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A Humument : A Treated Victorian Novel, Thomas Phillips, Special Collections, Fleet Library
A Humument : A Treated Victorian Novel, Thomas Phillips, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
367 pages : color illustrations "In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page, by painting, collage or cut-up techniques, to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junk shop on Peckham Rye, south London. It was A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock. First published in 1973, A Humument--as Phillips titled his altered book--quickly established itself as a cult classic. Since then, Phillips has been working towards a complete revision of the original A Humument, replacing pages in …
Bottom Of The Lake = Fond Du Lac, Christian Patterson, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Bottom Of The Lake = Fond Du Lac, Christian Patterson, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
68, 175 pages : illustrations (some color). Bottom of the Lake is a 256-page facsimile of the artist's family's telephone book for his hometown of Fond du Lac, printed in 1973, soon after his birth. The book includes found markings and reproductions of inserted materials, along with Patterson's own drawings, photographs and marginalia. Bottom of the Lake is a book within a book that carefully combines the original, found, fact-based phone book with the artist's highly subjective re-imagination of his hometown; it playfully juxtaposes different documentary forms and ways of seeing to create a deeply personal, darkly humorous other book. …
Aunt Sallie's Lament, Margaret Kaufman, Clair Van Vilet, Ellen Dorn Levitt, Audrey Holden, Mary Richardson
Aunt Sallie's Lament, Margaret Kaufman, Clair Van Vilet, Ellen Dorn Levitt, Audrey Holden, Mary Richardson
Artists' Books
Diamond shape bound book, 24 pages, mounted color illustrations. Limited edition of 120 copies signed by Claire Van Vliet, Mary Richardson, Audrey Holden and E.D. Levitt. "This edition was made using the Permalin text block of the 1993 edition by Chronicle Books.. The design was made with Ellen Dorn Levitt and Audrey Holden who did most of the assembly and made the boxes with Mary Richardson."--Colophon. Book bound in a diamond-shape with the left point blunted for the spine. Each page is a different combination of colors and geometric shapes resembling quilt blocks. Additional Japanese and handmade papers added to …
Book Of Hours #51 Turkish Suite (As Theodora), Sherrill Edwards Hunnibel, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Book Of Hours #51 Turkish Suite (As Theodora), Sherrill Edwards Hunnibel, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 book object : color illustration. Altered book, mounted in acrylic case. The pages are sealed together to form a base for construction. Mixed media, collage, and assemblage techniques. Book cover is mounted to the acrylic backing with one rivet in each corner. Title information from back of case. Signed and dated on back. RISD Alumna, gift of the artist. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
A Passage, Buzz Spector, Special Collections, Fleet Library
A Passage, Buzz Spector, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
case bound in hard cover with silk covered boards; cover; top view of text block; interior pages and spreads, detail; colophon. Book consists of 181 identical pages bound and torn vertically by the artist. The page stubs gradually increase and the resulting text block forms a triangular shape. Content of the text is blurry until the full pages can be completely read. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
Altered Book, Unknown. Possibly Risd Student., Special Collections, Fleet Library
Altered Book, Unknown. Possibly Risd Student., Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 object. Altered book, consists of a portion of the spine (blue buckram) and a small part of the text block. Portions of words and illustrations can be seen as pages are flipped. Possibly made by a Rhode Island School of Design student. Donated to the library by Jan Baker, a former graphic design instructor who taught classes in artists' books. Case binding. Text in English. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
A Humument, Tom Phillips, Special Collections, Fleet Library
A Humument, Tom Phillips, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
367 pages : color illus. ; 18 cm. "After its first publication in book form in 1980, 'A Humument' rapidly became a cult classic. This new revised edition incorporates over fifty entirely new pages."--inside front cover. Gift of the RISD Museum. "A Humument has been a work in progress since 1966 when artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version. The book he found was an 1892 Victorian obscurity A Human Document by W.H. Mallock and Phillips transformed …