Friday, April 23, 2010
Gordon Matta-Clark, Circus: The Carribean Orange
A project sponsored by the Museum of Contem-porary Art, Chicago, Feb. 1978. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1978.
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Douglas Huebler, Crocodile Tears
Crocodile tears: (brief fictions re-sounding from the proposal in Variable Piece #70:1971 "to photo-graphically document the existence of everyone alive"). Published in connection with an exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. May 10-June 30, 1985. Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery: CEPA Gallery, 1985.
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http://www.spence.net
Allan Kaprow, Pose - Carrying Chairs Through the City, Sitting Down Here and There, Photographed Pix Left on Spot, Going On
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Christopher Knowles, Typings 1974-77
From a first edition of 1500 copies of which 1000 are softcovers and 500 are hardcovers. New York: Vehicle Editions, 1979.
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General Idea, Getting into the Spirits Cocktail Book: From the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion
Damara Kaminecki, The Slapdown
From a limited edition of 50 copies. Damara Kaminecki, drawing & concept, Jeremy Schmall, text ; Sara Parkel, Mark Wagner, Amy Mees, & Cat Glennon, production. Text of poem printed on p. 3 of cover. Further text printed on rectos and versos of 16 illustrations arms and hands mounted on accordion strips forming the spine of the book. Brooklyn, NY: Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2007.
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Daniel Buren, Les couleurs, sculptures; les formes, peintures
Halifax, NS: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; Paris, France: Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, 1981.
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Conrad Gleber, Chicago Sky Line
Patricia Scobey, Mining of the Heart
Bonnie Stahlecker, Marking Time
John Baldessari, Fable: A Sentence in Thirteen Parts
Mikhail Karasik, Rukavica = The Mitten: An Essay
Bound: two felt Soviet workers mittens as front and back covers, steel rings through punched holes, plexi guards, housed in blue and purple paper clamshell box. The mittens are printed silkscreen with images of the artists. The text on tan handmade paper is printed in Russian in letterpress. St. Petersburg (Russia): M.K. Publishers, 2001.
Laurie Simmons, In and Around the House: Photographs, 1976-1979
Ida Applebroog, But I Wasn't There
Terri Weifenbach, 21 May 1995: Instruction Manual No. 1
From a limited edition of 500 copies. A book of twelve reproductions of color copier prints and one original Type C print. Tuczon, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2000.
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http://www.antiqbook.com
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Anita Wetzel, Sea Ribbons
From a limited edition of 100 copies. Rosendale, NY: Women's Studio Workshop, 1983.
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Cerith Wyn Evans, Curves of the Needle
Cerith Wyn Evans selected tracks from Luis Barragan's record collection in his former private mansion, the Casa Barragan, mixed with the ambient sound of the house. The sounds accompany a series of photographs taken by Cerith Wyn Evans in Barragan's house, studio and garden. Vienna: Bawag Foundation, 2005.
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Jeffrey Brouws, Twentysix Abandoned Gasoline Stations
From a limited edition of 1000 copies. Santa Barbara, CA: Printed by Colorworks, 1992.
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Roni Horn, Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)
Each volume contains texts written in response to the same selection of Horn's titles/phrases. The annotaters are sculptor Louise Bourgeois, writers Anne Carson and Hélène Cixous, and film director John Waters. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
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http://www.infibeam.com
Scott McCarney, Memory Loss
Folded accordion style, binding consists of end boards and cord tie. Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1988.
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Anne Bell, Corrugations: Some Speculations on Australian Tin
From a limited edition of 35 copies. Poem by Anne Bell hand set in Spectrum Italic and text machine set in Grotesque cast by David Bolton. Linocuts printed by Katie Clemson. Designed, printed and bound by Claire Bolton.
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Pamela S. Wood, Gilded Wings
DAAP Library's copy is number 2 of 3. Commercial brilliant orange for title paper. Hand cut wings are commercial bright paper-edged with l8 kt guilding gold. Origami fold spine, non adhesive folded tabs hold in each wing. Tempe, AZ: Rare Hare Creations, 2005.
