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What's Happening With Momma?, Clarissat. Sligh, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1988

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.


My 9 Migraine Cures, Anne. Kalmbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1987

My 9 Migraine Cures, Anne. Kalmbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[18] pages : chiefly illustrations . Printing method: Offset, die cut Binding: Concertina


Don't Bug The Waitress, Susan Baker, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1987

Don't Bug The Waitress, Susan Baker, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 portfolio : color illus. Title from portfolio. Text and illustrations on portfolio covers. Four parts including the container. Printing method: Silkscreen. Binding: Paper portfolio, triptych fold. Accordion fold binding. Numbered and signed by artist.


A Humument, Tom Phillips, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1987

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 …


Parallax, Karen Chance, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1987

Parallax, Karen Chance, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 folded strip, 70 pages, chiefly color illustrations. Printed on both sides of a strip folded accordion style. "Printed at Nexus Press in the fall of 1987"--Colophon.


Calamity Jane And Questions Of Truth, Kim Abeles, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1986

Calamity Jane And Questions Of Truth, Kim Abeles, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

50 unnumberd pages : illustrations (some mounted, color), portraits. "1985/1986" Edition of 125 signed copies. Black tape on spine. Mounted illustration and title/author/edition statement mounted on cover. Black cord attached to back cover, cord wraps around two metal grommets mounted to front cover. Library has copy no. 39. Gift of Brian Goldberg.


The Acts, The Shelflife: Visual, Verbal, Networking, Miekal And, Elizabeth Was, Xeroxial Editions, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1986

The Acts, The Shelflife: Visual, Verbal, Networking, Miekal And, Elizabeth Was, Xeroxial Editions, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

volumes : illustrations . Each issue has also distinctive title: volume 1. Visual, verbal, networking ; volume 2. Polyartistry. Edited by Miekal And & Elizabeth Was. Volume 1 includes a painted, decorated 45-rpm record "Depicture DisK" in printed sleeve with title: Masculine propaganda dish / The Elastic Ecstatic. Record produced in a limited edtion of 200.


The Acts, The Shelflife: Polyartistry, Miekal And, Elizabeth Was, Xeroxial Editions, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1986

The Acts, The Shelflife: Polyartistry, Miekal And, Elizabeth Was, Xeroxial Editions, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

volumes : illustrations . Each issue has also distinctive title: volume 1. Visual, verbal, networking ; volume 2. Polyartistry. Edited by Miekal And & Elizabeth Was. Volume 1 includes a painted, decorated 45-rpm record "Depicture DisK" in printed sleeve with title: Masculine propaganda dish / The Elastic Ecstatic. Record produced in a limited edtion of 200.


Plastic, Angela Lorenz, Janet Zweig, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1986

Plastic, Angela Lorenz, Janet Zweig, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 meal set (5 pieces) : styrene plastic and polyvinyl chloride, black and white ; in plastic bag. Edition of 20. A set of containers and cutlery of a kind used by fast-food restaurants; the two containers are connected. Text in large black typeface runs continuously from one piece to the next. "Plastic, 300 million LBS., Born in America of Petroleum parents, Doomed, to serve us, Instantly, After which .." Title from largest container. Edition statement and date from, "RE:Making a documentation of work by Angela Lorenz" published 2023. "'Plastics' is made out of white plastic ans styrofoam fast-food packaging …


Alphabook 3, Scott Mccarney, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1986

Alphabook 3, Scott Mccarney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

2 accordion fold books with pop-up elements, enclosed in vellum wrapper; cover; interior views, pop-up. Cut outs unfold to reveal in one accordion book the letters A-M and in the other N-Z.


Seven Lady Saintes, Erica Van Horn, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1985

Seven Lady Saintes, Erica Van Horn, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 folded sheet ([16] leaves : color illus. Two sheets attached lengthwise and folded to form an accordion fold; in envelope made of plastic and string. Printing method: Silkscreen in four colors


Heinz And Judy : A Play, Janet Zweig, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1985

Heinz And Judy : A Play, Janet Zweig, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[20] pages : illus. (some color. RISD Faculty.


China Night, Terry Allen, Fresno Art Center, Flordia State University Art Center, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1985

China Night, Terry Allen, Fresno Art Center, Flordia State University Art Center, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

69 pages : ill. (some color). Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Fresno Arts Center and Museum and the Florida State University Fine Arts Gallery, Tallahassee, as part of the author's "Youth in Asia" series.


Old Address Book, Barbara Rosenthal, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1985

Old Address Book, Barbara Rosenthal, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

48 unnumbered pages. Cover title. "March 1, 1985"--page [4] of cover. At head of back cover: list of four other books by B. Rosenthal. Photocopy of the author's old address book. Stapled. Black & white printing. Gift of Jan Baker.


In Case Of Emergency, Scott Mccarney, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1984

In Case Of Emergency, Scott Mccarney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

pamphlet stitch variation with shaped pages and fold outs, enclosed in a triangular wrapper; cover; first opening; flat view; folded out; detail . When folded, the book wrapper represents a nuclear hazard warning. Inside the pages unfold in a dizzying confusion as images of planes and bombs are revealed.


