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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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

History Of A Felling, Anne Covell, Sin Nombre Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume : illustrations. In 1846, the United States and Great Britain signed the Oregon Treaty to make the 49th Parallel the boundary between the United States and British North America, later known as Canada. The two countries formed the International Boundary Commission to survey and establish what is now Washington State's northern border with British Columbia. Starting at Point Roberts and working east across the Northern Cascades, a team of workers physically marked the border by clear-cutting a 20-foot wide swath through the rugged, previously undisturbed terrain. By 1860, a primitive line running from the Pacific Ocean east to …

Through The Lotus Gate, Katie Han, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 voume (unpaged). Metal spiral binding. Title and preface header also in Chinese. Gift of the author. RISD Alumna, Textiles 2016. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

Sea Change, Anne Covell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Title from cover, letterpress title lettering in red, mounted on cover. Artist's name does not appear on the work. No edition statement. Constructed from offcuts, printer errors, and leftover remnants of the artist's numbered edition book with the same title. Pamphlet stitch with red thread. Purchased at Codex 2024.

Sea Change Complete Set Edition, Anne Covell, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

2 volumes : color maps. Artist book complete set edition consisting of 2 limited edition works also sold separately. Cased in open cardboard folder. Both volumes signed by their creator[s]: Artist book signed by Ellen Knudson and Anne Covell; Catastrophe map building set signed by Anne Covell. Responsibility statement from colophons. "2019 artist's book edition from the Marjorie S. Coffey Library Endowment Residency at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida." --Colophons. "Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates by Boxcar Press on an SP-15 Vandercook Proof Press in the UF School of Art + Art History Type Shop …

Gran Mar, Isabel Fernandez Echavarria, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

40 unnumbered pages : illustrations (1 folded, black & white. Title from artist's website. "Mayo de 2019" Photography, text, and design by Isabel Fernandez Echavarria. "A series of trips and over seven-year walks along the shores of the Pacific Ocean, steps of a major ongoing drift.. A wink to my pinhole camera and the 4x5" black & white film box in which my Gran Mar negatives and contacts travel with me."-- artist's website. Front cover and first page have a small pinhole opening. Black fabric over cover boards. Illustrated endpapers. English title translation: Great Sea. "At the beginning, it was …

The A To Z Of Conflict, Abdul Halik Azeez, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

106, 478, 430, xxxii pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. 'The A to Z of Conflict' is a tri-lingual artists' book by ten contemporary artists. It imagines what a commonplace children's ABC book would look like if all the entries were chosen in relation to words about conflict, and words born out of conflict. The project uses English, Sinhala, and Tamil, the three languages spoken in Sri Lanka, a country torn apart by a brutal civil war. From afar the compendium of entries testifies to the way language defines us linguistically, socially, and politically. Up close it reveals …

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.

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 …

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 …

The Plot Thickens : Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction From Dickens To Du Maurier, Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Lisa Surridge

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making.

These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex effects of flash-forward and flashback as the placement of illustrations revealed or recalled significant story elements. Victorians’ experience of what are now canonical novels thus differed markedly from that of modern readers, …

Bookshelf 新書上架, Rachel Duffell

AMBROSIA 客道 : The Magazine of The International Culinary Institute

A new chapter

翻開新一頁

We leaf through the latest tomes and tales by culinary professionals hailing from all corners of the globe

搜羅來自世界各地名廚的最新烹飪著作

Dad, I Love You, Joseph Inglima, Special Collections, Fleet Library

5th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists' Book Contest 2019

$375 LAURIE WHITEHILL PURCHASE PRIZE AWARD