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New York To Amsterdam, Selina Houwing, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

Daniel Serra-Badué: Dreamt Reality, University Of Richmond Museums

Exhibition Brochures

Daniel Serra-Badué: Dreamt Reality

1994

Marsh Art Gallery

Introduction

Daniel Serra-Badué is an artist of uncompromising vision who dwells upon memory as if it were tangible. "All that we see or seem - Is but a dream within a dream," wrote Edgar Allan Poe , and Serra-Badué seeks to place his audience within that dream. His evocative images compel us toward experiences that combine described reality with surreal impossibilities and dreamlike remembrances. Serra-Badué's world is a world of dreamt reality.

The lithographs in this exhibition, ranging in date from 1964 to 1992, demonstrate Serra-Badué's mastery of clarity of line, exactitude …

Bhakti, Joe Quackenbush, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Senses

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

There Were Never, Steven Hoskins, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

Garden Journal, Ellen Dessloch, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Nature

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class, Printed Books.

Index To The Encyclopedia, Scott Mccarney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

perfect bound with soft cover, cover image foil stamped; cover; interior page and spreads. This book, though an artist book in itself, functions as an Index to "The Encyclopedia" a separate but related sculptural bookwork.

Measure Up, Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Ruth Laxson Artist Book Archive

[26] pages : ill. (some color) Cover title. "This book is no. 6"--Colophon. Signed by the artist. "Intaglio, aquatint, and chine colle - with typography. Printed summer 1994."--Colophon.

You Must Assimilate The Shifts In Perspective, Steven Hoskins, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

India, Falza Khanani, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class.

Keeping Things Whole, Anne Chequer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

14 pages. Title from cover. Edition of ten numbered copies. "Designed by Anne Chequer, Printed Books, RISD, Fall 1984, Text by Mark Strand."--Colophon. Cover and text pages made with heavy black craft paper. Text printed in black on white strips of paper. Accordion fold. This book was completed for Jan Baker's artists' book class. Library has copy no. 2. Gift of Jan Baker.

How To Talk About Art, Miriam Schenitzer, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[22] pages : illus. Printed on double leaves. Printed cloth cover. Printing method: Offset, die cut.

Tea, C, D&C / Cycles Interrupted, Amy Wilson, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[36] pages. "Printed at the Visual Studies Workshop Press .. in an anticipated edition of 500, In February 1994"--Colophon.

A Passage, Buzz Spector, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

case bound in hard cover with silk covered boards; cover; top view of text block; interior pages and spreads, detail; colophon. Book consists of 181 identical pages bound and torn vertically by the artist. The page stubs gradually increase and the resulting text block forms a triangular shape. Content of the text is blurry until the full pages can be completely read. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.

A Hypothetical Analysis Of The Twinkle In Stars: (As Told By A Child To A Teacher), Katherine Ng, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 art work : color illustration. Consists of a single sheet of paper (5 x 64 cm.) folded into a pentagonal shape (9 cm.) that stores five folded paper colored stars (1-2 cm.) permanently constructed in the same manner. "Book structure based on the wishing stars (lucky stars) from Hong Kong. Handset in Centaur, letterpress printed on Mohawk"--Colophon. Library has copy 92 of 100. Initialed by the author. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.

The Body Temple, Laura Davidson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

sculptural, hinged panels unfold to create a 3 dimensional architectural "temple"; exquisite corpse; box exterior; first opening; side views; angled viewss. Classical and Renaissance architects used parts of the human body as metaphors and inspiration for designing buildings.

Reminder: An Open Book Test, Wilber Chip Schilling, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

accordion fold with 2 slipcases, one of which looks like the top of a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. Cover; interior pages, accordions, folded out; detail. Self-guided test to determine personality through color with an underlying suggestion that smoking addiction can be predicted based on psychological testing.