Duane Michals : Photographs, Sequences, Texts, 1958-1984, Duane Michals, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1984

Duane Michals : Photographs, Sequences, Texts, 1958-1984, Duane Michals, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

104 pages : illus. (some color), ports. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, December 9, 1984-February 3, 1985 and other museums. Text: Marco Livingstone ; also includes an interview with the artist. Bibliography: p. [98-100]


The English Book, Paula Hocks, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1984

The English Book, Paula Hocks, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

60 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) . "... created during a season in London and Oxford, 1983-84." "This book is a limited edition of 1000 copies, of which the first 250 copies have been signed by the artist"--Title page verso Alphabet book containing both upper- and lower-case letters in different fonts and sizes. Each letter is illustrated with collaged images (photographs, maps, calligraphic texts, newspapers, illuminated letters, ticket stubs, newspaper mastheads, book covers, magazine illustrations, stamps, and stickers). Hand-colored by the artist. "Printing is by XEROX 8200 duplicator on Strathmore Bond papers, printed by the Sunflower Bookstore ... …


A Domestic Besitary, Judith Hoyt, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1984

A Domestic Besitary, Judith Hoyt, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[20] pages : illus. Printing method: Etching. 100 rag paper. Binding: Sewn signature. Structure: Codex. Limited edition of 90 signed and numbered copies.


Joe, Brad Freeman, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1984

Joe, Brad Freeman, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

staple bound, paper cover with cloth spine; front cover; page spreads; pg 39. edition size unknown, gift of the artist


Night, Patty Tyrol, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1983

Night, Patty Tyrol, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Printing method: Silkscreen, collagraph. Binding: single signature sewn pamphlet. Printing method: Silkscreen, collagraph Binding: single signature sewn pamphlet


Badogoodog, Mary Katherine Allan, Dandilion Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1983

Badogoodog, Mary Katherine Allan, Dandilion Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[12] pages : color ill. Edition of 100 copies. Cover decorated with curled strands of wire. Library has no. 92.


Abuse Of Power Comes As No Surprise, Jenny Holzer, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1983

Abuse Of Power Comes As No Surprise, Jenny Holzer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[156] pages. The Nova Scotia pamphlets ; 3 Nova Scotia pamphlets ; 3. Folded poster (44 x 36 cm folded to 22 x 18 cm) inserted after last page. Cover title. On spine : Truisms and essays. Text in English, German, Spanish and French. RISD Alumna, MFA. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.


In And Around The House, Laurie Simmons, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1983

In And Around The House, Laurie Simmons, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

[16] leaves : all ill. "Designed by Yolanda Cuomo"--Inside front cove c. 2 Gift of CEPA Gallery.


Implosion, Kathy Acker, Mark Magill, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1983

Implosion, Kathy Acker, Mark Magill, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

28 pages : illus. (some color). Wedge pamphlet ; 1


From Partial Portrait, Roberta Allen, Wedge Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1983

From Partial Portrait, Roberta Allen, Wedge Press, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

12 pages. Wedge pamphlet ; 7


Beyond The Page, Carol Barton, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1983

Beyond The Page, Carol Barton, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

spiral binding, die cuts; page spread 4-5; page spread "at dinner table"; page spread "gloves on table"; page spread "woman in bathroom". copy 142 of 200, signed by the artist


Book 91, Keith A. Smith, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1982

Book 91, Keith A. Smith, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 24 leaves each strung together with linen cords. An art work, without printing except for the embossed t.p. Termed a "string book" in the artist's Structure of the visual book, 1984, p. 95. Its leaves are strung together with linen cords and punched with holes to create varying effects of light and shadow when viewed with a single light source.


A Visit From St. Alphabet, Dave Morice, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1982

A Visit From St. Alphabet, Dave Morice, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations. "Composition & rubyliths by A.B. Presswork by A.K. Poliphilus, type on Ragston. 2,000 copies in this second printing."--Title page verso St. Alphabet slides down the bookcase, fills the pages, and rides off on his "A." Title page printed in green, black, and red. Pamphlet stitch, red paper wrapper with illustration. Inscribed in pencil to Jan, from Lorraine, dated 12.1985. Gift of Jan Baker.


A Performance, Ida Applebroog, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1981

A Performance, Ida Applebroog, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

7 vols. : chiefly ill. Titles from covers ; volume 1 has no separate title. Last vol. is inscribed: "End of magnum opus, Ida Applebroog, 1982" [vol. 1] -- [v. 2] It's very simple -- [v. 3] Stop crying -- [v. 4] I can't -- [v. 5] I mean it -- [v. 6] So? -- [v. 7] The end (on backcover).


Emotional Reactions, Janet Zweig, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 1981

Emotional Reactions, Janet Zweig, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

47 pages : illus.. RISD Faculty.