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Weirdo, No. 24, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Editor), Special Collections, Fleet Library Dec 1988

Weirdo, No. 24, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Editor), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

28 volumes : illustrations. Frequency: quarterly. Publication dates: No. 1 (spring, 1981), ceased with no. 28 (summer, 1993). Editor: R. Crumb. With issue #10, P. Bagge became editor; with issue #18, Crumb's wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb became editor (except for issue #25, which was again edited by Bagge).Color illustrations on covers, b&w interiors. Early issues of Weirdo reflect Crumb's interests at the time outsider art, fumetti, Church of the SubGenius-type anti-propaganda and assorted "weirdness." It also introduced artists such as Peter Bagge, Dori Seda and Dennis Worden. No. 24 Contributors: Robert Crumb, Cathy Millet, Phoebe Gloeckner, Bill Griffith, Justin Green, Dori …

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Weirdo, No. 23, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Editor), Special Collections, Fleet Library Jun 1988

Weirdo, No. 23, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Editor), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

28 volumes : illustrations. Frequency: quarterly. Publication dates: No. 1 (spring, 1981), ceased with no. 28 (summer, 1993). Editor: R. Crumb. With issue #10, P. Bagge became editor; with issue #18, Crumb's wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb became editor (except for issue #25, which was again edited by Bagge).Color illustrations on covers, b&w interiors. Early issues of Weirdo reflect Crumb's interests at the time outsider art, fumetti, Church of the SubGenius-type anti-propaganda and assorted "weirdness." It also introduced artists such as Peter Bagge, Dori Seda and Dennis Worden. No. 23 Contributors: Robert Crumb, Sophie Crumb, Ace Backwords, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Ted Jouflas, Tom …

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Weirdo, No. 22, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Editor), Special Collections, Fleet Library Mar 1988

Weirdo, No. 22, Aline Kominsky-Crumb (Editor), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

28 volumes : illustrations. Frequency: quarterly. Publication dates: No. 1 (spring, 1981), ceased with no. 28 (summer, 1993). Editor: R. Crumb. With issue #10, P. Bagge became editor; with issue #18, Crumb's wife, Aline Kominsky-Crumb became editor (except for issue #25, which was again edited by Bagge).Color illustrations on covers, b&w interiors. Early issues of Weirdo reflect Crumb's interests at the time outsider art, fumetti, Church of the SubGenius-type anti-propaganda and assorted "weirdness." It also introduced artists such as Peter Bagge, Dori Seda and Dennis Worden. No. 22 Contributors: Robert Crumb, Krystine Kryttre, Dori Seda, Justin Green, Ell, Kim Deitch, …

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The Golden Age Of European Cabaret, Agnieszka Taborska, William Damkoehler, Anne Johnson, Susan Sellers, Georgie Stout, Mark Borok, Michael Zimmerman, Bill Gold, Charles Oestreicher, Edward Guttman, Caroline Provost, Ed Hemingway, Holly Heerens, Eugene Mollica, Susan Unger, Michelle Talbot, Sarah Bishop, Malcom Coelho, Heather Frith, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Jacques Prevert, Don Keefer, Emliy Cohen, Martha Crawford, Susan Becker, Hanns Eisler, Molly Komacker, Vivienne Cho, Carsten Stehr Feb 1988

The Golden Age Of European Cabaret, Agnieszka Taborska, William Damkoehler, Anne Johnson, Susan Sellers, Georgie Stout, Mark Borok, Michael Zimmerman, Bill Gold, Charles Oestreicher, Edward Guttman, Caroline Provost, Ed Hemingway, Holly Heerens, Eugene Mollica, Susan Unger, Michelle Talbot, Sarah Bishop, Malcom Coelho, Heather Frith, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Jacques Prevert, Don Keefer, Emliy Cohen, Martha Crawford, Susan Becker, Hanns Eisler, Molly Komacker, Vivienne Cho, Carsten Stehr

Programs

Program for the second annual RISD Cabaret held in the Cellar in the Pit. Design and layout by Anne Johnson, Susan Sellers and Georgie Stout.

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Fluxus And Friends, Estera Milman, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

Fluxus And Friends, Estera Milman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Art History

"The University of Iowa Museum of Art, January 23-March 13, 1988." Includes a separate checklist, inside back cover. Library has two copies, each with two checklist sheets. Gift of Estera Milman, RISD Class of 1970. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection. Estera Milman (RISD BFA Painting/Printmaking and Film, 1970) scholar of post-World War II avant-garde art. Founded Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Art (ATCA) at the University of Iowa, 1982, and served as its director until 2000. She is the author of many books, articles, interviews, and exhibition catalogs on Fluxus and No!art. In December 2018 she donated a selection books …

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Ye Olde Alphabet, Anne Johnson, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker Jan 1988

Ye Olde Alphabet, Anne Johnson, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Letters

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

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Memory Loss, Scott Mccarney, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

Memory Loss, Scott Mccarney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 sheet folded. Folded accordion style; binding consists of end boards and cord tie.

