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Office Workers Notebook, Danielo Garcia, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Office Workers Notebook, Danielo Garcia, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
84 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color). Edition of 25 numbered copies. "In the design of a traditional steno pad this book surveys found photographs from ... the New York Public Library. Artist, Danielo Garcia, sourced and photographed hundreds of advertisements, stock-photographs, and archive copies in the production of this faux-notebook, limited edition, publication."--Publisher website. Five color Risograph printing. Spiral bound, at head of text. Library has copy no. 17, signed by the author.
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. …
All Sorts, Emily Martin, Ellen Knudson, Jerry Chicone Jr., University Of Florida School Of Art And Art History, George A. Smathers Libraries, Library Press@Uf, Boxcar Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library
All Sorts, Emily Martin, Ellen Knudson, Jerry Chicone Jr., University Of Florida School Of Art And Art History, George A. Smathers Libraries, Library Press@Uf, Boxcar Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
6 unnumbered leaves : color illustrations; added title page sheet; 1 pamphlet ([12] pages : color illustrations). Title from first panel. "The design of the artist's book .. began in the Smathers Libraries Special and Area Studies Collections during the summer of 2015. Ms. Martin researched the contents of the Jerry Chicone, Jr. Citrus Crate Label Collection. She learned that the grading system for citrus is displayed through label color: blue: best quality, red: second quality, yellow: third quality. Inspired by the labels' vibrant colors, geometric pattern elements, and the structure of fruit crates themselves, Ms. Martin designed a tunnel …
The Glamour Requirement: The 2014 Buffalo Jills Etiquette Guide, Stefanie Kalem, Whitney Coffin Shaw, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Glamour Requirement: The 2014 Buffalo Jills Etiquette Guide, Stefanie Kalem, Whitney Coffin Shaw, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 40 pages, 1 slipcase. In April 2014, the Buffalo Bills were sued by their cheerleading squad,the Buffalo Jills, for several labor law violations, some as basic as minimum wage rate of pay. In the ensuing law suit, a document titled "Buffalo Jills Glamour Etiquette Hygiene Rules" became public and was published online. The appalling and insulting document is reproduced here with an editorial by Stefanie Kalem and illustrations by Whitney Coffin Shaw. -- Publisher's website. "The Glamour Requirement was printed on Rives 8FK paper from Monotype 20th Century and hand-set Futura types. The images are printed from photopolymer …
Blizzard Book, Virginia Phelps, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Blizzard Book, Virginia Phelps, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
Multi-section slip case. Publication information from 23 Sandy website. Edition of 3. "Blizzard Book is a nod to the well-known book structure created by Hedi Kyle, so named because she created the structure during a blizzard. This Blizzard Book is focused on snow and wind. Six personal stories about the artist's experiences with blizzard conditions accompany booklets containing moveable structures which depict and explain the six basic types of snow identified by the International Commission on Snow and Ice in the early 1950's. Each type of snow is created by specific atmospheric conditions that are present when water droplets freeze …
The End Of The Wasp Season, Erin K. Schmidt, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The End Of The Wasp Season, Erin K. Schmidt, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 artists' book. Edition of three numbered and signed copies. Title, artist's name, edition statement, and artist's email address written in pencil on paper board which attaches the cover boards in place. Publication date from artist's invoice. "The title of this work is taken from the title of the book 'the end of wasp season' which has been altered into the form of a wasp nest. Nine small whirlwind bound books are nestled into the brood cells, tucked away like larvae. Within the brood cells images of wasps have been rubber stamped in social groupings, but their numbers decrease leaving …
Rain/Fall, Denise Bookwalter, Michael Bookwalter, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Rain/Fall, Denise Bookwalter, Michael Bookwalter, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (partly color). Limited edition of 50 numbered copies. Co-published: Chicago: Center for Book and Paper Arts. Artist book consisting of 9 rotatable volvelles inserted into cardboard pages. Printed on Legion Bamboo paper. Bound in red book cloth. "The project Rain/fall accentuates the physicality of the book and the possibilities of contemporary mobile technology combining these seemingly disparate forms to create a complementary cross platform reading experience. Rain/fall is driven by geography and weather. The text in both the app and the book is determined by where the reader is and what weather the reader is …
Until Death Do Us Part, Thomas Sauvin, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Until Death Do Us Part, Thomas Sauvin, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
