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  • Collection: Artists' Books

Front cover of Artist's Book Fade to Gray
Color can be a journey. This book follows the journey from west to east, from suburban to urban, and from green to gray. Received Best in Show at the Democratic Book Exhibit at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair in 2008. 8 page accordion. Printed…

Cover box of the artist's book Things I have learned in my life so far
This book began as a list designer Stefan Sagmeister made in his diary under the title Things I have learned in my life so far...
With the support of his clients, Sagmeister transformed these sentences into typographic works, from billboards in…

Artist Book Nakazora scroll opened with images revealed and box cover placed next to scroll.
'Nakazora' is a Buddhist term that has multiple meanings, including "the space between sky and earth; a state when the feet do not touch the ground; the center of the sky; the zenith." This combination of definitions and implications leads one to…

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…

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."

The Square actual actual.jpg
"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…

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…

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…

Photo of artist book Uluhaimalama  by Allison Milham
Title from box
(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…
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