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Wilber Schilling, A Reminder: An Open Book Test
The colors correspond to the eight colors of the Lüscher color test. United States: Indulgence Press, 1994, Philadelphia, PA: University of the Arts, Borowsky Center for Publications.
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Carol Barton, Vision Shifts
DAAP Library's copy is number 427 of 500, signed by the artist. A pop-up artist's book. Photographically illustrated cover sheets with letterpress and cut-out widows. An ironic change in the backing photographs, set-up by the narrative letterpress, is revealed as each page is opened further. Philadelphia, PA: Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, University of the Arts, 1998.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Robin Bernat, Evidence of Living
Issued in an envelope, title from envelope. Sheet is printed and folded to produce a fortune telling "cootie catcher."
DAAP Library's copy lacks envelope. Atlanta, GA: Nexus Press, 1991.
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DAAP Library's copy lacks envelope. Atlanta, GA: Nexus Press, 1991.
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Claire Lawson-Hall, A Winter Garden
From a limited edition of 100 copies. Written, typset, designed, printed and bound by Claire Lawson-Hall at the Alembic Press, Marcham. Etchings by Muriel Mallows. Marcham: Alembic Press, 2001.
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Claire Lawson-Hall, An Autumn Garden
From a limited edition of 100 copies. Text by Claire Lawson Hall, illustrations by Muriel Mallows. Leaves mounted to form a "Jacob's ladder" with alternating text and illustrations on front and back of leaves. Marcham: Alembic Press, 2000.
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Claire Lawson-Hall, A Summer Garden
From a limited edition of 100 copies. Text by Claire Lawson-Hall and illustrations by Muriel Mallows. Marcham: Alembic Press, 1999.
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Diane Stemper, Dust Gardens, Or, The Unique Habitation of Menora
DAAP Library's cpoy is number 1 of 3. Created for the Lloyd Library and Museum exhibit "Mining the Lloyd;" highlights varied bacterial bouquets and the preferred household habitat in which to grow them. Oxford, OH: Plat 21 Studio, 2004.
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http://www.lloydlibrary.org
Marta Zylbersztejn, Las Cartas Guardadas
DAAP Library's copy is number 3 of 10, signed by the author. Bound in black cloth over boards with tuck closure; the book's title is repeated on a printed paper slip running along the bottom of the covers. Housed in black cloth box. Olivos, Buenos Aires: Marta Zylbersztejn, 2003.
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Julia Hall and Chrissy Leggio, Slaves of Christo
DAAP Library's copy is number 42 from an edition of 500. An account of the authors' experiences working for Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Gates project in New York's Central Park. Brooklyn, NY: Booklyn Artists Alliance, 2005.
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Laura Russell, Urban Decay Saginaw MI 48607, 8 Dec 2005
DAAP Library's copy is number 10 of 25, signed by the author. Limited-edition, hand-bound artist book. Original photo-graphs, poetry and text by Laura Russell. Digital printing with archival inks on archival paper. Flyleaves are stained by Tyvek. Interior pages burned by hand. Plywood covers hinged with book cloth. Portland, OR: Simply Books, 2006.
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http://www.laurarussell.net
Wyndham Lewis, The Role of Line in Art
The role of line in art : with six drawings to illustrate the argument / Wyndham Lewis, edited with an introduction by Paul W. Nash. DAAP Library's copy is number 30 from a limited edition of 166 copies. Witney: The Strawberry Press, 2007.
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Heather Weston, Borges and I
First edition of 20 copies now available in an open edition, DAAP Library's copy is no. 73, signed by artist. Text printed on black paper in alternating black offset and blind-embossing, the embossed text constituting a "subtext" of the whole. Accordion-folded between black cloth boards, with the title blind-stamped on the front board. London: H. Weston, 2001.
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