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  • Collection: Artists' Books

Artist's Book Negative Sky opened up
Hard-bound collection of eight poems and essays based on a set of photographs found in a Taos, New Mexico novelty shop. The book was hand-sewn and printed by Lettre Sauvage Editions.

Front cover of the Artist's book High Tension: Montage '93
"Johanna Drucker, The Next Word: ""The pages of [High Tension] are cut at the edge in that triangular shape. It's about anxiety, and it pricks your fingers as you turn the pages."" Renee Riese Hubert & Judd D. Hubert, The Cutting Edge of Reading:…

Front cover of the Artist's Book Ojalá
"Philip Zimmermann: The narrative line of this book uses a combination of photoimagery and text to show the fear, fury and exasperations of life in and around Mexican border towns (but especially Ciudad Juarez) in these times of narco-terrorism. I…

Front cover of the Artists Book Sanctus Sonorensis standing up
"Philipip Zimmermann: ""Four-color offset lithography printed book was created as a series of two page board book spreads that minimize the visual distraction of a 'gutter' on the panoramic view of each skyscape. The edges of the book are rounded and…

Artist's Book Counting in Spanish spread open
Pamela Zwehl-Burke: "On a trip to Maneadero, on the coast of Mexico just past tourist country, the sea tossed groups of objects on the glittering sand, often as if in numbered sets for teaching. I'm still learning, as I have dear friends and a…

The Artist's Book #whrrth Five Odes on Absence spread open
Five Odes on Absence includes a poem of that title by David Baker with additional text from Vowels by Arthur Rimbaud. Photographs are of Giorgio Morandi ‘s Via Fondazza painting studio reconstructed in The Morandi Museum, D’Accursio Palace, Bologna…

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5.6 x 4 x 5.6" box containing folded-paper fortune teller structure and booklet. Four-sided down drop box with removable lid, cloth-covered with paper title inset on lid. 5 x 5" single sheet artist statement laid in with bibliography sheet adhered to…

Cover box and front covers of the Artist's Book Maneater
Four nested books: 4 x 5.25", one opening; 5 x 6.75",6 pages; 5.75 x 8", 10 pages; 6.5 x 9.25, 14 pages. Screen printed. Housed in a 7 x 10 x 2" cloth-covered custom clamshell box with tiger illustration on lid and titles on spine. Colophon slipped…

Front cover of the Artist's Book Read (Past, Tense) standing up
4 x 4.75”; 16 pages. Handsewn in red cloth over boards. Cover title of raised and impressed letters, seen from below the surface of the cloth, extends the theme of text and subtext. Signed and numbered edition.

This highly unusual artist's book…

Artist's Book A Diction z-fold fanned open
Offset lithography on paper; book cloth on millboard. Printed on Gmund Bier paper made of recycled beer labels, pulp and beer fibers (hops, malt and yeast).

Looks at the way we choose to deny our own realities through alcoholism, an addiction that…
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