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Ice Farming, Josh Tangen, Fleet Library, Special Collections

4th Student Artists' Book Contest 2018

No abstract provided.

The Secret Doors, Runqi Zhu, Fleet Library, Special Collections

4th Student Artists' Book Contest 2018

Laurie Whitehill Award

Thank You For Your Interest In This Subject, Paul Soulellis, Library Of The Printed Web, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Graphic Design

46 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, 28 cm. Cover title. "Printed Web Crisis Editions, February 2017" "A selection of web pages at whitehouse.gov before and after January 20, 2017."-- page [4] of cover. Page-by-page comparisons of 21 whitehouse.gov web pages from the Obama and Trump administrations on issues such as civil-rights, women, education, seniors and social security, disabilities, immigration, veterans, climate change, health care, etc.

A Basket Is A Reminder, Aimee Lee, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 24 pages . Cover title. Unique copy. "A basket is a Reminder celebrates baskets and their overlooked role in creating and advancing human culture and life."--colophon. Pages of handcut handmade paper, laminated. One side is made of iris leaves; the reverse is of milkweed parts (seeds, coma, pods, bast fiber, inner stalk), cutouts, ink on handmade laminated paper (iris + milkweed). Text inkjet printing on handmade yucca paper. Sewn binding. Covers of walnut inked hanji basket rolled onto Arches Cover paper. Laid in four-fold wrapper with title printed on front flap. Plant harvesting and processing, papermaking, writing, and …

The End: A Summing Up, Peter Norton, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

72 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm + supplemental video book with video file (approx. 5 minutes) + earbuds + scorpion sculpture in case.. "The format of this project -- the book, the excised sculpture, and the scorpion theme -- were inspired by an original art work, shown below, by Robert The." (page 70 of printed book) This set was produced in an unnumbered edition of 2000. Includes scorpion sculpture that had been excised from the printed book. It is inspired by an original artwork by Robert The. Includes video book that plays when opened. Includes earbuds and volume …

Trump Circus, Louise Odes Neaderland, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portraits. Paper cover sleeve with cut-out windows. Two sheets of illustrations designed to slide in and out of the sleeve. Edition of 24 numbered and signed by the artist. "Artist ... Neaderland responds to the Trump presidency: a cage-like sleeve provides frames for images of Trump, clowns, and wild animals as two interchangable viewing cards slip through the structure."--Vampandtramp.com (distributor's website).

The Gravity Series: 3 Canticles Of Attraction, Casey Gardner, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

3 volumes : color illustrations, maps Cover title. "Words, images, printing and binding by Casey Gardner"--Colophons. Limited edition of 39 copies, signed by the artist. Three books in an artist-made, cloth-covered portfolio with full-size title label on the front. The inside of the portfolio has letterpress-printed illustrated lining paper with astronomical images. Each book is a single signature sewn into cloth-covered boards in different colors with a letterpress-printed label on the front cover. The three books are held magnetically in place on either side of the portfolio. 1. How to fall -- 2. All there is -- 3. A star …

Reconfigured Families, Alexander Mouton, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

110 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations Title page and size of book designed in the format of a Southwest Airlines boarding pass. Edition of 25. Reconfigured Families follows the experience of one 21st century family, sometimes referred to as the "postmodern family" or even the "brave new family," through photographs that document the long-distance relationship I share with my two children who have been living in Bloomington, Indiana during the school year while I reside in Seattle, Washington. This sequence of images was made during our monthly travels to be together over the six-year period 2009--2015. During this time, …

Intertidal, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; Brain washing from phone towers informational pamphlets. Title from cover. "Printed in an edition of 200 from linoleum blocks and handset metal type during the fall of 2017. Third in a series of three on the history, ecology, and communities around Jamaica Bay."--page [2] of cover. Continuous illustrations on each side of the folded sheet. Accordion fold binding, text hand sewn into cover. "Brain Washing from Phone Towers, Informational pamphlets, Fall 2017, New York City, Sarah Nicholls, pamphleteer"--Page 4 of cover. Library has copy no. 72, initialed by the artist.

Color Of Day, Sound Of Night, García Sinclair, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

22 unnumbered pages Edition of 20 numbered and signed copies. Poems. Digital printing, perfect bound. Library has copy 9, signed and dated by the author. Purchased at Unbound 2018. RISD Alumna, BFA Sculpture 2015, MFA Printmaking, 2018. Fleet Library at RISD Alumni Collection.

A Thought On Monsters, Ryan Alves, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume : color illustrations . Caption title. Signed and dated inside back cover. Unique book? A collection of eleven mini-comics. Eleven signatures sewn into a case binding. Marbled paper on cover.