[100] pages : chiefly color illustrations. "Published ... in a second edition of 2000 China, September 2015."--colophon. "Until Death Do Us Part focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of an unprecedented ingenuousness. This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand. These photos come from the Beijing Silvermine project, an archive of half a million …
Unfolding Practice : Reflections On Learning And Teaching, Arzu Mistry, Todd Elkin, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Unfolding Practice : Reflections On Learning And Teaching, Arzu Mistry, Todd Elkin, Women's Studio Workshop, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Issued in an edition of 50 copies. "Unfolding Practice: Reflections on Learning and Teaching is a conversation between two artist-educators. Flowing across five chapters, the double sided accordion book has been curated from ten years of recorded conversations, field notes, planning, sketches, reflection, and teaching. The front of the book weaves text, illustration, cutouts, and screen prints, journeying through artistic process and educational practice. The back of the book is a guide, expanding on the practice of using accordion books as a tool for capturing, visualizing, and building upon reflective thinking. The brown paper …
Blue Yodo Waltz, Kyoko Matsunaga, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Blue Yodo Waltz, Kyoko Matsunaga, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 scroll. "Rivers are the source of all development, and civilizations are made up of individuals. The original of this scroll was a collage on a QRS player piano roll of Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) which I happened to find at an antique shop. When I lived in Osaka, I took pictures of ordinary local people while walking along the city's iconic Yodo river all the way to the bay as a collection of slice-of-life scenes of people in the limited area and time that I could experience at first hand, and laid them on the stream of the elegant …
Wipe The Slate, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Wipe The Slate, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 folded sheet. Edition of 200. "December 2015 New York City" Folded pamphlet, with text and background illustrations, printed from wood and metal type and hand carved lino blocks. Can be viewed unfolded flat or folded into accordion-style book. Sheet folds out to 32 x 47 cm, one side illustrated with woodcuts, the other with linocuts. Title printed in red letterpress, text printed in blue letterpress.
Z Helix, Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Z Helix, Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
116 pages : all illustrated. "The helix is chiral and exists in two varieties, S and Z. The book Z Helix developed around the manufacturing conventions of coil bindings (which are only available as Z helices), and the color and structure of the sculpture 'Square Helix (Z)' which was included in an exhibition entitled The New Ambidextrous Universe at the ICA London in 2014. The book contains five Z helices"--Insert. Two color coils interweaved. Spiral bindings in orange and blue. Indigo print on 4mm transparency film. Housed in a corrugated cardboard box (31 x 26 cm) Title, author and imprint …
Meet Me In My Kitchen, Alice Austin, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Meet Me In My Kitchen, Alice Austin, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 circular map fold book. Title from paper wrapper. Publication information from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on August 26, 2015. Limited edition of 20 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "A love of pie inspired this circular love letter of linoleum prints of pie. A reduction printing process was used to create prints in yellow (lemon), red (cherry), and blue (blueberry) with text--expressing love of another--printed on the yellow pie. The reverse side of each print is relief printed by hand from lace. The three part circular map fold book is joined with a magnet which allows …
Kangaroo Is Kangaroo, I Am I, Jeongrye Choi, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Kangaroo Is Kangaroo, I Am I, Jeongrye Choi, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
37 unnumbered pages including 3 folded pages : illustrations (some color). "Designed, illustrated, printed, and bound by steph rue at the university of iowa center for the book in the spring of 2014. text graciously provided by jeongrye choi, who holds the copyright. additional thanks for sang-seok yoon, joung-a park, sara langworthy, and julie leonard."--Colophon Edition of 40 copies. Text in English and Korean. Case binding. Library has copy 33 of 40. Purchased at Codex 2024. SEI
Change = Anything Can Happen Next!, Bob Pliny, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Change = Anything Can Happen Next!, Bob Pliny, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 27 pages. Publication information from 23 Sandy Gallery website. "A meditation upon the nature of change. Change is everywhere and always. It is the ceaseless motion of things continually being transforming into other things."--23 Sandy Gallery website. Text and illustrations were handpainted using graphite and colored pencil, acrylics, photo copies and composition gold leaf. Layers of recycled book pages and wallpaper. Altered book, re-used hardcover book binding. Unique artists' book. Accordion fold, attached to back cover. Text extends out to 148.5 inches.
