On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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Visionaire 3: Erotica
Stephan Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos, and Greg Foley
88 unnumbered pages : illustrations + 1 case
Title from case cover "Visionaire no. 3, fall 1991 / by Stephen Gan, James Kaliardos, Cecilia Dean. Contributors ... Greg Foley"--Title sheet "This is no. ... published in a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies"--Bottom of case Unbound photographs, prints, and prose, all printed on papers of varying color and texture, laid in case Includes 'The rhythm of fashion: the fall 1991 collections' / story and photographs by Bill Cunningham Contributor list: Andrew Brucker, Antonio Lopez, Bernard Figueroa, Bill Cuningham, Elaine Gan, Eric Rhein, Fran Collin, Gigi Stoll, Greg Foley, Gregory Park, Jean-Paul Goude, James White, Juan Botas, Maison Martin Margiela, Mats Gustafson, Michael Capotosto, Michael O'Brien, Noelle Hoeppe, Ruben Toledo, Steven Meisel, Lady Bunny, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos, Stephen Gan
"Jean-Paul Goude showed us his sexy drawings – naughty "doodles" stashed away in his carnets intimes. Also around that time, Mats Gustafson showed us a couple of the first male nudes he had ever done. And so the idea for 3 EROTICA was born. To us, the brown corrugated box sleeve held shut by a black elastic band represent a certain rawness and reminded us of those raunchy magazines that arrive in the mail in a plain brown-paper envelope. Mats also provides the "illustrated" writing for the cover. Inside, the credits are written out on a rickety old typewriter." -- publsiher's website https://visionaireworld.com
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Visionaire 1: Innocent: Spring
Stephan Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos, Greg Foley, and Bill Cunningham
[64] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations (some color)
Contents include mix of individual sheets and small volumes printed a mix of velumn and several that different types of paper. Photographs, prints, a poem, a recipe, design sketches, a fashion show report ("Opening the door to the millennium" by Bill Cunningham), and a dialogue with artists Pierre et Gilles, all printed on papers of varying color and texture, laid in a paper portfolio.
"This is no. [blank] published in a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies"--Page [2] of portfolio.
Library has copy no. 60. Laid in is a business card of Stephen Gan and a newspaper cutout notice of the publication, written in ink, Gregory Foley clipping. Gift of Gregory E. Foley, AP 1991.
"1 SPRING is our first issue. We were inspired, in part, by Irving Penn's book of flowers, but convincing an artist like Penn to let a fledgling publication like ours print even one of his images proved impossible. No two pages are printed on the same paper stock because we used all the printer's remnants. There are images on vellum, and artwork, like Ruben Toledo's insect story, done on plain old brown kraft paper. Bill Cunningham contributes our first fashion report. The issue is unbound (like the albums of Paul Poiret, by Paul Iribe and Georges Lepape), the loose pages forming a sort of folio of tear sheets of favorite images." -- publsiher's website https://visionaireworld.com
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Visionaire 4: Heaven
Stephan Gan, Cecilia Dean, James Kaliardos, Ruben Toledo, and Martin Margiela
[42] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) + 1 portfolio
Title from front and back of portfolio In title, "Heaven" precedes "Visionaire." "Visionaire / by Stephen Gan, James Kaliardos, Cecilia Dean ... Thanks to ... Gregory Foley"--Page [1] "This is no. [blank] published in a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies"--Second panel of portfolio Photographs, prints, prose, and poetry, all printed on papers of varying color and texture, laid in a paper portfolio First leaf of plates is a piece of embroidered fabric (28 x 21 cm.) with printed label on verso: Heaven / by Todd Oldham. Hand embroidery by Lalit Ghera. Visionaire no. 4. Winter 1991-1992 Second leaf of plates is a sealed plastic bag (28 x 21 cm.) filled with white paper "confetti" made with a hole punch; includes fragment of a printed page in French, which mentions "des confettis blancs." Portfolio is a sheet (29 x 69 cm.) folded into three panels, each 29 x 23 cm
"The work of the Saints of Pierre et Gilles makes up the backbone – and the cover – of 4 HEAVEN, a precious issue. Todd Oldham’s embroidered-silk clouds, for example, were made in India, and we then cut them up together in his New York showroom. Certainly, the surprise of the issue came from Martin Margiela. He did not want to reveal to us what his contribution was going to be. One day the doorbell rang, we answered it only to find four huge boxes that had been sent via FedEx from Paris. Inside were a thousand bags of white confetti-one for each copy of HEAVEN. We could not have imagined a nicer Christmas present."-- publsiher's website https://visionaireworld.com
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7 Days as a Surrealist Embryo : or, The liberation of Loplop (Bird-inferior)
Brian Schorn, Fleet Library, Special Collections, and Jan Baker
This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.
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Benson Hall Gallery Schedule: Spring 1990
RISD Archives
Poster for the schedule of events at the Benson Hall Gallery.
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Collection 90
RISD Archives
Poster for the 1990 student Apparel Design Department show held at the RISD Auditorium.
