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Fairmont Color Card: Fcc, Sarah Bryant, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Fairmont Color Card: Fcc, Sarah Bryant, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 box (8 folded sheets, 1 sheet) : color illustrations, mounted fabrics Title from front of folded sheets. Limited edition of 20 copies. "Fairmont Color Card is an exploration of the roles of textile, color, and fashion in the origin story of landfill culture. Text for the project was culled from 1977-1978 Home Furnishing Color Card, produced by The Color Association of the United States, Inc. and The Wastemakers, written by Vance Packard in 1960. Designed and produced between 2019 and 2021, the project began in one place and ended in another. Materials for this project include my sheets, my …
Parade Of The Old New : Panorama ; The Troublemakers : History Painting In The Real World, Zoe Beloff, Leeemma Running
Parade Of The Old New : Panorama ; The Troublemakers : History Painting In The Real World, Zoe Beloff, Leeemma Running
Artists' Books
76 unnumbered pages : color illustrations Held closed by red elastic band Includes bibliographical references "An accordion book that reproduces Parade of the Old New, a panoramic painting on cardboard by Zoe Beloff. Created between 2017 and 2021, the picture is an allegory of the American body politic in dark times inspired by Bertolt Brecht's poem. On the reverse of the accordion you will find Beloff's essay The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World"--new.booklyn.org 40-panel accordion book. SEI
Water Jokes, Adriana Gallo, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Water Jokes, Adriana Gallo, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
122 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations "First Edition of 200, First Printing"--colophon. "'Water Jokes' is a collaboration with lucky risograph for the 2021 Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair. It contains a collection of photographs and found images with an accompanying text by the artist on Giochi d'acqua or 'water games' or water jokes', the term originally referring to the (often hidden) water automata of Italian Mannerist gardens."--artist's webpage. "Risograph printed on Sky Parchtone and Bright White Via Vellum. The book utilizes 5 distinct blue inks in various combinations."--artist's webpage. Plastic spiral binding. Velvet cover.
Silty Loam, Sara Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Silty Loam, Sara Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unnumbered) : illustrations "Brain Washing from Phone Towers" informational pamphlets series. Cover title. Edition of 250. Limited edition statement from artist's website, viewed May 9, 2023. Letterpress and relief printing on paper. Pamphlet stitch binding; accordion fold out; printed paper covers. "Silty Loam looks at all the different ways food can be grown in an urban environment, and why one might want to. Today, agriculture largely is practiced in isolation from the places where the majority of the population lives and works, and there is very little direct engagement of people with the land that provides the means …
Reminders To Myself : To Act From The Contradictions Of How I Feel About My Vaccination, And, Society In Transition, Rachael Schragis, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Reminders To Myself : To Act From The Contradictions Of How I Feel About My Vaccination, And, Society In Transition, Rachael Schragis, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 poster. "Spring 2021 event diagram" A series of post-it notes with contradictions related to the COVID-19 Pandemic and vaccination. Offset printing.
Los Zapatos De Tacón / Magali, Magali Lara, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Los Zapatos De Tacón / Magali, Magali Lara, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
44 unnumbered pages : color illustrations . "Este libro se terminó de duplicar en marzo 2021. Su realización estar a cargo de Emmanuel García y Vanessa López. La encuadernación es de Su Yin Wong. El tiraje consta de 250 ejemplares impreso con una Risograph GR1750."--Colophon. Limited edition of 250.
