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The Morse Dry Dock Dial, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Morse Dry Dock Dial, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 31 x 46 cm folded to 17 x 13 cm. Cover title. Edition of 250. "The Morse Dry Dock Dial is the Spring 2020 Informational Pamphlet, taking its name from the magazine published by the Morse Dry Dock Company, my great-grandfather's employer in the early years of the twentieth century. The original publication reported on the lives and activities of their community of workers, many of which lived in the neighborhood, what was then called Bay Ridge and is now named Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This pamphlet talks about my family's history in the neighborhood, …
Black Is Every Color, Alisa Banks, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Black Is Every Color, Alisa Banks, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
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 …
A Cloud Index, Spencer Finch, Special Collections, Fleet Library
A Cloud Index, Spencer Finch, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
60 folded sheets : illustrations. "The sixty pastel drawings that comprise this book were originally created for a public art project at the new Elizabeth Line station at Paddington in London. The entire work, titled "A Cloud Index," presents 27 different types of clouds within a single composition. The drawings were scanned and then printed onto 180 clear glass panels (each 2 meters x 6 meters) and installed in the canopy of the station. The pages of this book can be assembled and attached to a wall to re-create the entire artwork, at a reduced scale. The number printed on …
Avalanche Safety Book, Casey Gardner, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Avalanche Safety Book, Casey Gardner, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations Title from cover; imprint from colophon. "Written, drawn, printed and bound by the artist"--Colophon. Limited edition of 50 copies. Letterpress printed accordion-bound folios with pamphlet-stitched interior booklets. Printed on a Vandercook 4 with photo-polymer plates and carved linoleum. Two digitally printed, hand-bound fascicles. Covers are cloth-cornered davey board. Typefaces: Cheltenham, Kabel, Gill Sans, Futura, and Bodoni. Paper: Moulin du Gué, Zerkall Book, and Curious Metallic. "This book, through a story of two climbers, explores human vulnerability and vision in navigating physical and existential risks. The story reflects our era of environmental peril and the blind …
Don't Cut Your Hair It's Beautiful, Kellee Morgado, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Don't Cut Your Hair It's Beautiful, Kellee Morgado, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
3 volumes : color illustrations Edition of 50. Each volume has 24 unnumbered pages, bound so that the reader can lift the center illustration to reveal a larger illustration within. The gatherings are unopened throughout, obscuring text and illustrations. In a cloth-covered portfolio, held closed with a printed paper band. "The work questions personal rituals surrounding hair, constructs associated with hair in Western culture, and the shift in value when hair is unattached to bodies. In this ongoing inquiry I explore my own experience with femininity, womanhood, my relationship with my own hair, and how it conforms to or disrupts …
Baldio, I.E. S̆Egota, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Baldio, I.E. S̆Egota, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
20 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations Title from cover. "Dibugado por I.E. S̆egota para Concordia, MX, en la ciudad de Qro., en el año de la pandemia."--back cover. Signed in pencil by the artist on back cover. Accordion book, front side has one continuos illustration screen printed in green, orange, and purple on beige paper. Illustration on verso in blue on beige.
Delirium, Philip Zimmermann, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Delirium, Philip Zimmermann, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
60 unnumbered pages : color illustrations Printed by archival inkjet in a numbered edition of 30 copies, signed. "Delirium is a book born of the Covid-19 pandemic and time spent in lock-down. The text uses a paragraph from the 1866 masterpiece "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Towards the end of the book, his protagonist, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, has a feverish dream. This strangely prophetic text is quoted and used as the narrative line in this book. Highly manipluated images of jewel-like approximations of the corona virus appeared all over the web in the first few months of the pandemic …