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The Photo League: A Progressive Era in American Photography 1936-1951 / Boston College Museum of Art
RISD Archives
Poster for an exhibition of photographs from the time period 1936-1951, shown at the Boston College Museum. Illustrated by Aaron Siskind's, "Father Divine Movement, Harlem Document Group Project (c. 1937).
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This book is an interpretation of a music piece written in September of 1990.
Rafael Attias, Fleet Library, Special Collections, and Jan Baker
This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.
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The Nineties: Fin de Siecle or Vision of the Future? Faculty Symposium, 1990 | Panel II: Art in the Age of Information
Deborah Bright, Gary Metz, Hari Nair, Maria Tulokas, Don Keefer, and Archives
3:30 pm - 5:15 pm. The second panel will continue with a look at "Art in the Age of Information," during which Hari Nair, director of academic computing at RISD, will address the problems and possibilities of integrating computer technology into the creative process. Maria Tulokas, head of the textile design department, will explain her own use of computer applications, while philosopher/ musician Don Keefer of the liberal arts division will discuss the persistence of binary thinking he sees being exacerbated by computer -over• technology. Cary Metz, head of the photography department, will moderate the discussion.
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The Nineties: Fin de Siecle or Vision of the Future? Faculty Symposium, 1990 | Panel III: Social Responsibility and the Place of the Artist in Society
Deborah Bright, David Porter, Nade Haley, Benny Andrews, and RISD Archives
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm. Following an hour-long reception that will allow participants to visit the Museum to see the faculty work on view in the the RISD Faculty Exhibition 1990 biennial, the symposium will move on to its most controversial and topical segment, the one addressing "Social Responsibility and the Place of the Artist in Society." To grapple with this most fundamental of issues, Bright has rounded up Assistant Professor of Illustration David Porter ('69) to advocate for restrictive guidelines for public arts funding and Nade Haley of the freshman foundation faculty to argue against such restrictions. Special guest Benny Andrews, former director of the NEA's Visual Arts Program, will lend his own perspective as a black artist, critic and teacher as well as a strong advocate for community-based art and cultural expression. Dennis Congdon of the painting department will moderate this session.
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The Nineties: Fin de Siecle or Vision of the Future? Faculty Symposium, 1990 | Panel I: Looking Ahead/Looking Back: Approaching the Year 2000
Deborah Bright, Catherine Seigel, Scott Cook, Susan Vander Closter, Mary Anne Staniszewski, and Archives
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm. The first panel deals with "whether or not we are at a fin de l'epoque – the conceptual culmination of an era – and if so, what phenomena and consciousness might characterize it," Bright says. In "Looking Ahead/Looking Back: Approaching the Year 2000" historian Scott Cook will explore the fin de sitcle concept as an historical phenomenon and discuss its usefulness to our times. English professor Susan Vander Closter will investigate what she calls "the state of cultural trauma" in contemporary literature and relate it to the recent controversy over "obscene" art. Art historian and critic Mary Anne Staniszewski will wrap up the first series of presentations by raising questions about the limitations of contemporary visual arts education at the university level and suggesting useful alternatives. A discussion led by Cathy Seigel of the English department will follow.
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Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Book
Norman Clayton, Fleet Library, Special Collections, and Jan Baker
This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.
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Patience Hope Content Virtue
Jane Grigg Cleary, Fleet Library, Special Collections, and Jan Baker
This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.
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Ain't Nothin' Like Fuckin' Moonshine!
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Cover for Ain't Nothin' Like Fuckin' Moonshine!, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Selected curiosities from the 1902 Edition of The Sears, Roebuck Catalogue
Special Collections and Fleet Library
Cover for Selected curiosities from the 1902 Edition of The Sears, Roebuck Catalogue, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek, The Next Generation : Season One
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Joshua Chapman
Cover for A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek, The Next Generation : Season One, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Our Noise : Short Stories for the Twentynothing Generation
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Jeff Gomez
Cover for Our Noise : Short Stories for the Twentynothing Generation, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Reduction
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Tom Kaczynski
Cover for Reduction, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Reduction
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Tom Kaczynski
Cover for Reduction, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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Reduction
Special Collections, Fleet Library, and Tom Kaczynski
Cover for Reduction, from the RISD Library Zine Collection.
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On an Average Day in America
Tania E. Fine, Fleet Library, Special Collections, and Jan Baker
This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.
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A on Cieagle Wisi (And He is still Hanging)
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Wiesław Wałkuski
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Little Red Riding Hood : A Pop-up Book with Action Characters
Kees Moerbeek, Peter Seymour, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
[10] p. : col. ill. Adapted by Peter Seymour ; illustration, design and paper engineering by Kees Moerbeek. Stanley F. Moss Pop-Up Book Collection, Gift of Eugene B. Navias.
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Ste. Ostrich in Manhattan: the visitations of a martyr
Lois Morrison, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. "Ste. Ostrich ... was written and illustrated by Lois Morrison. It was designed and printed by Julie Chen with the assistance of Elizabeth McDevitt ... In an edition of 125 copies this is number: 70." Gift of Freshman Foundation. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