Parade Of The Old New : Panorama ; The Troublemakers : History Painting In The Real World, Zoe Beloff, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Parade Of The Old New : Panorama ; The Troublemakers : History Painting In The Real World, Zoe Beloff, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
76 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. Held closed by red elastic band Includes bibliographical references "An accordion book that reproduces Parade of the Old New, a panoramic painting on cardboard by Zoe Beloff. Created between 2017 and 2021, the picture is an allegory of the American body politic in dark times inspired by Bertolt Brecht's poem. On the reverse of the accordion you will find Beloff's essay The Troublemakers: History Painting in the Real World"--new.booklyn.org 40-panel accordion book. SEI
Black Is Every Color, Alisa Banks, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Black Is Every Color, Alisa Banks, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (8 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; in box 11.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm. Unique book. Artist's statement: Black, the sum of all colors, mysterious, all-encompassing, a shroud, a swarm. Familiar but unknowable, coveted and uncontained. This book work considers the encompassing nature of blackness. Box containing painted cube surrounded by four flaps featuring single signature books. Each stitched cover opens to reveal a poem about the color black. Media: Book cloth, book board, paper, acrylic paint, graphite, glass, embroidery thread, silk, watercolor, graphite. "Created while watching spring bloom and events unfold during COVID-19."--artist's website. Curated title …
The Morse Dry Dock Dial, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Morse Dry Dock Dial, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 31 x 46 cm folded to 17 x 13 cm. Cover title. Edition of 250. "The Morse Dry Dock Dial is the Spring 2020 Informational Pamphlet, taking its name from the magazine published by the Morse Dry Dock Company, my great-grandfather's employer in the early years of the twentieth century. The original publication reported on the lives and activities of their community of workers, many of which lived in the neighborhood, what was then called Bay Ridge and is now named Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This pamphlet talks about my family's history in the neighborhood, …
Avalanche Safety Book, Casey Gardner, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Avalanche Safety Book, Casey Gardner, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations Title from cover; imprint from colophon. "Written, drawn, printed and bound by the artist"--Colophon. Limited edition of 50 copies. Letterpress printed accordion-bound folios with pamphlet-stitched interior booklets. Printed on a Vandercook 4 with photo-polymer plates and carved linoleum. Two digitally printed, hand-bound fascicles. Covers are cloth-cornered davey board. Typefaces: Cheltenham, Kabel, Gill Sans, Futura, and Bodoni. Paper: Moulin du Gué, Zerkall Book, and Curious Metallic. "This book, through a story of two climbers, explores human vulnerability and vision in navigating physical and existential risks. The story reflects our era of environmental peril and the blind …
A Cloud Index, Spencer Finch, Special Collections, Fleet Library
A Cloud Index, Spencer Finch, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
60 folded sheets : illustrations. "The sixty pastel drawings that comprise this book were originally created for a public art project at the new Elizabeth Line station at Paddington in London. The entire work, titled "A Cloud Index," presents 27 different types of clouds within a single composition. The drawings were scanned and then printed onto 180 clear glass panels (each 2 meters x 6 meters) and installed in the canopy of the station. The pages of this book can be assembled and attached to a wall to re-create the entire artwork, at a reduced scale. The number printed on …
Don't Cut Your Hair It's Beautiful, Kellee Morgado, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Don't Cut Your Hair It's Beautiful, Kellee Morgado, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
3 volumes : color illustrations Edition of 50. Each volume has 24 unnumbered pages, bound so that the reader can lift the center illustration to reveal a larger illustration within. The gatherings are unopened throughout, obscuring text and illustrations. In a cloth-covered portfolio, held closed with a printed paper band. "The work questions personal rituals surrounding hair, constructs associated with hair in Western culture, and the shift in value when hair is unattached to bodies. In this ongoing inquiry I explore my own experience with femininity, womanhood, my relationship with my own hair, and how it conforms to or disrupts …
Baldio, I.E. S̆Egota, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Baldio, I.E. S̆Egota, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
20 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations Title from cover. "Dibugado por I.E. S̆egota para Concordia, MX, en la ciudad de Qro., en el año de la pandemia."--back cover. Signed in pencil by the artist on back cover. Accordion book, front side has one continuos illustration screen printed in green, orange, and purple on beige paper. Illustration on verso in blue on beige.
Delirium, Philip Zimmermann, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Delirium, Philip Zimmermann, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
60 unnumbered pages : color illustrations Printed by archival inkjet in a numbered edition of 30 copies, signed. "Delirium is a book born of the Covid-19 pandemic and time spent in lock-down. The text uses a paragraph from the 1866 masterpiece "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Towards the end of the book, his protagonist, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, has a feverish dream. This strangely prophetic text is quoted and used as the narrative line in this book. Highly manipluated images of jewel-like approximations of the corona virus appeared all over the web in the first few months of the pandemic …
Light Journal, Francesca Capone, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Light Journal, Francesca Capone, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
102 pages : illustrations. Edition of 200 copies. Accompanying the book: sunflower seeds, a piece of turmeric dyed canvas, plastic glow in the dark star, and a postcard of a neon weaving. Book and objects all housed in a plastic bag. Black, paperback, perfect bound journal. "Light Journal is a conceptual writing project, where daily perceptions of light have been recorded as notes on a smart phone (a source of light unto itself). Similar to the process of weaving on a loom, the book starts at a point in time, and then builds upwards towards the present. The text reads …
Vasilisa And The Witch's Fire, Joanna Robson, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Vasilisa And The Witch's Fire, Joanna Robson, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 4 pages. Title from cardboard slipcase cover. Pattern cloth over cover boards. Lasercut silhouette illustrations, with pages that fold out concertina style. In paper box, 14 x 14 x 2 cm. Certificate of authenticity ([6] pages ; illustrations ; 10 x 10 cm) includes instructions on how to display the book. "A papercut re-telling of Vasilisa the Beautiful's flight from the hut of Baba Yaga the Witch"--Certificate of authenticity. "Book no. 16 of 30 was completed by Joanna Robson in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, on 11/1/2019"--Certificate of authenticity.
