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Risd Voice March 10, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 10, includes articles on mismanagement of the Tap Room, the power of the media to influence US presidential elections, ventilation and HVAC issues in the Printmaking department, overcrowding at a Maurice Sendak lecture, summer projects in Africa and the Caribbean, and a RISD Athletic Club, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

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, …

Risd Voice February 26, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated February 26, 1988, includes articles on graffiti as art, date rape, the Tap Room requiring IDs to get in, a housing fair, a Sting concert, a visit by filmmaker/artist Suzan Pitt, judgmental RISD students, a Right to Life anti-abortion march in Washington, issues with GI Joe and other military toys, racial prejudice, and the film "Good Morning Vietnam," along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Vienna, Paris, Berlin: 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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Risd Voice January 27, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated January 27, 1988, includes articles on an upcoming lecture by AIDS reporter Randy Shilts, issues with Wintersession registration, Architecture students allegedly cheating on a midterm exam, surplus funds from the student activity fee, and a program on rape, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

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

Art History

8 pages : illustrations. 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 …

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.

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. …

Smiley's Super Service, Daniel Marks, Charles Murphy, Tor Lokvig, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Pop-up and Movable Books

[5] folded leaves : col. ill. . PSS Panorama Story Series Caption title. Printed on 5 double leaves that open out or pop up into three-dimensional service station scenes. Includes 5 "punch-out" pieces. Stanley F. Moss Pop-Up Book Collection, Gift of Eugene B. Navias.

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

Letters

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

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.

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.

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.

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 …

Memory Loss, Scott Mccarney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

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

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

Culture

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

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Neopostmodrinism, Or, Dieser Rasen Ist Kein Hundeklo, Or, Gub²Rzub² Number 6, Or, The Incognita Of Rita's Deep Time Coexisting Within Central Discoveries Of The Thermodynamic Dichotomy Of Western Thought : Observed Impregnant Meanings & Transhistorical Justifications, Walter Samuel Haatoum Hamady, Perishable Press Unlimited, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[102] pages : illustrations . Alternate Titles: Neopostmodrinism; Neopostmodernism; Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo. Half title: Neopostmodernism, or, Dieser Rasen ist kein Hundeklo, or, Gabberjab number 6. Series: Hamady, Walter. Interminable gabberjabb ; 6. No. 6 of the author's Interminable gabberjabb "series." Limited edition of 125 copies. Signatures: [1]⁴ [2]¹² [3]⁸ [4]¹⁰ [5]⁸ [6]¹⁰. Page count runs from [1]₁b to [6]₁₀a. [2]₉ and [2]₁₀, though joined to form a double leaf, have printing on one of the facing surfaces.

What's Happening With Momma?, Clarissat. Sligh, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[7] pages : illustrations. A bookwork, consisting of one cardboard sheet accordion folded to form various views of a house, with a poem printed on accordion folded cards which unfold to form a stairway in front of the picure on each page. Cover title. Printing method: Silkscreen, letterpress. Accordion fold book. Edition of 50, signed by the artist.

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

RISD Yearbooks

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Risd Voice November 30, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 30, 1987, includes articles on an arts and humanities lecture, a drunk driving accident, the RISD Nads, a columnist's friend who has AIDS, and a self-help program called "Lifespring," along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

From St. Petersburg To Krushchev's Boot, James O. Barnhill, Justin Kerr, Edward Guttman, Caroline Provost, Jennifer Bull, Marguerite White, Nancy Bach, Steve Overman, Josh Pearson, Jean Wasil, Mark Borok, Vivienne Cho, Karen Frishmann, Heather Firth, Lisa Hurwitz, Treva Offutt, Beth Whitney, Sarah Bishop, Richard Ross, Cara Reische, Walter Clarke, Rene Dimanche Jr., David Ross, Malcom Coelho, Andrew Sklar, Michael Wodkowski, Susan Ockerse, Paul Scagnetti, Martha Crawford, Holly Su Heerens

Programs

Program for the first annual RISD Cabaret held in Memorial Hall. Design and layout by Justin Kerr.

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Risd Voice October 28, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 28, 1987, includes articles on the walk up to the quad, safe sex and AIDS, a new RISD/Brown croquet club, a screening of a film by RISD student Zachary Straits, Monday Night Football, and a Halloween costume contest, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice October 7, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 7, 1987, includes articles on student organization RISD Solidarity, a weekend to raise awareness about drug and alcohol abuse, AIDS, California, and an architecture forum on "context, continuity, and change," along with editorials, illustrations, notices, and advertisements.

Weirdo, No. 21, 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. 21 Contributors: Robert Crumb, William Clark, Mary Fleener, Carol Tyler, Robert Armstrong, Michael …

Risd Voice May 20, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 20, 1987, includes articles on a symposium at Brown on the postmodern novel, the locked book collection at the RISD Library, the RISD Annual Senior Film Show, issues in the Painting Department, safe sex guidelines, and the Student Board, apathy at RISD, along with editorials, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice April 22, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 22, 1987, includes articles on a new student community engagement group called "RISD Solidarity," the end of the Mellon Lectures series, an exhibition featuring RISD women's art, scholarly opportunities at Brown, ways for RISD to engage with the community, the termination of Graphic Design instructor Don Adleta, a proposed bill to divest Rhode Island state funds from South Africa, a project to discover why American towns were named after European cities, and a RISD student who's also a Grateful Dead roadie, along with editorials, …