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Marbles For The John J. Harvey, Tauba Auerbach, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 104 pages. "In 2018 I was commissioned by Public Art Fund and 14-18 Now to dazzle the John J. Harvey, an historic fireboat in the New York Harbor. Built in 1931 and retired in 1994, the Harvey was rescued at a scrap auction by a group of maritime enthusiasts. Since then, the boat has been maintained by volunteers, operating as a small museum and offering free rides to the public. The Harvey became an unexpected hero on 9/11, springing back into service and pumping water for 80 hours. The story is memorialized in a Moira Kalman book. Dazzle …

Shimmer, Jule Claudia Mahn, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, slipcase, 48 pages . Author, editor, translator and imprint from colophon. Short story by Jule Claudia Mahn accompanied by the author's photographs. "Set in Pollen Regular, Pigment print on Awagami Inbe, Thin white Washi paper ... in an edition of 13 copies in German and XVI copies in English ... 14th book in the series 'Verwandte Objekte,' Leipzig 2018"--Colophon. Exposed thread binding in Hollytex non-woven fabric. Housed in a paper-covered case. Enclosed in same fabric slipcase. All housed in two-piece grey board binder, held closed with two orange rubber bands (31 x 18 cm).

Cacaform Birds, Yingchun Zhu, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

Third chapter (Key) is sealed. "The book contains three parts, the first containing doctored photographs that show these birds interacting with sepia cityscapes, alternately goggled at and overlooked by the passers-by. The second introduces us to each individual species through poetic verse, while the third section must be carefully unsealed by the reader in order to reveal how the Cacaform Birds came into being."--Publisher's description. Step into the world of Cacaform Birds - a world that exists a half-pace to one side of our own, at the confluence of imagination, art and reality. Within these pages we meet the 'Glowerspite' …

Are You An American?, Caleb Cole, Greer Muldowney, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

56 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) The authors have reworked pages with collages of a book originally published, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Single stapled signature, paper cover. Last two pages are advertisements from a later publication. SUMMARY "This found book, originally a collection of "classic" American texts published during a previous moment of crisis (World War II), served as the canvas we have altered to respond to the current political climate. Most notably, we redacted and reacted to texts by Thomas Paine, Theodore Roosevelt, the Declaration, and the Constitution with current media images, politically-charged headlines and vintage …

Little Red Witch : Little Red Riding Hood By The Brothers Grimm, Normandie Syken, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 58 x 63 cm. Adapted, retold, and illustrated by Normandie Syken. Library #7 of 10. Hardcover book has thirty three woodcuts and the text is screen printed. The cover is bound with red asashi book cloth and the image is a two colored screen print and hand painted on top. The book is bound with a stab binding and has custom endpapers. The story is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set during the Salem witch trials.

Quickly To The Glittering Horizon, Allyson Church, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

18 unnumbered pages : color illustrations . Cover title. "Two stories written and printed by Allyson Church in Providence, Rhode Island, 2018"--page [2] of cover. Edition of 3 numbered copies. Edition numbering sewn into back cover. Oversize, fabric book printed as Church's senior project for the Department of Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design. Incorporates silkscreen and letterpress printing, aquatint, hand sewing and embroidery. Different fabrics thoughout the work, some mounted or sewn onto other found, patterned fabrics. All pages handsewn into a beign, light canvas cover. Story themes include fairytales, surrealism, magical realism, sea life and dreams. Some found …

Quickly To The Glittering Horizon, Allyson Church, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

18 unnumbered pages : color illustrations . Cover title. "Two stories written and printed by Allyson Church in Providence, Rhode Island, 2018"--page [2] of cover. Edition of 3 numbered copies. Edition numbering sewn into back cover. Oversize, fabric book printed as Church's senior project for the Department of Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design. Incorporates silkscreen and letterpress printing, aquatint, hand sewing and embroidery. Different fabrics thoughout the work, some mounted or sewn onto other found, patterned fabrics. All pages handsewn into a beign, light canvas cover. Story themes include fairytales, surrealism, magical realism, sea life and dreams. Some found …

Goat Music, David Shrigley, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 audio disc : 33 1/3 rpm. + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : illustrations . Title from slipcase. Project co-ordinated by Marina Vranopoulou for the Deste Foundation. "Goat music is the documentation for David Shrigley's film, Laughterhouse, about goats whose cries sound like humans .. Comprising a picture disc and an artist's book, and published in a limited edition of 1000, Goat music includes recordings of the goats in the film as well as the soundtrack Shrigley composed to accompany the opening performance in Hydra."--Publisher's website.