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Portfolio, 1988, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi) Jan 1988

Portfolio, 1988, Risd Archives, Center For Student Involvement (Csi)

RISD Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

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Window Watching: An Alliterative Alphabet, Elizabeth Bowne, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker Jan 1988

Window Watching: An Alliterative Alphabet, Elizabeth Bowne, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Letters

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

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Seas Of The Moon, Katharine Meynell, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

Seas Of The Moon, Katharine Meynell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

hand sewn signatures with metallic paper hand stitched to the cover pages, book enclosed in a denim cloth slipcase; cover; title page; interior spreads. Images of the poetically named "seas" of the moon's surface are conveyed with images of parts of baby clothes, implying the relationship between the full moon and childbirth.

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A Packet Of Letters, Walter Sidney Feldman, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

A Packet Of Letters, Walter Sidney Feldman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 19 pages. One of 45 numbered copies. "The type of A Packet of Letters is 18 pt. Bodoni and was set by Mollohan Typesetting of West Warwick, Rhode Island. It was printed on Nideggen paper on a hand fed Vandercook Press. The binding is by Stuart Einhorn of Providence, R.I.A Packet of Letters was published in an edition of 45 ..."--Colophon. Title and text in red and black on title page. Bound at the head of the text with white-coated metal spiral binding. Text is attached to a cloth cover binder with an off-center opening in front. A …

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Gold And Silver Do Not Spoil, Robert Peters, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

Gold And Silver Do Not Spoil, Robert Peters, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

70 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). Single signature stapled into a paper wrapper with cut-out in the front cover revealing part of a photograph on the title page. Offset printed text and images on the theme of money and society. Cut-out in back cover reveals text from last page. "Text compiled from the following authors: Ansel Adams, Aristotle, Samuel Beckett, Charlie Chan, Mary Douglas, Jules Henry, Robert L. Heilbroner, Ann Landers, Claude Levi Strauss, John Locke, Judith Martin, Karl Marx, Octavio Paz, John Ruskin, George Simmel, Herbert Spencer, Abigail Van Buren, Vtgoysky, Ludwig Wittgenstein and others"--Colophon. "This book was …

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Say, See, Bone : Lessons From French, Susan Elizabeth King, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

Say, See, Bone : Lessons From French, Susan Elizabeth King, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[37] leaves . Title on 3 succesive leaves. Text consists of prose pieces by King, poems in French by Adloff and King's translation of Adloff's poems; letterpress translations, and corrections and comments printed as handwriting, appear on Japanese paper as overlays. "Designed and letterpress printed in an edition of 125 copies by Susan E. King at Paradise Press."--Prospectus. "The coptic binding was done by hand by Shelley Hoyt."--Colophon. Blue and white paste paper cover boards made by Susan King. Prospectus laid in.

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About Change, About Change, About Change, Change About!, Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

About Change, About Change, About Change, Change About!, Ruth Laxson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Ruth Laxson Artist Book Archive

[20] leaves : color ill. "About change (about) explores the possibilities of combining the etching press and letter press."--Colophon. Issued in a plastic binder. The library has copy number 14 of an edition of 25, signed by the artist.

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American Splendor, No. 13, Harvey Pekar, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

American Splendor, No. 13, Harvey Pekar, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Underground Comix

volumes : illustrations. Began in 1976 with #1; ceased in 1993 with #17. American Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the last one in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular intervals (Pekar died in 2010). Publishers were, at various times, Harvey Pekar himself, Dark Horse Comics, and DC Comics. In addition to R. Crumb, Pekar's most well-known and longest-running collaborators included Gary Dumm, Greg Budgett, Spain Rodriguez, Joe Zabel, Gerry Shamray, Frank Stack, Mark Zingarelli, and Joe Sacco. …

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Changing Facades, Jose C. Orozco, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker Jan 1988

Changing Facades, Jose C. Orozco, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Culture

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

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You See This Book, Jose C. Orozco, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker Jan 1988

You See This Book, Jose C. Orozco, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Senses

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

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This Is A Book Of A Family And Of A Place Of The Heart, Sarah Malcolm Self, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker Jan 1988

This Is A Book Of A Family And Of A Place Of The Heart, Sarah Malcolm Self, Fleet Library, Special Collections, Jan Baker

Stories

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

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The Old-Time Printer, Mark Twain, Francis Xavier Harrigan, Don Brady, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

The Old-Time Printer, Mark Twain, Francis Xavier Harrigan, Don Brady, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Miniature Books

vi, 18 pages : illustrations ; 65 mm (6.4 x 5 cm). "This book was handset in 6 pt. Bulmer with "Notes" set in 6 pt. Baskerville. Printed by F.X. Harrigan at the Xavier Press in a limited edition of 175 copies. Bound by Don Brady."--colophon. Foreword by the printer. Text is copy of an address Twain delivered in New York City to commemorate Benjamin Franklin's birthday in 1886. Frontispiece is a mounted reproduction of a US postage stamp which included a portrait of Mark Twain. Ten cent stamp originally issued 1940. Title page printed in black and red. Bound …

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