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  • Collection: Artists' Books

front cover of the artists book Melting Point
Publisher's Description
“At the height of the Cold War in 1950s Iowa, we did duck and cover air raid drills in school. Crouching under my desk with my hands folded over my head, I remember wondering that if the atomic bomb could melt my flesh right…

z-fold of the artists book Memories of Autumn
Accordion-fold book. Brown rice paper over boards with mounted piece of wood and leaf. Collage and monoprint over various other prints. - from publisher's website. One-of-a-kind.

z-fold of the artists book Memories of Gardens
One-of-a-kind accordion book with green rice paper over boards and ceramic button sewn on front cover with silk ribbon. Collage and monoprint over various other prints. Mixed media.

artists book Memory of Al-Mutanabbi Street opened up
Created for the "An inventory of al-Mutanabbi Street" Project to commemorate the 2007 car bombing on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, which was the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community. More than 30 people were killed and…

front cover of the artists book Minivan
Black and white photographs of 14 minivans with accompanying haiku texts by Kaufmann. Oblong sewn wrappers and printed silver metallic dust jacket.

Artist's book Modern Home & Garden opened up
A tongue-in-cheek look at the values of modern urban life. A luxury condominium dwelling unfolds and grows from a colorful extending pop-up book whose text extols the virtues of triple-mint living while the garden book beside it opens in artificial…

artists book Modern-Day Watermarking opened up
This pamphlet was published in 2005 by Helen Hiebert of Enlightened Papers; the watermarks were hand-cut using Sure Stamp, available from www.dhamatrading.com; the paper was made on a Tim Moore laid mould; Diane Jacobs of Scrantron Press letterpress…

front cover of the artists book Most Excellent Canopy
Title from colophon. Limited ed. of 100 copies. "Quotes: front, Henry David Thoreau; rear, William Shakespeare. Astronomer illustration, Joseph Moxon, A tutor to astronomy and geography, 1674; Milky Way photo, NASA-JPL."--Colophon. Folded triangular…

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…

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…
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