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Geography Of Lost, Emma Sheffield, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2021

Geography Of Lost, Emma Sheffield, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

12 leaves (interleaved) : color illustrations. "Edition of 18"--Colophon Unryu white paper and Strathmore tracing paper pages with Haijiro cover paper. Digital images and letterpress text on two overlapping pamphlet stitched signatures in a trifold cover inside a Khadi paper phase box enclosure. Letterpress printing completed at a residency at In Cahoots, Petaluma, CA. "The text is a poem inspired by an article on Lost Person Behavior, the science of knowing where to search for someone based on which of 41 profiles applies. Implicit in my poem are hard things, feeling forlorn when contemplating a family history of depression, substance …


Fairmont Color Card: Fcc, Sarah Bryant, Special Collections, Fleet Library Jan 2021

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 Jan 2021

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 Jan 2021

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 Jan 2021

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 Jan 2021

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 Jan 2021

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 Jan 2021

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


Playing At The Crossroads Of Religion And Law: Historical Milieu, Context And Curriculum Hooks In Lost & Found, Owen Gottlieb Jan 2021

Playing At The Crossroads Of Religion And Law: Historical Milieu, Context And Curriculum Hooks In Lost & Found, Owen Gottlieb

Articles

This chapter presents the use of Lost & Found – a purpose-built tabletop to mobile game series – to teach medieval religious legal systems. The series aims to broaden the discourse around religious legal systems and to counter popular depiction of these systems which often promote prejudice and misnomers. A central element is the importance of contextualizing religion in period and locale. The Lost & Found series uses period accurate depictions of material culture to set the stage for play around relevant topics – specifically how the law promoted collaboration and sustainable governance practices in Fustat (Old Cairo) in twelfth-century …


The Moxon Tennyson : A Landmark In Victorian Illustration, Simon Cooke Jan 2021

The Moxon Tennyson : A Landmark In Victorian Illustration, Simon Cooke

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

A new perspective on a book that transformed Victorian illustration into a stand-alone art.

Edward Moxon’s 1857 edition of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Poems dramatically redefined the relationship between images and words in print. Cooke’s study, the first book to address the subject in over 120 years, presents a sweeping analysis of the illustrators and the complex and challenging ways in which they interpreted Tennyson’s poetry. This book considers the volume’s historical context, examining in detail the roles of publisher, engravers, and binding designer, as well as the material difficulties of printing its fine illustrations, which recreate the effects of painting. …