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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Daily mirror : variante der als 'Quadratbuch' bel de Jong in Hilversum 1961 erschienen Mappe
Dieter Roth, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
462 pages : chiefly ill. (some color) ; 23 cm. "Vorwort zur ersten ausgabe (aus einem brief von dieter rot an den herausgeber Pieter Brattinga)"--page preceding p. 1. / "Foreword to the first edition (from a letter from Dieter Rot to the editor Pieter Brattinga)" - page preceding p. 1.
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Nixon / Hitler
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Silkscreened Anti-Vietnam War Protest poster revealing Hitler behind President Richard Nixon mask.
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Recycle Nixon
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Green Ecology Flag printed on computer printout paper.
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Student Response to President Rantoul's Statement Regarding the Demands for More Financial Aid April 16, 1970
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Student Response to President Rantoul's Statement Regarding the Demands for More Financial Aid including the proposal to form a Student-Faculty senate.
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Paintings Hung on Chain Link Fencing
Robert O. Thornton, RISD Museum Photographer and RISD Archives
Raid the Icebox 1 with Andy Warhol exhibition installation negative of paintings hung on chain link fencing.
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Poesia concreta : Indirizzi concreti, visuali e fonetici. | Concrete poetry: concrete addresses, visual and phonetic.
Carlo Belloli, Ernesto L. Francalanci, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
155 p. ill. 23 cm. Esposizione a cura di Dietrich Mahlow e Arrigo Lora-Totino. Ca' Giustinian, Sala delle Colonne, 25 settembre-10 ottobre 1969. (Exhibition curated by Dietrich Mahlow and Arrigo Lora-Totino. Ca 'Giustinian, Sala delle Colonne, 25 September-10 October 1969.) On cover: Mostra di poesia concreta. (Exhibition of concrete poetry.) At head of title: La Biennale di Venezia. (The Venice Biennale.) Catalog by Carlo Belloli, Ernesto L. Francalanci.
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PROUDLY CARRY THE BANNER OF THE GREAT LENIN FOR GENERATIONS! (ГОРДО НЕСУТ ПОКОЛЕНИЯ ЗНАМЯ ВЕЛИКОГО ЛЕНИНА!)
Fleet Library and Visual + Material Resources
[left:] Soviet Power for the Soviet Motherland! / СОВЬТОВЬ ВЛАСТЬ ЗА ЗА СOВЕТСКУЮ РОДИНУ!
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Twentysix gasoline stations
Edward Ruscha, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume, 45 pages. "First edition, 1963, 400 numbered copies; Second edition, 1967, 500 unnumbered copies; Third edition, 1969, 3000 unnumbered copies; The Cunningham Press, Alhambra, California."--Title-page verso.
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Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd., Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner
Seth Siegelaub, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
26 pages : illus. "Published 1 July 1969." Cover title. Catalog of an exhibition held July, August, September 1969. Text in English, French and German.
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Student Administration Communication Proposal, 1969
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Student Administration Communication Proposal.
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"Hit Them Hard and Low: You May Not Be in this Game Long," RISD Paper Vol.1, No.1, October 13, 1969
John Torres and RISD Archives
Article from the RISD Paper, Vol. 1, No.1, October 1969 student newspaper, page 2. John Torres was hired in 1969 as the Director fo the Third World Program, RISD's first administrator in charge of recruiting Black students.
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Rhode Island School of Design Faculty Exhibition 1968
RISD Archives
Poster for a exhibition of faculty artwork at the RISD Museum of Art.
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XII Exhibition of Paintings, Graphics and Drawings.
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Marek Freudenreich
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Exhibition of Contemporary French Paintings
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Hubert Hilscher
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Teatr Narodowy: Namiestnik, Rolf Hochhuth (The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth, National Theater)
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Waldemar Swierzy
Poster for Rolf Hochhuth's 1963 play "The Deputy" [also known as "The Representative"], performed at the National Theater in Warsaw.
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Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art
Daniel Robbins
Since 1966, when its first acquisitions of modem Latin American art were exhibited and published, the Nancy Sayles Day Collection has continued to provide the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design with its greatest opportunity for participating in the adventure of the present.
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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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Somebody's Done For
David Goodis, Visual + Material Resources, and Fleet Library
Gift of Richard N. Hurley.
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Days of Education, Books and Press, May 1967
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Jan Mlodozeniec
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I Ogolnopolska Wystawa Pamiatec (Polish National Exhibition of Souvenirs)
Fleet Library, Visual + Material Resources, and Waldemar Swierzy
Poster advertising an exhibition of folk art and 'souvenirs', organized by Cepelia, the Corporation of the Souvenir Industry, Art Gallery MDM, Warsaw, July 1967.
