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Artists' books

Rhode Island School of Design

2005

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Terminal Home, Marcia Ciro, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Terminal Home, Marcia Ciro, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

3 folded sheets : color illustrations. Title from box. In oval shaped cloth wrap box (18 x 13 x 5 cm) with metal clasp. Photographs and text printed with archival ink on Moab paper. Limited edition of 8 copies. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of the artist. RISD Alumna, BFA, GD, 1977. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.


Nightfall Faces, Carolyn Leigh, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Nightfall Faces, Carolyn Leigh, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

drum leaf binding with hidden built up compartment holding BB's. Enclosed in a collaged and painted wrapping envelope, held with woven ribbon. Book closed with wrapper; book closed with wrapper open; interior spreads; back cover; cover. Visions of a primitive ritual dance performed around a fire are evoked through these images of tribal masks. Rhythmic sounds can be made by shaking the book like a maraca.


Alluvium, Mare Blocker, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Alluvium, Mare Blocker, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

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


Aggregate Memory, Macy Chadwick, Lisa Onstad, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2005

Aggregate Memory, Macy Chadwick, Lisa Onstad, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

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