DAAP Library Artists' Books

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.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

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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