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Plant Out Of Place, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 folded leaf . Cover title. "A special publication from Brain Washing from Phone Towers Information Pamphlets"--page [4] of cover. "Spring 2019 NYC" Pamphlet stitch, interior is printed on single folded sheet. Metal type and linocut printing.

Ref, Shift-Lab, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 container, 15 parts. "REF is an investigation into the erosion of the physical reference area of the library, and the fundamental shift taking place in the way we ask and answer questions. This project was produced by the members of Shift-lab: Katie Baldwin, Denise Bookwalter, Sarah Bryant, Macy Chadwick, and Tricia Treacy. Artists worked individually and collaboratively to produce elements inspired by the traditional components of a physical reference section: Almanac, Atlas, Bibliography, Biographical Dictionary, Chronology, Concordance, Dictionary, Directory, Encyclopedia, Gazetteer, Guidebook, Handbook, Index, Manual, and Yearbook."--Big Jump Press. "As we designed our responses to traditional elements of the …

Wandering Stars, Sara Langworthy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 20 pages. Edition of 33 copies, signed by the artist. Text is letterpress printed. Images printed from multiple layers of collagraph blocks and pressure print templates. The paper is Okawara Handmade. Size and shape of papers varies. Handsewn into black paper cover. This book is made from remnants of the artist's work, "Sidereal," also printed in 2019.

A Single {Frame}, Liya Zhu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 6 pages. Numbered edition of 12 copies. "printed in Caslon Old Style on French paper with watercolor and lino-cuts"--colophon. ".. [Produced] spring 2019 [for] Art 136: The Artist's Book course, taught by Tia Blassingame"--colophon. Combines handset letterpress, linocuts, watercolor, papercutting and an interactive element to express the significance of self."--Scripts Press.

Sidereal, Sara Langworthy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

72 unnumbered pages (some folded) : illustrations "This book is made in its entirety by Sara Langworthy in Iowa City, Iowa"--Colophon. Edition of 35 numbered copies, signed by the artist. "Inspiration came from 'The heavens : an illustrated handbook of popular astronomy" by Amédée Guillemin. All text in Sidereal is excerpted from Guillemin's writing and reassembled here. The star images are drawn from plates presented in The heavens ... The afterword is a direct transcription found on page 311 of the fourth edition"--Colophon. "The images are printed from collagraph blocks paired with pressure print templates"--Colophon. Black, handmade paper over boards, …

Gone Fishin', Asuka Ohsawa, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume : chiefly color illustrations "Written, illustrated, screen-printed, and hand-bound by Asuka Ohsawa in New York, NY, in 2019"--Colophon. "The end sheets were printed by Sun Night Editions in Oakland, CA"--Colophon. "Gone Fishin' began as ... [an] experiment to incorporate the panoramic landscape format of Japanese emaki (narrative hand scroll paintings from the 12th century) into a codex form. During the five month process of drawing and printing, however, the book morphed into a hybrid form that is part emaki, part comics, and part typographic adventure."--colophon. "Screenprinted on Rives Heavyweight paper ... Drum-leaf bound with a drop-spine cover. Edition …

No New Theories, Kameelahjanan Rasheed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

256 unnumbered pages : chiefly black and white illustrations First edition. "Interview by Jessica Lynne"--Colophon "1000 copies"--Colophon "No New Theories builds on Kameelah Janan Rasheed's accretive and associative installation work, bringing together xerox abstractions, poetic text fragments, and found as well as original photography to explore learning and unlearning as a spiritual, socio-political, ecological, and cognitive process. With No New Theories Rasheed freely assembles her own writing, autocorrect algorithms, and Oulipian poems (short texts generated with the help of imposed constraints) alongside visuals drawn from her personal image archive, pop culture, zoological journals, quranic verses, and other sources. The work …

An Alphabetical Accumulation Of Approximate Observations, Kameelahjanan Rasheed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

90 unnumbered pages : illustrations Cover title. Edition of 150. "Bright pink and gritty, An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations serves as a visual A-Z of dissonant experiences, ranging from Cumulative Caskets to Weaponized Watermelon. The pink-speckled texture paired with crude, black cut-out letters enforces a distinctly D-I-Y feel, with the textual centerpieces serving nonsense literature in a brief and digestible form."-- Printed Matter, Inc., viewed December 9, 2020 Pink coated wire spiral binding. Risograph printed.

Decomposition Book, Kelli Anderson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 133 pages. A self-destroying notebook ... 2/3 usable lined sheets and 1/2 lines down the drain. -- author's website.00% recycled (30% post-consumer) paper made in French's hydroelectric-powered mill -- author's website. Small diagram card of the text laid in (4 x 8 cm) Three holes punched through the left-side of the text. Cover has black and white marbled pattern of a composition book. Perfect binding and black cloth over head of text block.