Pur-Suit, Naima Green, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Pur-Suit, Naima Green, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
54 cards : color portraits. Edition of 2,500. Edition printing number statement from the artist's website. "Pur·suit is a deck of 54 playing cards features queer women, trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people."--colophon card. "Pur-suit is in the interest of queer and trans people, of people of color, and of groups that continue to be marginalized. Made over 9 days between October 2018 and January 2019, these photographs help complete an image of the world that we live in."--colophon card. In playing card box with title, photographer's name, "First Edition ; Made in ROC, Printed by Expert Playing Card Co., …
Plant Out Of Place, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Plant Out Of Place, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 folded leaf . Cover title. "A special publication from Brain Washing from Phone Towers Information Pamphlets"--page [4] of cover. "Spring 2019 NYC" Pamphlet stitch, interior is printed on single folded sheet. Metal type and linocut printing.
Bound Tight, Taylor Anna Cox, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Bound Tight, Taylor Anna Cox, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : 5 illustrations. Title, book artist's name, place of publication, and number of copies in edition from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers (distributor) website. Edition limited to 32 numbered copies. Text and decorations printed with metalic copper ink. "Letterpress printed on Suede Tex paper with photopolymer plates. Images of historic X-rays taken by Dr. Ludovic O'Followell in 1908 laser printed on Via Vellum papers."--Colophon. "In 1892 Benjamin Orange Flowers [that is, Flower] wrote the critical essay 'Fashion Slaves' chronicling the damaging effects corsets had on the female body. In 1908, the scientist Dr. Ludovic O'Followell took x-rays of …
Prism, Helen Hiebert, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Prism, Helen Hiebert, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 54 pages . Watermark and hand-stitching on page preceding title page. "A triangular prism is a transparent object, with ends in the shape of a triangle, which separates light that passes through it into the colors of the rainbow." "Helen Hiebert made all the papers in this book by hand. The colored text papers are all 100% premium abaca, colored with aqueous dispersed pigments mixed by Lata Gedala ... The cover is a cotton/abaca pulp blend with a pulp painting in abaca. All text was letterpress printed by Tom Leech at the Press at the Palace of the …
Make The Earth Say Beans, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Make The Earth Say Beans, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume. Cover title [Edition of 250] Linoleum cut and letterpress prints on paper. Do-si-do binding, instant book format, that unfolds to reveal additional text and illustrations. Enclosed in printed, paper cover. "Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets produced by hand on a seasonal basis."--Provided by artist. "Summer 2019 NYC"--back cover.
Gone Fishin', Asuka Ohsawa, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Gone Fishin', Asuka Ohsawa, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations "Written, illustrated, screen-printed, and hand-bound by Asuka Ohsawa in New York, NY, in 2019"--Colophon. "The end sheets were printed by Sun Night Editions in Oakland, CA"--Colophon. "Gone Fishin' began as ... [an] experiment to incorporate the panoramic landscape format of Japanese emaki (narrative hand scroll paintings from the 12th century) into a codex form. During the five month process of drawing and printing, however, the book morphed into a hybrid form that is part emaki, part comics, and part typographic adventure."--colophon. "Screenprinted on Rives Heavyweight paper ... Drum-leaf bound with a drop-spine cover. Edition …
Book Book / 书书, Myungah Hyon, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Book Book / 书书, Myungah Hyon, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 plastic bag, 3 components . Cover title. "Book Book is an instruction book of intro-level bookbinding. Written by Myungah Hyon and illustrated by Yuchen Chang."--Printed Matter. "Edition of 500, Third printing, November 2019"--colophon. Accompanied by notched four-piece cardboard book stand. Stitch bound, exposed adhesive binding. Digital printing. Book and book cradle housed in a clear-plastic backpack with yellow drawstrings.
