Browse Items (796 total)

"Ah So, Stateside" Clipping

IMG_2426a.JPG
A Newark Advocate clipping from March 25, 1946. While the caption claims it shows Mahard heading home, according to letters from Mahard to Marian during his time in Japan, that is not the case. In fact, it is a staged photograph of Mahard in the "Ah…

"In Memory of Those Denison Men Who Gave Their Lives to Our Country, 1941-1945" album insert

box-36-ww2-intro-sheet.jpg
Album written insert, written in calligraphy. Reads: "This is a collection of photographs of the fifty-five Denison Men who gave their lives in the Second World War"

"The Holy Bible: Containing All the Books of the
Old and New Testaments"

front cover of the artists book "The Holy Bible: Containing All the Books of the <br />
Old and New Testaments"
"The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible was designed & illustrated by Barry Moser. It was composed & printed folio by Bradley Hutchinson at his press in Austin, Texas ... The presswork commenced in the spring of 1997 and was completed in the autumn of 1999. The…

(No Words)

front cover of the artists book (No Words)
Juxtaposing historical images and photographs taken in the Pacific from 1994-2001, this book deconstructs the imagery of this highly mythologized region of the world. The sequencing of the images is organized by thematic issues such as death,…

#whrrth Five Odes on Absence

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…

1000 Artists' Books: Exploring the Book as Art

35108007274525.jpg
Explores the book as an art form, including various aspects of hand-crafted books: covers, bindings, scrolls, folded and origami structures, books made from found objects, altered books, and book installations, as well as books created from a variety…