Maille, Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Maille, Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
24 unnumbered pages : all illustrations. "As a weaver, recreational student of topology and collector of wire entanglement puzzles, I've been studying chainmaille and the many variations of meshes that can be made with interlocking rings. The book 'Maille' is a collection of images from this research which have been heavily processed and rendered using a variation on halftoning: a mesh of differently sized white rings. The volume is hinged together with metal rings like those used to make the weaves in the photographs."--artist's statement.
Abecedarian, Ashley May, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Abecedarian, Ashley May, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
volumes : color illustrations . Vol. 1. A-M. Using high quality scans of vintage postcards, artist Ashley May creates kaleidoscopic digital collages. She re-purposes the traditional use of post-cards into a 21st century communiqué: the GIF animation. In collaboration with Endless Editions, Ashley May designed an artist book inspired by her GIF animations. This 14-page, accordion-bound book spirals outwards into a 28 x 28 inch circle, mimicking an animation in physical space. -- Limited Editions website. Accordion variation, fan binding. Book can be folded into a carousel variation structure.
1 In 3: Women Have Been Slapped, Pushed, Or Shoved, Jaime Shafer, Special Collections, Fleet Library
1 In 3: Women Have Been Slapped, Pushed, Or Shoved, Jaime Shafer, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume unpaged. Cover title. Limited edition of 25 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Printed at the Black Rock Press using a Vandercook Universal I and inkjet pigments. Letterpress printed from metal type and polymer plates on Stonehenge paper. Inkjet printed on Hahnemuhle Duo and Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art paper. Found and altered photographs"--Colophon. Hedi Kyle's flag book structure, bound in paper over boards. An outline of a woman's head is printed on the back of the accordion spine. Text letterpress printed in red and grey on flags and cover boards. Flags feature inset altered portraits of female …
Shift, Shift-Lab, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Shift, Shift-Lab, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 box, contains 5 books and 3 folded cards. Each artist created a small book of identical dimensions to reflect her interpretation of the word "SHIFT". Edition limited to 20 copies, numbered and signed by artists. Five books issued in drop-lid box, covered in grey fabric with paper title label and magnetic closure. CONTENTS 1825-1862-1918 (Shift) / K. Baldwin -- Shape shifting / Denise Bookwalter -- Shift in position / Sarah Bryant -- A shift in perspective / Macy Chadwick -- Redirecting shift / Tricia Treacy.
Memories Of Science, Dorothy A. Yule, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Memories Of Science, Dorothy A. Yule, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
Limited edition of fifty copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Typeset in Garamond, Latin Condensed and Copperplate, designed with Adobe CS5 and letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine. Engravings are from the Dover Pictorial Archives and 'The complete encyclopedia of illustration' by Johann Georg Heck. Star maps.. by Susan Hunt Yule. Music.. by Doug Yule. lyrics.. by Dorothy A. Yule"--Colophon. "Recorded, mixed and mastered at: Avast! Studio, Seattle, Washington. Engineer: Jonny Mendoza; Produced by Doug Yule and Jonny Mendoza. Performed by Big Red Dog. Doug Yule: Guitar, Vox, Shakers. Cary Lung: Mandolins. Tom Collicott: Guitar. Dan Yule: Violin, Bass"--Audio disc. …
A Field Guide To Weeds: With Illustrated Taxonomy Of The Most Pernicious And Troublesome Plants, Kim Beck, Special Collections, Fleet Library
A Field Guide To Weeds: With Illustrated Taxonomy Of The Most Pernicious And Troublesome Plants, Kim Beck, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 96 unnumbered pages. "Third edition of 1500 copies, 2014."--Title page verso. A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. Becks innovative project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivythe very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoidcreep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the readers attention to …
The Riso Book: Portland, Colpa Press (San Francisco, Calif.), Publication Studio Portland, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Riso Book: Portland, Colpa Press (San Francisco, Calif.), Publication Studio Portland, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
103 unnumbered leaves . Title from publisher. "Copyright Luca Antonucci and David Kasprzak"--Title page. "Colpa, in collaboration with Publication Studio Portland presents 'The Riso Book: Portland', the fourth installment of a traveling publication project and exhibition between Los Angeles, Marfa, San Francisco, New York, and Portland.The series standardizes the conditions of production underlying artist publications and presents the book as exhibition. 'The Riso Book', inspired by the format of Seth Siegelaub and Jack Wendler's 1968 'Xerox Book', is a geographic survey of contemporary artists with similar practices across several cities. In Portland, 5 artists will work over the course of …
