DAAP Library Artists' Books: artists' book

The DAAP Library Artists' Book Collection

Artists’ books are works of art that are realized in the form of a book. Generally published in limited editions or as unique works of art, artists’ books can take many forms. For example, DAAP Library’s collection includes concertinas, games, painted cards, and quilts with text. Although book printers have experimented with unique looks for their products for centuries, the artists’ book is primarily a twentieth and twenty-first century art form.
Up until recently, there wasn’t a collection focus per se. Instead, we allowed the collection to develop in interesting ways. That said, recently we decided to establish a collection focus. We’re going to collect artists’ books which focus on cultural, racial, and sexual diversity, a focus that we feel aligns well with the interests of UC as an institution as well as the greater UC community. Many of the books in our current collection deal with diversity as a theme, particularly sexual diversity, and we hope to acquire many more artists’ books that promote or feature issues of diversity and multiculturalism.
We created this blog to increase awareness of and engagement with our lovely artists’ book collection. By making images of the books available online, we are sharing them with a much larger audience, especially those who are unable to view the books in person. A wider audience is especially relevant to our new collection focus on diversity issues.

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Karen Chance, Parallax

Printed on both sides of a strip folded accordion style. Atlanta, GA: Nexus Press, 1987.

http://www.thecontemporary.org/shop/

http://vam.ac.uk/

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.

http://www.artnet.com

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.

http://www.spence.net

Allan Kaprow, Pose - Carrying Chairs Through the City, Sitting Down Here and There, Photographed Pix Left on Spot, Going On

Seven leaves of plates in envelope. Occurred in and around Berkeley, California, March 22, 23, 1969. New York: Multiples, Inc., 1970.

http://www.printedmatter.org

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.

http://www.printedmatter.org

General Idea, Getting into the Spirits Cocktail Book: From the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion

From a first edition of 1000 copies. Toronto,
Canada: Distribution by Art Metropole, 1980.

http://www.viewoncanadianart.com/

Conrad Gleber, Raising a Family

Flipbook using a group portrait. Chicago: C. Gleber, 1976.

http://www.artistsbooksonline.org

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.

http://www.philobiblon.com/

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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Douglas Huebler, Location Piece #2: New York City, Seattle, Washington

Envelope, 19 leaves. [s.l.: s.n.], 1970.

http://www.arcanabooks.com/

James Hugunin and Theron Kelley, The Dumb Ox

A quarterly art journal, vol. 1 (Summer 1976).

http://www.uturn.org/

Joseph Kosuth, Notebook on Water

New York: Multiples, 1970.

http://www.arcanabooks.com

Conrad Gleber, Chicago Sky Line

Illustrations on each leaf form one composite image. Chicago: Chicago Books, 1977.

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Patricia Scobey, Mining of the Heart

Folded accordion style, illustrated boards, contains no text. [S.l.]: Landlocked Press, 1986.

http://loveandorterror.arizona.edu/

Gretchen Garner, An Art History of Ephemera Photographs 1976-78

Chicago, IL: G. Garner: Available from Tulip Press, 1982.

http://www.gretchengarner.com/

Ellen Lanyon, Transformations I: 1973-74

One sheet accordion folded. New York: Printed Matter, Inc., 1977.

Bonnie Stahlecker, Marking Time

Low-fired ceramic covers stained with watercolor. Sewn with an Ethiopian sewn boards method using four needles. Pages are intaglio, relief-rolled intaglio and letterpress printed on Somerset Book Heavyweight. Pages have additional hand coloring. Plainfield, IN: The Artist, 1997.

http://www.ulib.iupui.edu

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