Fordlandia, Katia Fiera, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

8 unnumbered pages : all color illustrations. Cover title. Edition of 20 numbered and signed copies. Each page made from illustrated fabric with a photographic image printed on the fabric. Each page has sewn green thread border. Black, patterned, rubber cover material. Title lettering is cut out of the front cover, the artist's name and publication date is cut out of the back cover. Bound with two small brass bolts. Fordlandia was a town built on land aquired by by Henry Ford around 1928 along the Tapajós River in Brazil. Ford's plan for this factory town was to produce rubber …

Fledged, Lauren Koenig, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

2 unnumbered pages, 6 folded sheets, all parts are housed in a blue leather strap cover with a single tie. Title from invoice and confirmed by Tia Blassingame. "Fledged by Lauren Koenig is a collection of five myths behind the Aquila, or eagle, constellation. Contained in a leather cover, the booklets were letterpress printed on Rives Bfk and Chinese Heather papers using linocuts, handset letterpress, and a digital reprint of an original monotype"--Tia Blassingame, instructor. "Designed, printed and bound by Lauren Koenig in the spring of 2017 for Scripps College Press as part of the Art 135: Typography and Book …

A Recuerdo For Ste. Ostrich, Lois Morrison, Julie Chen, Elizabeth Collins, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 object with removable objects. Title from cover. Edition of 50 numbered copies. Date of publication from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website. House-shaped, shrine-shaped structure with front cover as doors that open to a three-dimensional scene with a movable part using pull tab and a pullout drawer containing miniature artifacts to the satirical story, a shovel and bucket of sand. Pullout drawer with artifacts and colophon. Printed letterpress on a variety of papers including paper made at Papeterie Saint-Armand.Book and artifacts made and assembled at Flying Fish Press. "A recuerdo for Ste. Ostrich was written and illustrated by Lois Morrison, …

Flyway, Sarah Nicholls, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume 8 pages. "Second in a series of three about Jamaica Bay. Edition of 200. Printed letterpress from metal type and lino blocks in July & August 2017"--Colophon. Four folded sheets (24 x 30 cm) lift-up from the printed text pages to reveal large, color illustrations. "Brain Washing from Phone Towers, Informational pamphlets, Summer 2017, New York City, Sarah Nicholls, pamphleteer"--Page [4] of cover. Accordion fold binding.

I Desire You Would Remember The Ladies, Vanessa Nieto Romero, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 8 folded sheets of muslim fabric each containing one booklet. Title from cover and colophon. Edition of ten copies, numbered and signed by the artist. "The contemplative action of folding, unfolding and revealing is evoked in this book as a way to praise and remember the labor of immigrant women and how these historical facts resonate in our contemporary political arena. The texts are letterpressed printed, using polymer plates, and the photographs are laser printed on Washi Natural heavy weight of 80 g/m2. The covers are made with muslim fabric, which was used for the sac pillows in …

Intrusion, Ellen Knudson, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 volume, 18 double leaves. "Intrusion is a modern bestiary that illustrates the conjured effects of human encroachment on nature and wildlife. These contemporary beasts are the amalgamation of animal bodies and environmental abuses - the illustrated outcomes of the human excesses of plastic bottles and bags, the unrestrained consumption of goods and the inordinate amount of garbage it creates, the imprudent disposal of decor and furniture, the overuse of water and the naive assumption that water is forever guaranteed, and the evolution of disease that is the consequence of carelessness "--Artist's statement, Vamp & Tramp, bookseller's website. "Text adapted …

Strange Bodies: Hybrid, Text, And The Human Form. Prints From The Sheldon Museum Of Art, Alison G. Stewart , Editor

Zea E-Books Collection

Catalogue for the Sheldon Museum of Art’s exhibition “Strange Bodies: Hybrid, Text, and the Human Form," selected and curated by Professor Alison Stewart’s “History of Prints: New Media of the Renaissance” class during the fall semester of 2016 in the School of Art, Art History, & Design at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Each of the eleven prints offers a different understanding or take on the body. Some are grounded in the physical and social aspects of humanity, while others present the body as a site for fantastic imagination and performance. Still others reference the printed page as a “body.” Whether …

Multisensory Tristram Shandy, Cynthia N. Malone

English Faculty Publications

An absorbed reader typically pays little conscious attention to the visual, tactile, and sometimes aural sensory experiences of reading. Unexpected formal and visual features of Laurence Sterne’s nine-volume fictional narrative, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, startle readers out of absorption and call attention to familiar operations like decoding black figures on white paper and turning pages. My edition of Volume I is designed to engage the senses through its visual structure, textures, and unexpected materials (buttons, marbled paper strips, and ribbons) and through formal surprises (interpolated documents, accordion-fold inserts, and paper lace). In its structure …