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Pur-Suit, Naima Green, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

54 cards : color portraits. Edition of 2,500. Edition printing number statement from the artist's website. "Pur·suit is a deck of 54 playing cards features queer women, trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people."--colophon card. "Pur-suit is in the interest of queer and trans people, of people of color, and of groups that continue to be marginalized. Made over 9 days between October 2018 and January 2019, these photographs help complete an image of the world that we live in."--colophon card. In playing card box with title, photographer's name, "First Edition ; Made in ROC, Printed by Expert Playing Card Co., …

Book Book / 书书, Myungah Hyon, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 plastic bag, 3 components . Cover title. "Book Book is an instruction book of intro-level bookbinding. Written by Myungah Hyon and illustrated by Yuchen Chang."--Printed Matter. "Edition of 500, Third printing, November 2019"--colophon. Accompanied by notched four-piece cardboard book stand. Stitch bound, exposed adhesive binding. Digital printing. Book and book cradle housed in a clear-plastic backpack with yellow drawstrings.

Prism, Helen Hiebert, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 54 pages . Watermark and hand-stitching on page preceding title page. "A triangular prism is a transparent object, with ends in the shape of a triangle, which separates light that passes through it into the colors of the rainbow." "Helen Hiebert made all the papers in this book by hand. The colored text papers are all 100% premium abaca, colored with aqueous dispersed pigments mixed by Lata Gedala ... The cover is a cotton/abaca pulp blend with a pulp painting in abaca. All text was letterpress printed by Tom Leech at the Press at the Palace of the …

Pot Calling The Kettle Black, Kevin Mccoy, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 28 unnumbered pages. Black people in America have been taxonomized as "savages" or "lazy" and dehumanized by mainstream media which are derivatives of early scientific racism. Back in the 19th century, blackface was used primarily by white performers to demean Black people and as a source of entertainment. The titling of this publication, Pot Calling the Kettle Black, is an idiom used in the Black household to underscore blatant hypocrisy. This publication offers critical observation of the use of blackface and its variations found deeply embedded in cartoons, pop culture, the fashion industry, and beyond.-- Work / Play.

In Today's News: Alpha Males & Women Power, Kaamna Patel, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 46 pages . "Reappropriates images from print media in India to comment on patriarchy and gender roles."--colophon. Title from last page of book. "Image sources : Mumbai Samachar, Janmabhumi, Mumbai Mirror, Mid-day, Times of India, Hyderabad Times." In Todays News: Alpha Males and Women Power is a photobook by Kaamna Patel wherein she appropriates images from print media in India to comment on prevalent patriarchies and pre-determined gender roles. Using the semiotics of images, In Todays News attempts to reveal the dominant ideology of a people at a particular time in their history, while leaving room for the …

Make The Earth Say Beans, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume. Cover title [Edition of 250] Linoleum cut and letterpress prints on paper. Do-si-do binding, instant book format, that unfolds to reveal additional text and illustrations. Enclosed in printed, paper cover. "Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis."--Provided by artist. "Summer 2019 NYC"--back cover.

Fresh Creek, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 folded leaf, 20 pages . "The last pamphlet of 2019 is about: transportation networks, bicycling in the city, the Jamaica Bay Greenway, landfills, Robert Moses, how to get where you need to go, Starrett City and their seaside view, and finally, the Shirley Chisholm State Park out in East New York. It follows a bike ride that I took last fall that I particularly enjoyed."-- artists' website.

The Black Banal, Tony Cokes, Elana Schlenker, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

15 leaves, unbound sheets. Issued in burnt orange cloth-covered portfolio with bright red-pink lettering. Title from portfolio. Portfolio held closed with a yellow elastic band.

"Designed by Tony Cokes and Elana Schlenker. Screeprinted in Ithaca, New York by Kaleb Hunkele. Slipcase produced in Jersey City, New Jersey by Conveyor Editions. Edition of 100. Second Edition"--Colophon, page [3] of portfolio.

The Black Banal, a limited edition, hand silk-screened portfolio, is a graphic blast of found text sourced and sequenced by Tony Cokes. Cokes channels the intense boredom and extreme anger generated by his encounter with the source material into an act …

Bound Tight, Taylor Anna Cox, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : 5 illustrations. Title, book artist's name, place of publication, and number of copies in edition from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers (distributor) website. Edition limited to 32 numbered copies. Text and decorations printed with metalic copper ink. "Letterpress printed on Suede Tex paper with photopolymer plates. Images of historic X-rays taken by Dr. Ludovic O'Followell in 1908 laser printed on Via Vellum papers."--Colophon. "In 1892 Benjamin Orange Flowers [that is, Flower] wrote the critical essay 'Fashion Slaves' chronicling the damaging effects corsets had on the female body. In 1908, the scientist Dr. Ludovic O'Followell took x-rays of …

24-Hour Armed Security, Josh Macphee, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

16 screenprints : color ; 1 pamphlet ([12] pages : color illustrations ; . Pound the pavement ; #21 A set of 16 screenprints housed in a hand cut and assembled enclosure (40 x 32 cm) accompanied by a 12 page stapled booklet. Limited edition of 20, signed by the artist. Library has copy no. 3. Numbered and signed on the verso of the enclosure.

