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  • Collection: Artists' Books

Warsaw

Photo of artist book Warsaw by Barbara Milman
Chronicles the Holocaust experiences of Alexander Groth as told to Barbara Milman in 1994
Originally published as part of: Light in the shadows. Middle Village, N.Y. : Jonathan David Publishers, 1997
"The linocuts are from an edition I started in…

Un[Hood]ed

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Artist's book by Ginger R. Burrell
"Un[Hood]ed is printed on white vellum and Epson Premium Presentation paper with Laserjet and archival inkjet inks. The font is Consolas. Bound in quarter cloth hard cover with screw post binding." Un[Hood]ed is…

Uluhaimalama, legacies of Lili'uokalani : music and mana'o of Hawai'i's last queen

Photo of artist book Uluhaimalama  by Allison Milham
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(SECOND PLACE WINNER) Letterpress printed handmade artist's book / music project, housed in a clamshell box with postcards and lei-making kit. Printed from photopolymer plates and laser engraved wood blocks on cotton abaca handmade…

They Called Her Styrene

Photo of the cover of artist book They Called Her Styrene by, Edward Ruscha
Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha, one of the seminal American artists of the past 30 years, is known for taking elements from the visual language of advertising and commercial art: he has made hundreds of 'word' prints, drawings and paintings that…

Street of booksellers

Photo of artist book Street of Booksellers by Francis Jetter
"In Street of Booksellers the voices of long-dead poets continue to speak to us, from the 'heads, tails, spines and bodies' of books burned, broken, bulldozed and buried on Al-Mutanabbi Street, and other streets beloved of writers and…

The square

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"Egyptian uprising called for democratic reform. Tahrir Square in Cairo became the focal point and the most effective symbol of the protests in January and February 2011. For 18 days Egyptians repeated the slogan: The People Want to Bring down the…

Spectres of Liberty

Photo of artist book Spectres of Liberty by Olivia Robinson, Dora Greenwald, and Josh MacPhee
Two-color silkscreen print and photocopied zine. The zine contains the complete reprint of Rev. Henry Highland Garnet's 1843 "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America."

Mother Mother

Photo of artist book Mother Mother by Sheilah Wilson
"The 48-page paperback centers on this topic: Do Mother and Artist preclude each other? Included are artworks in varying mediums, ranging from a collage of pregnant women in labor, to pages out of a midcentury children's storybook, to an…

Mother Goose

Photo of artist book by Blanche Fisher Wright & Robert E. Wilson II
"Illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright are in the public domain. Text is from traditional nursery rhymes. Manufactured in the United States"--Colophon
"This book is a small collection of stories taken from the 1916 The Real Mother Goose by Blanche…

ANTARCTICA

Cover box of artist book Antarctica
ANTARCTICA combines fine photography with centuries-old binding techniques and state-of-the-art printing. The full-leather volume features 345 Keough images and weighs 27 pounds in its presentation box. This one and only edition is forever limited to…