An Alphabetical Accumulation Of Approximate Observations, Kameelahjanan Rasheed, Special Collections, Fleet Library
An Alphabetical Accumulation Of Approximate Observations, Kameelahjanan Rasheed, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
90 unnumbered pages : illustrations Cover title. Edition of 150. "Bright pink and gritty, An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations serves as a visual A-Z of dissonant experiences, ranging from Cumulative Caskets to Weaponized Watermelon. The pink-speckled texture paired with crude, black cut-out letters enforces a distinctly D-I-Y feel, with the textual centerpieces serving nonsense literature in a brief and digestible form."-- Printed Matter, Inc., viewed December 9, 2020 Pink coated wire spiral binding. Risograph printed.
Shadow. Canto Three Incidental Music, Marlene Maccallum, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Shadow. Canto Three Incidental Music, Marlene Maccallum, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations. Cover title. Edition limited to 16 numbered copies, signed. Text appears blind-printed at the head and letterpress printed at the foot of some leaves. "'Shadow: Incidental Music' is the third canto of the ongoing project Shadow, a book work variation on the long poem format. 'Incidental Music' presents itself initially as a straightforward codex but upon opening reveals a cascade of nested accordion-fold structures. Naturally occurring patterns of light and shadow create cyclical but transient intrusions into interior spaces. Sunlight progresses through the time and space of the pages with a brief shadow-play balancing-act …
Fresh Creek, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Fresh Creek, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 folded leaf, 20 pages . "The last pamphlet of 2019 is about: transportation networks, bicycling in the city, the Jamaica Bay Greenway, landfills, Robert Moses, how to get where you need to go, Starrett City and their seaside view, and finally, the Shirley Chisholm State Park out in East New York. It follows a bike ride that I took last fall that I particularly enjoyed."-- artists' website.
Ref, Shift-Lab, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Ref, Shift-Lab, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 container, 15 parts. "REF is an investigation into the erosion of the physical reference area of the library, and the fundamental shift taking place in the way we ask and answer questions. This project was produced by the members of Shift-lab: Katie Baldwin, Denise Bookwalter, Sarah Bryant, Macy Chadwick, and Tricia Treacy. Artists worked individually and collaboratively to produce elements inspired by the traditional components of a physical reference section: Almanac, Atlas, Bibliography, Biographical Dictionary, Chronology, Concordance, Dictionary, Directory, Encyclopedia, Gazetteer, Guidebook, Handbook, Index, Manual, and Yearbook."--Big Jump Press. "As we designed our responses to traditional elements of the …
Urgency Reader, Paul Soulellis, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Urgency Reader, Paul Soulellis, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 252 pages. "Urgency Reader is a quick assembling of texts, risograph printed in Pawtucket, RI, and bound as a book at the last minute to launch at the Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery on December 6, 2019. Suggested topics from the open call included: urgency, craft, queerness, gender, transformation, kinship, race, survival.."--cover wrapper.
Grass, Kim Su-Yong, Xianlu Yi, Brother Anthony, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Grass, Kim Su-Yong, Xianlu Yi, Brother Anthony, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 12 pages. Limited to of 50 copies. Accompanied by folded sheet booklet ([6] pages ; folded to 13.5 x 10.5 cm) "Kim Su-yong, a poet who explored love and freedom as poetic and political ideals"--page [3] of cover. Wooden hardcover. Cover has blind carved designs. Title and author information embossed into covers. Accordion, flag book binding. "Kim su-yong is one of the most exceptional poets of modern Korea. He died at the relatively young age of 48 in 1968, but his poetry has become a symbol of freedom and revolution during the democratization of Korea. His last poem, …
A Single {Frame}, Liya Zhu, Special Collections, Fleet Library
A Single {Frame}, Liya Zhu, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
1 volume, 6 pages. Numbered edition of 12 copies. "printed in Caslon Old Style on French paper with watercolor and lino-cuts"--colophon. ".. [Produced] spring 2019 [for] Art 136: The Artist's Book course, taught by Tia Blassingame"--colophon. Combines handset letterpress, linocuts, watercolor, papercutting and an interactive element to express the significance of self."--Scripts Press.