The Radiant Republic, Sarah Bryant, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 box, 5 volumes, 9 concrete forms, 1 sheet of glass. "In The Radiant Republic, language from Plato and Le Corbusier has been combined to create a narrative in five parts. Each part is bound separately, and features a portion of an interlocking landscape with no fixed beginning or end. The project is housed in an elaborate enclosure featuring elements of wood, cement, and glass. Letterpress printed and completed in 2019."-Publisher website. Box constructed with finger jointed, pressed-wood with pale green cloth lid. Lid has image of three icosahedron forms. Box contains 5 pamphlet-stitched volumes wrapped together. Each volume consists …

Solastalgia, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 170 pages. "Solastalgia" is a term coined over a decade ago by Australian professor of sustainability Glenn Albrecht, which he defined as "the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediƯate assault.. a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at home." He originally described this emotion as being familiar to people who lived in sacrifice zones-- lands decimated by open-pit mining, or clear-cut logging. But it is quickly becoming, in an era defined by climate change, a universal human experience.--artists' website. Printed on a …

Fashioning, Denise Bookwalter, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

20 unnumbered pages : illustrations Limited edition of 32 numbered copies. Title from colophon. "To read the book please put your hands into the cover handles and open your arms."--Colophon "Fashioning is the second book collaboration between Denise Bookwalter and Lee Emma Running. In Fashioning the artists continue their work with their intimate relationship with clothing. Clothing retains the story of the wearer. In Fashioning the artists capture their relationship with clothing by making rubbings of embellishments found on personally significant garments. The drawings directly capture a moment in the life of the textile. The textile contains its own evidence …

Stratum, Jihae Kwon, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

8 unnumbered leaves. Cover title. Edition of 8, signed by the artist. "Inspired by Queen Liliʻuokalani's song Kuʻu Pua I Paoakalani, Stratum is about the importance of land and soil from the perspective of land and soil. Written, designed, and bound by Jihae Kwon ... February 2019"--Colophon. Wooden board covers, title laser cut into cover board. Stab, sewn binding. All leaves laser cut text and designs. Glassine papers bound in front and back. Colophon written in pencil. Library has copy 6.

Shadow. Canto Three Incidental Music, Marlene Maccallum, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. Cover title. Edition limited to 16 numbered copies, signed. Text appears blind-printed at the head and letterpress printed at the foot of some leaves. "'Shadow: Incidental Music' is the third canto of the ongoing project Shadow, a book work variation on the long poem format. 'Incidental Music' presents itself initially as a straightforward codex but upon opening reveals a cascade of nested accordion-fold structures. Naturally occurring patterns of light and shadow create cyclical but transient intrusions into interior spaces. Sunlight progresses through the time and space of the pages with a brief shadow-play balancing-act …

I Sit And Sew, Lise Melhorn-Boe, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations . Limited edition of 12 copies signed and numbered by the artist. Pages sewn in fold cloth wrapper. Set in Goudy Old Style. Screen printed. "Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's poem was published in Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (1927)".--Cf. Colophon. "Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson's poem is in the voice of a woman, during WW1, who wishes she were doing something more active to help the soldiers, rather than sitting and sewing. The book's format is modelled on a WW1 'housewife,' a soldier's sewing kit. As it unfolds, the viewer will find sewing tools …

Vasilisa And The Witch's Fire, Joanna Robson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 4 pages. Title from cardboard slipcase cover. Pattern cloth over cover boards. Lasercut silhouette illustrations, with pages that fold out concertina style. In paper box, 14 x 14 x 2 cm. Certificate of authenticity ([6] pages ; illustrations ; 10 x 10 cm) includes instructions on how to display the book. "A papercut re-telling of Vasilisa the Beautiful's flight from the hut of Baba Yaga the Witch"--Certificate of authenticity. "Book no. 16 of 30 was completed by Joanna Robson in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on 11/1/2019"--Certificate of authenticity.

Urgency Reader, Paul Soulellis, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 252 pages. "Urgency Reader is a quick assembling of texts, risograph printed in Pawtucket, RI, and bound as a book at the last minute to launch at the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery on December 6, 2019. Suggested topics from the open call included: urgency, craft, queerness, gender, transformation, kinship, race, survival.."--cover wrapper.

Grass, Kim Su-Yong, Xianlu Yi, Brother Anthony, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 12 pages. Limited to of 50 copies. Accompanied by folded sheet booklet ([6] pages ; folded to 13.5 x 10.5 cm) "Kim Su-yong, a poet who explored love and freedom as poetic and political ideals"--page [3] of cover. Wooden hardcover. Cover has blind carved designs. Title and author information embossed into covers. Accordion, flag book binding. "Kim su-yong is one of the most exceptional poets of modern Korea. He died at the relatively young age of 48 in 1968, but his poetry has become a symbol of freedom and revolution during the democratization of Korea. His last poem, …