American Manifesto, Todd M. Thyberg, Special Collections, Fleet Library
American Manifesto, Todd M. Thyberg, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, map . "With a tip of the hat to printers and activists of the past, American Manifesto calls the United States citizens to action on a number of national concerns--our country's health, leadership, and environment, to name a few"--Artist's statement at the Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, viewed on September 1, 2015. "If America really is the best country on earth... why do so many of our people go hungry? Why do our leaders consistently work for corporate interests rather than individuals' rights? How can our leaders, the media, and we the public still …
Fabrik, Linda Welch, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Fabrik, Linda Welch, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
84 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Title from book cover. Unique artist book, signed by artist on page [3] of cover. Coptic binding. Pages incorporate acrylic painting, screen print ink, found papers, book board. "A visual flipbook of text, color and pattern," this one-of-a-kind painted book is by Linda Welch. Her abstract, layered, mixed media books incorporate oil painting, collage, screen printing, found book pages and wax."--23 Sandy Gallery website. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
New Horizons, Bruno Van Den Elshout, Special Collections, Fleet Library
New Horizons, Bruno Van Den Elshout, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
212 pages : all color illustrations. Title from case. Edition of 2012 numbered copies. Flatbook. Issued in paper wrapper and slipcase. Book design: Rob van Hoesel. On New Years Eve 2011 artist Bruno van den Elshout launches his camera-machine on the roof of a hotel on the beach in The Hague (NL). His goal is to capture the North Sea-horizon one year round. The camera-machine takes a picture of the horizon once every hour of 2012. That is 8,785 images. When these images start to arrive from the machine, the horizon suddenly reveals his surprisingly overwhelming appearance. Gray, grim, ordinary, …
Visible Spectrum, Conveyor Magazine, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Visible Spectrum, Conveyor Magazine, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
9 volumes : color illustrations .
Unbound, Jessica Peterson, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Unbound, Jessica Peterson, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. Cover title. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. "'Unbound' was designed and produced in a single month. The typefaces are Sabon and Scala Sans. The text is letterpress-printed on handmade cotton and abaca paper."--colophon. "Unbound is a limited edition artists' book which honors the veterans of Prince Edward County's 1959 school lock out ... The book was conceived and designed by artist Jessica Peterson and recounts the closing of the public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia, from 1959 to 1964. Unbound tells this story of these events with timelines, archival evidence, and collected …
Instant Books, Purgatory Pie Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Instant Books, Purgatory Pie Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
5 pamphlets : illustrations. Collection title from slipcase. A collection of five previously published "instabook" pamphlets. Each pamphlet autographed/ individually numbered in a limited edition. High anxiety/Team evil (2004) -- Brains & spines (2005) -- Enclosure exposure: data protection patterning (2007) -- Box (2008) -- Join the art party of the U.S.A. (2011). Library has Instant Books No 36.
Whipstock, A.B. Gorham, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Whipstock, A.B. Gorham, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
36 pages : color illustrations Cover title. Limited edition of 40 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. " ... written, designed & letterpress printed by AB Gorham at Small Craft Advisory Press, Tallahassee, FL, for the MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama. Typeset in Scala & printed on a Vandercook 15-21 with photopolymer plates & linoleum block on handmade cotton/abaca paper"--Colophon. "Laid in a Japanese two-flap hard cover with title (once incised, once printed) on two flaps ... Laid out in a shifting grid, Gorham's poetic text and the book's simple but elaborate structure reinforce the …
Ni Queue Ni Tête, Vera Molnar, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Ni Queue Ni Tête, Vera Molnar, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 folded sheet (46 unnumbered pages) : illustrations Issued in a clamshell box with paper cover label and compact disc mounted inside front cover. Includes a pamphlet with text by Jean-Yves Bosseur. Edition of 100 copies. Inkjet print on paper. Accordion book. In French. Library has copy no. 46. Purchased for Fleet Library at RISD through the Anne (MFA 92), Michael, and Amelia Spalter Fund. SEI