition of 50 copies, signed and numbered. Narrative about a fictional goddess of chocolate, "Cacao Woman," a character loosely adapted from the Popul Vuh, the Mayan Book of Council. It is interspersed with historical and contemporary facts about chocolate production and consumption, as well as vignettes from the author's personal history with chocolate. Book is bound in Jacob's Ladder format and enclosed in a cloth-covered, four-flap case with magnetic closures. Title label on top of case. Title, colophon, and "forward" printed letterpress on three sheets mounted inside case. "The Jacob's ladder structure allows for four distinct presentations of content. The book is first unfolded into accordion format, presenting the reader with visual and written content on each side. Then the page panels can be flipped over within the hinge straps that connect them revealing the second half of the content. The full meaning and impact of the story is only revealed when all four parts of the content are discovered and read"--Artist's website, viewed November 30, 2016.
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Bon bon mots: a fine assortment of books
Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 box, 5 objects with color illustrations inside. The box, which is designed to resemble a candy box, contains 3 miniature books (2 of which are accordion folded), 1 folded octagonal object with text, and a small box with text containing 5 copper balls which are to be placed into 5 holes on box's bottom surface. All are designed to resemble pieces of candy and are nested in a cloth which fits over partitioned bottom of box. A leaf with box's contents is mounted on the inside lid. Title from box. Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates in an edition of 100 copies.
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Cat's Cradle
Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, forms a star-shaped structure when opened. Limited edition of 50 copies ; each numbered and signed by Julie Chen. Digitally printed on Mohawk Superfine and includes laser cut elements. Carousel structure: 5 spreads, each with 3 layers of overlapping concertina folds with sections cut out to create a 3-dimensional scene. When opened and covers are placed against each other, it forms a star-shaped structure, 11" in diameter. Tie closures. "Cat's Cradle translates thoughts about the nature of existence from idea to form by employing the book structure itself as a visual/physical model of concepts portrayed in the text. The book as object can be displayed in two distinct ways: circularly or linearly. This dual display feature contributes its own conceptual meaning to the book as a whole."--Flying Fish Press. "The idea for Cat's Cradle was generated using the Artist's Book Ideation Cards by Barbara Tetenbaum and Julie Chen. To inaugurate the publication of this card set, Barb and Julie invited a group of book artists to each make a book that was inspired by a drawing of the cards. The resulting books were shown at the Seager Gray Gallery in Mill Valley In February and March of 2013 as an exhibition entitled 'Ideation by Chance.' The cards drawn for Cat's Cradle included the following: Text: self-generated, Imagery: none, Paper: neutral, Color: least favorite, Technique: digital, Layout: across the fold, Structure: Innovative binding, Adjectives: mysterious, spiritual, encyclopedic, organic, lyrical."--Flying Fish Press.
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Full Circle
Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) in case : illustrations. Title from portfolio box. "Written, designed, and produced by Julie Chen ... letter-press printed on various papers using photopolymer plates...produced in an edition of 100 copies."--Colophon, boxtop verso. "Full Circle is a powerful exploration into the cycles of faith and belief from the first moments of obsession through the experience of deepest doubts, and ultimately passing through the place of peace where the mind and heart are (re)united before the endless cycle starts again. A large box-mounted wheel rotates continuously beneath a series of windows to reveal the many stages of the faith cycle with concurrent letterpress images of the human body. One window in the wheel also reveals a tray with compartments containing simple every-day objects that take on varied and potent meanings for each individual reader as they attempt to connect or reconcile the complex spiritual world in their imaginations with the material reality before them. Three drawers open from a slot in the outer tray, cradling pop-up diagrams which act as three checkpoints along the cycle. One of Chen’s most advanced book structures to date, the ingenious wheel is not only a marvel of book craft but also an opportunity for a level of self-exploration leading the reader toward the realization that meaning may be encountered within the process of seeking."--Flying Fish website. Operating instructions mounted inside boxtop. Issued as a rotating wheel with pull-out drawers in a silk-covered box. Library has copy no. 22, signed by the artist. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Leavings
Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[24] pages : color illustrations. Illustrated card stock in accordion fold format, with mounted text, illustrated within cutout mats, and artifacts attached to baggage labels that are inserted in pockets of some of the panels. Issued in cloth-covered box (18 x 13 x 5 cm) with diapered lid and tie; colophon appears inside box. Some of the "leavings" are scraps of paper cut away to construct Julie Chen's book, "Life time." Letterpress printed; lasercut elements. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Life Time
Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 item : color illustrations. Poem. Caption title. Printed on a series of 8 concentric paper discs attached by paper hinges in accordion fold format, designed to be read through a center hole when the construction is fully extended. Issued in a decorated paper box (80 x 80 x 23 mm.) with hinged glass window lid ; colophon pasted inside bottom of box. Edition limited to 100 copies, numbered and signed by the artist. Library has copy no. 34. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
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Ode to a grand staircase (for four hands)
Julie Chen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 29 pages, pages cut in layers to resemble a staircase. "Ode to a Grand Staircase (For Four Hands) is a visual dialog created by Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum, who found their inspiration in the work of composer Erik Satie. The text is derived from the musical directives and silent librettos which accompanied his scores. Thanks to Anna Sacramento for production assistance and to Claudia Wober for the translation. We dedicate this book to the memory of two men, Peter Chen and David Tetenbaum, whose lives inspired the music in our own"--Colophon. "The story in this book comes from The March of the Grand Staircase, composed by Erik Satie in 1914.."--Box lining paper. Letterpress printed cut card panels attached to concertinas on both sides creating two spines. Pages are cut in layers to resemble a staircase and open from the center in the fashion of french doors. Issued in cloth-covered drop-spine box, with magnetic closure. Limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the artists.