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Full-Text Articles in Art and Design
Cacaform Birds, Yingchun Zhu, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Cacaform Birds, Yingchun Zhu, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
Third chapter (Key) is sealed. "The book contains three parts, the first containing doctored photographs that show these birds interacting with sepia cityscapes, alternately goggled at and overlooked by the passers-by. The second introduces us to each individual species through poetic verse, while the third section must be carefully unsealed by the reader in order to reveal how the Cacaform Birds came into being."--Publisher's description. Step into the world of Cacaform Birds - a world that exists a half-pace to one side of our own, at the confluence of imagination, art and reality. Within these pages we meet the 'Glowerspite' …
When Is Now, Alisa C. Banks, Special Collections, Fleet Library
When Is Now, Alisa C. Banks, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 cylindrical box . Edition limited to 4 numbered copies signed by the artist. The wooden cylindrical box contains a sculptural representation of tightly curled hair. Text printed on paper is attached to the inside of the lid. The text is reproduced on an included pamphlet. "'When Is Now' questions the appropriate time to expect equal footing and humane action for marginalized populations. The basis of the text was conceived during a time of personal upheaval that coincided with the 2016 US presidential election and speaks to feelings of shock, denial, immobility, anger, helplessness, and sorrow concerning the ensuing political …
Spectacular Vernacular, Jessica Charlesworth, Tim Parsons
Spectacular Vernacular, Jessica Charlesworth, Tim Parsons
Artists' Books
1 volume, 152 pages . Living in a Material World, Parsons & Charlesworth at the Chicago Cultural Center / B. David Zarley -- Spectacular Vernacular / Parsons & Charlesworth -- Index of works -- Observe, Experiment, Speculate, Parsons & Charlesworth in conversation -- Agile Ciphers for Cultural Truths : a consideration of objects and their meanings / Lee Ann Norman. "Our Spectacular Vernacular artists book summarizes and presents our solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2016. Along with many photos of the exhibition and the process of its creation, the book contains Agile Ciphers for Cultural Truths, a …
Hair, Sun Young Kong, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Hair, Sun Young Kong, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume. Title from colophon. Title on cover in Korean. "Embroidery using hair"--colophon. Korean text is embroidered. Accordion folded, self cover. Limited edition of 20 + 1 artist's proof. Text in Korean, English translation on colophon.
Curio, Melanie Mauro, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Curio, Melanie Mauro, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume. "Curio was designed and printed by Melanie Mauro at The University of the Arts and Heirloom Press. The text is adapted from the 1868 collection of articles, Modern Women and What Is, and Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening". This book is printed using letterpress, screenprint and lithography on paper handmade by the artist" --Colophon. Includes inkblot imagery; some screen printed using black thermo-chromic ink that turns white when heated. Edition of 5, signed and numbered by the artist. Sewn on seven raised cords and bound in full white (alum-tawed) leather. Curio is a collection of "quotidian objects" that …
Reading Closed Books, Sam Winston, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Reading Closed Books, Sam Winston, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
3 volumes. Title from slipcase cover. "This is the first printing.. in an edition of 34 copies with 5 artist's proofs"--Colophon. "This book is printed using a HP Indigo press with GRACoL and Fogra certified HP Indigo Ink.. Hand binding by Haein Song.. Body text is set in Dante MT Pro and Pitch Sans. Book design by Matthew Appleton at Modern Activity with additional design assistance from Pietro Martini. Photography by Andy Sewell and Sam Winston"--Absorbing Light colophon. "Each book has a unique handwritten colophon and title page -- whilst these words were being written the sound of a printer …
Little Red Witch : Little Red Riding Hood By The Brothers Grimm, Normandie Syken, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Little Red Witch : Little Red Riding Hood By The Brothers Grimm, Normandie Syken, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 58 x 63 cm. Adapted, retold, and illustrated by Normandie Syken. Library #7 of 10. Hardcover book has thirty three woodcuts and the text is screen printed. The cover is bound with red asashi book cloth and the image is a two colored screen print and hand painted on top. The book is bound with a stab binding and has custom endpapers. The story is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set during the Salem witch trials.
Your Name Is Safe, You Can Rest Now, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Your Name Is Safe, You Can Rest Now, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
5 folding panels . "Your Name is Safe, You Can Rest Now is a letter to my great-uncle Rikio who died in WWII explaining the impact that his death had on our family for generations. Every household in my family had this photograph of his funeral on their butsudan, a Buddhist altar. Rikio fought in the US Army Infantry 442nd Regiment which consisted almost entirely of second-generation Japanese Americans, and holds the record of being the most highly decorated unit in US Military History. While Rikio and others in Hawaii fought for the US, our family members on the mainland …
Kin, Mark Dorf, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Kin, Mark Dorf, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 16 pages. "kin is an artist book that explores the human perspective, what it would mean to be able to move outside of this perspective, and the paradoxes that are contained in this proposed point of view and gesture. The title opens with the final paragraph from Darwin's On the Origin of Species along with a reworking of the same text by the artist that takes on a less humanist angle: an angle that that embraces co-emergence and making kin with our surroundings (in the words of Donna Haraway) rather than the "war of nature" and the hierarchical …