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The Educated Eye II, The Dalton School, Children and God LP Records
Lou Dorfsman, CBS Corporate Entertainment and News Divisions, and Tony Schwartz
CBS Television Division Education Department Teaching Supplement.
The Educated Eye II and Children and God movable record cover, [early 1970s?] ...record cover bearing the title The Educated Eye II [...] containing Tony Schwartz's vinyl record, Children and God. The cover, illustrated with black-and-white photographs taken by Ken Heyman at the Dalton School in New York City, consists of flaps that can be unfolded and reassembled into a three- dimensional "house" or "school" building Illustrated instructions for assembling the building are provided on the inside of the front cover flap, along with notes about Heyman's photographs and Schwartz's recording by Dalton headmaster Donald Barr. – Description from The Library of Congress Tony Schwartz Collection Finding Aid .
Waniga gift includes two copies of Schwartz's Children and God LP record, one intact, one with significant chipping on edge. Includes buildable house, two records, and liner notes booklet that unfolds into a poster of a child painting on the floor. Liner notes read:
"Every minute of a child's life is in itself an act of creation. A child's great work of art is the adult he becomes – himself at thirty – and he prepares for his masterpiece by making many apprentice selves and journeyman selves. That preparation is going on busily in every corner of any school. This album is our attempt to convey some glimpses of that preparation at the Dalton School.
The pictures are by Ken Heyman. An anthropologist of the camera as well as a poet of the camera, he has photographed in every part of the world those fleeting, profound stances and grimaces which reveal the ways in which children and adults think of themselves, and think of the human world around them. The little eager selves, each of them a button-nosed cosmos, which he has photographed at Dalton make up the portrait of a school – the portrait of more than one school: many are the portrait of what a school tries to do.
The record, called "Children and God," sets Dalton in the context of New York City. Tony Schwartz, the extraordinary pictorialist-in-sound who produced it, writes:" 'Children and God' was recorded during a three-and-a-half-month period in all sections of New York City. The children are speaking at home and in their schools, both private and public ... children of all faiths and no faith. Children of the Dalton School are represented along with children of many other schools. Some parents may feel that their children should not hear the differing thoughts, while other parents feel 'Children and God' is a wonderful way to open a discussion of religion and show how each child may have his own ideas."
Donald Barr, Headmaster
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Every building on the sunset strip
Edward Ruscha, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume unpaged.
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Pop Art One
D. Herzka, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
5 pages, 16 unnumbered pages; 27 leaves of plates : black and white illustrations, portraits. On cover: Armed Services edition Fighting forces series. Text on pages [2]-[4] of cover. "The National Army arts contest, sponsored by the Special Services Division, Army Service Forces, produced 215 winning examples of painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. These were exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1945. The entire group is reproduced in this book." --page [2] of cover "This is a complete pictorial record of the exhibition, 'Soldier Art,' held at the National Gallery of Art .. from July 4 to September 4, 1945."--page [4] of cover. Offset printed. On upper left-hand corner of cover "739" Book designed by Paul McPharlin. Side stapled binding. Gift of Claudia Covert.
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Le Petit Chaperon Rouge
Warja Honegger-Lavater, Special Collections, and Fleet Library
1 volume (41 unnumbered] leaves) : chiefly color illustrations (lithographs) ;. "(...) une imagerie d'après un conte de Perrault"--Title page verso. Accordion-folded pages (on a strip 16 x 435 cm folded to 16 x 11 cm) attached to dark red cloth boards; white paper title label printed in olive green affixed to upper board; in matching red cloth slipcase with green and white printed paper label on front. Includes key to ideogramatic characters in French (pages [1]-[2]). Artist's book by Swiss graphic artist and designer Warja Lavater, in which she retells the classic fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm with symbols rather than words or pictures. The images, composed of colored circles and rectangles, were never intended to merely "illustrate" the texts of Perrault and the Grimms, but rather to represent a "re-writing" or "réécriture" using visual codes or pictograms as graphic representations of linguistic elements, which would allow the spectator/reader to approach the story from a personal point of view. Included is a legend listing the meaning of each symbol; for example, a red dot represents Red Riding Hood, a black circle, the wolf, a brown rectangle the grandmother's house. Originally issued in matching red cloth slipcase with green and white printed paper label on front. This copy is housed in the clear lucite slipcase that predates the cloth slipcase? Printed on front side only.
