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  • Collection: Artists' Books

front cover of the artists book Plant Dyes from the Kitchen
Publisher location, name, and date from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website, viewed 12/20/11. Limited ed. of 75, signed and numbered by the artist. "These Japanese Uwa papers have been tested, torn, boiled, dyed, hung out to dry, sorted, torn again,…

close up of the artists book May Basket
Hand-cut leaves and flowers painted with acrylics and letterpress printed. The folded paper basket containing the flowers is a Hedi Kyle design. Laid in acrylic box. Limited ed. of 200.

close up of the artists book Invocation to the Water Spirits
"Miniature book. Title from last page. Book is signed ""Catherine Alice"", but web site states this book is by ""Catherine Michaelis"" (viewed April 5, 2006). The directions sheet and web site call this type of book a ""flexagon"". It is constructed…

artists book The Embrace of Rose (half) opened up
Edition of 75. Signed by artist. Letterpress printed text. Pressure printed roses. Pamphlet stitched binding. Red paste paper cover.

pages opened from the artists book Ingredients for a Night Blooming Garden
One sheet of brown paper enhanced for darker weave-effect, folded and slit to form 2 segments of accordion folds. First pg. printed with title; text in dark brown ink; ills. are relief prints of stones, leaves and blossoms on top of pressure prints…

front cover of the artists book The Stages of the Hajj
"A graphical representation of the pilgrimage to Mecca. Inspired by a collection of travelogues to Mecca, The Stages of the Hajj is a formal translation of the Muslim pilgrimage. On each page is a geometric representation of an obligatory activity of…

artists book Sporting a Giant Fly Head pages opened up
6 x 9"; 68 pages. Print-on-demand interior casebound book. In a four-color "psychedelic" letterpress printed dust jacket. Black and white photographs taken at Visual Studies Workshop. This is an intriguing and thoughtful discourse on the past, aging,…

front cover of the artists book Long Slow March
The book features a series of interconnected found prose in its beginning portions, then a photographic journey, then a reprint of the first several pages of the first section. [E. Rettberg]

front cover of the artists book Kandze Village Bodhisattva
Title from dust jacket cover. Printed and produced by the author at the Center for Book and Paper, Columbia College Chicago. "The book unfolds to two page-sized flaps. Inside the left flap is bound Nine Iterations, a 13-page booklet. The booklet's…

front cover of the artists book Illuminated by the Light of Television & Isolated by the Glare of Media
Illuminated by the Light of Television was first published as a DIY insert in The Blue Notebook, Vol. 3, No. 2, May 2009--sleeve. "Both of these booklets were produced and printed at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper in December…
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