Kin, Mark Dorf, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 16 pages. "kin is an artist book that explores the human perspective, what it would mean to be able to move outside of this perspective, and the paradoxes that are contained in this proposed point of view and gesture. The title opens with the final paragraph from Darwin's On the Origin of Species along with a reworking of the same text by the artist that takes on a less humanist angle: an angle that that embraces co-emergence and making kin with our surroundings (in the words of Donna Haraway) rather than the "war of nature" and the hierarchical …

The Acclimatization Society, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume. "The Acclimatization Society is a new limited edition pamphlet about birds that are local to New York City, their adaptations, and survival tactics. Focused on select native and invasive species in their urban habitats: the rock pigeon, red-tailed hawk, sparrows, and European starlings, the text also explores speciation--the process by which species adapt to circumstances, develop genetic mutations, and in time, evolve into new species. The title of the pamphlet references the voluntary associations in the 19th and 20th centuries that encouraged the introduction of non-native species into locations worldwide." Title from cover. "In conjunction with Avifuana: Birds …

Blink, Nearing Mongirdaite, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

144 unnumbered pages . Cover title. The winner from the Napa Flipbook Competition 2017 by Lithuanian artist Neringa Mongirdaite. Edition of 500 copies. Edition number from Printed Matter website. Offset printing. Perfect binding.

Your Name Is Safe, You Can Rest Now, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

5 folding panels . "Your Name is Safe, You Can Rest Now is a letter to my great-uncle Rikio who died in WWII explaining the impact that his death had on our family for generations. Every household in my family had this photograph of his funeral on their butsudan, a Buddhist altar. Rikio fought in the US Army Infantry 442nd Regiment which consisted almost entirely of second-generation Japanese Americans, and holds the record of being the most highly decorated unit in US Military History. While Rikio and others in Hawaii fought for the US, our family members on the mainland …

When Is Now, Alisa C. Banks, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 cylindrical box . Edition limited to 4 numbered copies signed by the artist. The wooden cylindrical box contains a sculptural representation of tightly curled hair. Text printed on paper is attached to the inside of the lid. The text is reproduced on an included pamphlet. "'When Is Now' questions the appropriate time to expect equal footing and humane action for marginalized populations. The basis of the text was conceived during a time of personal upheaval that coincided with the 2016 US presidential election and speaks to feelings of shock, denial, immobility, anger, helplessness, and sorrow concerning the ensuing political …

Spectacular Vernacular, Jessica Charlesworth, Tim Parsons

Artists' Books

1 volume, 152 pages . Living in a Material World, Parsons & Charlesworth at the Chicago Cultural Center / B. David Zarley -- Spectacular Vernacular / Parsons & Charlesworth -- Index of works -- Observe, Experiment, Speculate, Parsons & Charlesworth in conversation -- Agile Ciphers for Cultural Truths : a consideration of objects and their meanings / Lee Ann Norman. "Our Spectacular Vernacular artists book summarizes and presents our solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2016. Along with many photos of the exhibition and the process of its creation, the book contains Agile Ciphers for Cultural Truths, a …

Eight Questions: A Recipe For Change, Stephanie Copoulos-Selle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume. "The artist found eight shoe boxes in her parents' laundry room full of recipes--over 8,000. Each book has original recipe cards; therefore, each is a variant, as the recipes will be different. The recipes represent her family life growing up where she felt warm & safe 'inside the kitchen with soup on the stove and bread in the oven.' Today the environment she lives in is 'frayed, full of loose ends, and knots.' Using this backdrop of happiness that the recipes represent for her she presents eight questions for us about the current status of our society--Why can't …

Hair, Sun Young Kong, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume. Title from colophon. Title on cover in Korean. "Embroidery using hair"--colophon. Korean text is embroidered. Accordion folded, self cover. Limited edition of 20 + 1 artist's proof. Text in Korean, English translation on colophon.

Curio, Melanie Mauro, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume. "Curio was designed and printed by Melanie Mauro at The University of the Arts and Heirloom Press. The text is adapted from the 1868 collection of articles, Modern Women and What Is, and Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening". This book is printed using letterpress, screenprint and lithography on paper handmade by the artist" --Colophon. Includes inkblot imagery; some screen printed using black thermo-chromic ink that turns white when heated. Edition of 5, signed and numbered by the artist. Sewn on seven raised cords and bound in full white (alum-tawed) leather. Curio is a collection of "quotidian objects" that …

Memory Lame, Jessica Spring, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 portfolio (5 folded sheets). Title from portfolio. Statement of responsibility taken from publisher's website. Edition of 25 copies, signed by the artist. "The contents of Memory Lame build from a central pentagonal memory palace composed of metal ornaments, cuts and borders. Opposite are excerpts from Rhetorica ad Herennium printed on Magnani paper. Forgetfulness from Questions about angels by Billy Collins, ©1991, is reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. Common mnemonic devices tease our memory, printed on sheets of handmade Saint-Armand. Tucked in each chapter are illustrations of plants that aid cognitive function, printed on transparent abaca. …

Reading Closed Books, Sam Winston, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

3 volumes. Title from slipcase cover. "This is the first printing.. in an edition of 34 copies with 5 artist's proofs"--Colophon. "This book is printed using a HP Indigo press with GRACoL and Fogra certified HP Indigo Ink.. Hand binding by Haein Song.. Body text is set in Dante MT Pro and Pitch Sans. Book design by Matthew Appleton at Modern Activity with additional design assistance from Pietro Martini. Photography by Andy Sewell and Sam Winston"--Absorbing Light colophon. "Each book has a unique handwritten colophon and title page -- whilst these words were being written the sound of a printer …