Nasty People: An Illustrated Guide To Understanding Sex, Sophia Weaver

Senior Honors Projects

Sex made me and it probably made you too, but for many of us sex remains a mystery for our entire lives. I see sexual images every day, but I rarely hear it discussed openly or factually. This is problematic. If most people are having sex and most people have a lot of misinformation about it, STDs, unwanted pregnancies and even sexual assaults are much more likely. Research suggests that increased (and well developed) sex ed. can reduce all of the possible negative outcomes of sexual misinformation. My observations of everyday life and my research in academia have given me …

Art Beyond The Object? Art Beyond Grad School? (A Kickstarter Fundraiser): Help Me Complete My Mfa And Kickstart My Life As An Artist., Hsini D. Leary

Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this paper and Kickstarter project is to enable the production of my last semester’s work and thesis exhibition, and also to aid in the post-graduation transition to a sustainable art practice that does not rely on the current gallery structure.

Silhouettes Of A Silent Female’S Authority: A Psychoanalytic And Feminist Perspective On The Art Of Kara Walker, Angelica E. Perez

The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research

The focus of my research centers on the contemporary work of Georgia-based artist, Kara Elizabeth Walker. In conducting extensive research on the life of the artist as well as three select artworks which recall the antebellum slave era within the south, I argue the explicit presence of the power of the enslaved prepubescent girl and young woman. The three select works that I intend to analyze are Burn, a cut-paper silhouette on canvas created in 1998, The Invisible Beauty, a mixed media piece made in 2001, and Cut, a paper cut-out silhouette made in 1998.

In a …

The Poet's Corpus: Memory And Monumentality In Wilfred Owen's "The Show", Charles Hunter Joplin

Master's Theses

Wilfred Owen is widely recognized to be the greatest English “trench poet” of the First World War. His posthumously published war poems sculpt a nightmarish vision of trench warfare, one which enables Western audiences to consider the suffering of the English soldiers and the brutality of modern warfare nearly a century after the armistice. However, critical readings of Owen’s canonized corpus, including “The Show” (1917, 1918), only focus on their hellish imagery. I will add to these readings by demonstrating that “The Show” is primarily concerned with the limitations of lyric poetry, the monumentality of poetic composition, and the difficulties …

Campfire Delights, Tarah Catalano

The Anthology

Artwork

Water Lady, Rachel Sullivan

The Anthology

Artwork

Flexographic Printing Of Conductive Silver Inks Onto Pdms: Surface Treatment And Novel Processes For Creating Printed Electronic Devices, Michael James Joyce

Dissertations

For the continued advancement of the field of printed electronic (PE), there is a need for a better understanding of the interactions between functional inks and substrates, which is required to optimize printability, mechanical, and functional properties for the creation of more robust and efficient printed devices. This body of work aims to advance the knowledge of the material properties of poly-di-methyl-siloxane, PDMS, films, their interactions with flexo inks, and their flexographic printability. As the printing of metals (i.e., Ag & Au) is a known area of interest pertaining to PE, this work focused on the characterization and optimization of …

Nuanced Translations: The Search For Unity Between Text, Image, And Self In Oscar Wilde's Fairy Tales, Jana Purington

Senior Theses

Few scholars have invested much time studying Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, focusing primarily on their place within the fairy tale genre, their morality, and queer themes latent in the stories. Fewer still examine them as visual, rather than merely literary, texts. Many of these ways of understanding his tales provide valuable insight, convincing interpretations, worthwhile avenues for thought, but by considering the artistic elements of Wilde's work, we can appreciate the cross-fertilization of his abstract, theoretical Aesthetic principles and the tangible objects he produces. Even among the subset of critics who do emphasize the visual aspects of Wilde's books, attention …

Full Issue, The Anthology

The Anthology

This is the entirety of the 2015 Winthrop Anthology issue.

Florentine Bookbinding And Restoration, Emily Erin Purcell

Senior Theses

Florence, Italy is a hub for art and literature. These two disciplines come together in the tradition of bookbinding, which is alive and well in Florence. A city that appreciates its own rich culture, Florence maintains many traditional practices and crafts, such as bookbinding and metalworking. The Florentines preserve more than just practices, though. The numerous museums in Florence work to physically protect and store pieces of art, artifacts, and documents. All of this preservation was challenged in 1966, with the flood of Florence’s Arno River. The flood destroyed countless manuscripts, books, and pieces of art. With this devastation, a …

Mathematics And Origami; Unfolding Mathematical "Impossibilities", Dustin Tyler Adams

Celebration of Student Scholarship Poster Sessions Archive

No abstract provided.