Endless Bridge, Mikhail Mishin, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 80 pages. "A visual retelling of creation, Mikhail Mishin's Endless Bridge utilizes juxtapositions and stark comparisons in a narrative that spans from birth to death and back again. iPhone photos, newspaper clippings and other found materials are the vocabulary used in this book in which light is separated from dark, and order emerges from chaos, only to revert back into nothingness. Images in this book have the quality of archaeological artifacts, where the transient qualities of an inflated tarp, a light reflection on the pavement or footprint in the concrete are highlighted. We know what comes after, we …

Cb&S Swatch Book, Noah Breuer, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 22 unnumbered pages. Title provided by publisher. Edition of 100 numbered copies. Artist's book consisting of a swatch book structure with screw post. Polymer plate/letterpress-printed images are based on rubbings that the artist created from the source material; additional woodcut-printed imagery is used as well. "Published in 2018 by the San Francisco Center for the Book as part of the Small Plates Program. The woodcuts were designed and laser engraved by the artist and printed at both SFCB and the University of Oregon."--Colophon. "For the last two years, I have been producing printed works on paper and fabric …

Voyagers, Catanese, Melissa, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume. 'Voyagers' consists almost entirely of anonymous black-and-white snapshots of people in various postures of reading in living rooms, on beds, at the beach, eating breakfast. We can't see what these readers are thinking, but Catanese occasionally breaks the hypnotic typological rhythm to reveal a new photographic element - a pyramid, a starry night, sunlight blindingly glowing through a window - giving us brief glimpses of the readers' potential narrative journeys. A wordless book with the size and feel of a vintage paperback found at a flea market, 'Voyagers' reminds us of the power and intimacy of our relationship …

In Search Of Communication, Usman O. Oladeinde

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This thesis examines the work included in Usman Oladeinde’s MFA thesis exhibition. The goal of this thesis paper is to explore major themes such as communication, identity, change, centeredness, landscapes, and language. These paintings present Arabic letter forms transformed into illegible shapes which are painted on landscape backgrounds, often depicting an aesthetic of textual elements receding into space. All these works are inspired by the Qibla, which is represented in the abstract and painted using acrylic media. Occasionally image transfers are mounted on the painted surface.

Visual representations like mine are communicative without forcing the viewer to one specific idea. …

Living Tradition: Contemporary Ethiopian Christian Art From The Sobania Collection, Neal Sobania, Charles Mason, Nina Kay, Andie Near, Raymond Silverman, Tom Wagner

Kruizenga Art Museum Exhibition Catalogs

Produced by Storming the Castle Pictures for the Kruizenga Art Museum as a catalog for the exhibition “Living Tradition: Contemporary Ethiopian Contemporary Art from the Sobania Collection,” September 21 – December 15, 2018. Photography by the Kruizenga Art Museum, Neal Sobania, Raymond Silverman and Tom Wagner. Design by Tom Wagner.

Kruizenga Art Museum Online Collection - Exhibition Gallery

Good Game, Greyory Blake

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic …

French Wallpaper Decors: Papiers Peints In Homes Of The American South, Christine Speare

MA Theses

French wood-block printed wallpaper is a very unique mural art form, yet often neglected. With this historical lack of attention, few academics have devoted themselves to the study of the topic, especially in the United States; and yet, wallpaper can reveal so much about past styles, settings, and collectors. Due to the historical changes in fashion, natural aging, weather, war, and neglect, a considerably limited number of collections continue to hang in situ in the American South in relation to the abundant examples found in the Northeast that have been better documented. Yet, the South’s historic affinity for all that …

Read ’Em And Eat讀好書 吃美食, Hetty Cunningham

AMBROSIA 客道 : The Magazine of The International Culinary Institute

Top tomes to provide food for thought

啟發美食巧思的佳作

Artists’ Books Collection Development: Considerations For New Selectors And Collections, Courtenay Mcleland

Library Faculty Presentations & Publications

In the 2010 survey Taking Our Pulse: The OCLC Research Survey of Special Collections and Archives, artists’ books were the specific genre most often identified as a new collecting area within library special collections departments.1 For librarians at institutions without an artists’ books collection, beginning and sustaining the growth of a new collection can be an exciting and challenging opportunity to become acquainted with an additional area of specialized knowledge. Other librarians may be at institutions that possess a fledgling collection of artists’ books but find that collecting priorities or guidelines need to be determined prior to more active collection …

All Around Us, Anne Giangiulio

Selected Works Temporary Series

Grandpa says circles are all around us. He points to the rainbow that rises high in the sky after a thundercloud has come. “Can you see? That’s only half of the circle. The rest of it is down below, in the earth.” He and his granddaughter meditate on gardens and seeds, on circles seen and unseen, inside and outside us, on where our bodies come from and where they return to. They share and create family traditions in this stunning exploration of the cycles of life and nature.

In Bold: A Digital Publication, Marlena Ahearn

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

In Bold is a millennial-targeted digital publication that discusses and critiques body positivity, fat activism, and how mainstream media presents and talks about bodies. The website is a destination for women seeking resources, inspiration, and entertain