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uispeccoll · 2 months

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#VoicesFromTheStacks

Image: Self Portrait with cranes from Hope Project (Photo credit: Clarissa Sligh)  

The Artist Books of Clarissa Sligh

In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting artist, writer, and lecturer Clarissa Sligh. Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Virginia, Sligh is often inspired by cultural, historical, and political events that intersect with moments in her life. Sligh considers these interactions, or “collisions,” between moments in history and events in one’s life to be significant and transformative. One such example of this is detailed in Sligh’s work “It Wasn’t Little Rock,” which discusses desegregation in public schools during the 1960s, a personal topic for Sligh, who was the lead plaintiff at the age of 15 in a school desegregation case.    

Images: Cover and inside page of "It Wasn't Little Rock" (2005)

A notable example of Sligh’s work and its reference to her personal experiences is her 1988 artist's book titled “What’s Happening with Momma?” Here, the artist engages users to “walk” through rooms of her childhood home, following the steps of accordion-folded strips of paper filled with text detailing memories of her sister’s birth in the home. This is Sligh’s first artist’s book, made through the Women’s Studio Workshop in New York.  

Images: Cover and inside page of "What's Happening with Momma" (1988)

Sligh earned a BS in Mathematics from Hampton Institute in Virginia, a BFA and an MFA in visual arts from Howard University, and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. Earlier in her career she had worked at NASA in the manned space flight program, eventually leaving to focus on working as an artist. Her works have been featured all over the world, notably at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and more. To learn more about Sligh and her works, visit the artist’s website.

Images: Cloth enclosure, cover and inside page of "Voyage(r): A Tourist Map to Japan" (2000)

Images: Left: Inside page of "Reading Dick and Jane with Me" (1989). Right: Cover and origami crane for "Transforming Hate" (2016).

– Kaylee S., Special Collections Olson Graduate Assistant

#uiowa #libraries #special collections #uiowaspecialcollections #rare books #voicesfromthestacks #artist books #Clarissa Sligh #black history month

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uwmspeccoll · 5 months

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Milestone Monday

In celebration of National Cookie Day today, December 4th, we’re sharing Scott Teplin and Mark Wagner’s charming book Fortune. Published in 2000 by Birdbrain Press and Urst Books in Brooklyn, N.Y. in an edition of 100 copies, Fortune is a playful analysis of the predictions found in, and etiquette of eating fortune cookies.

Teplin and Wagner are both originally from Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1995. They are prolific artists, but it seems Fortune is their only collaboration perhaps in conjunction with the 2000 Artists Book show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Special Collections holds several other books from the artists, including Teplin’s Pope Ivory’s Brain Juices and Wagner’s Smoke in My Dreams, Fortune’s Daughter: An Allegory of Greed, or, Midas, and Souvenir.

Fortune is a single sheet accordion folded book mounted to the front cover. The front and back cover boards are bound with red ribbon.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#milestone monday #national cookie day #fortune #scott teplin #mark wagner #birdbrain press #urst books #accordion book #artist books #fortune cookies #cookies #milestones

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kolajmag · 1 month

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COLLAGE ON VIEW

Lei, Cromatica

Mary A. Decuzzi at Teco in Palermo, Italy through 24 March 2024. Cities inspire different color schemes. In Sicily, the blues, greens, yellows, oranges, browns, and beiges created this series of collages that express the spirit of the island in different hues. Through the perspective of the female body, Mary A. Decuzzi presents new shapes, textures, natural elements, and fully covered surfaces in twenty original handmade pieces created with fashion magazines from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and today. Color lovers are welcome! Read More

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formicalage · 5 months

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The latest collage artist book I've made at our Cut 'n' Paste events at 182 Art Space.

#artist books #collage #paper collage

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allisonanne · 3 months

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februllage day 4: warmth

handcut paper collage on matboard for februllage this year, i'm making an artist book that brings together all my work for the month. follow along each day in february, and read more about my project here! februllage is an annual collage project that's taken place since 2019! it's a collaboration between the scandinavian collage museum and edinburgh collage collective. find the prompts and join in by visiting @februllage on instagram!

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gregdotorg · 9 days

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Four books from the collection of the late artist Jason Polan are being sold together as the The Catcher in the Rye Collection, including the Catcher; Richard Prince's perfect repetition of Catcher; Eric Doeringer's bootleg edition of Prince's version; and my book, The Deposition of Richard Prince, which is related because it is about the copyright infringement trial Prince was involved in at the moment he decided to put out his own edition of the most copyrighted book of the 20th century. This Deposition edition from Bookhorse in Zurich is the easiest to read and the hardest to find of my books.

#richard prince #jd salinger #eric doeringer #the deposition of richard prince #appropriation #the catcher in the rye a novel by richard prince #artist books #jason polan rip

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hyperallergic · 1 year

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With the new year inevitably comes a slew of anticipated books lists, but many of us read independently of the publishing world’s schedule. Now is the perfect time to return to notable art books published in the past couple of years, of which there is no shortage.

Twelve titles on our reading list inquire about the practice of mudlarking, “cyberfeminism,” Lenape artists in New York City, and witchcraft in the age of technology.

See our full list!

#art #art books #books #publishing #reading list #artist books

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artistonamission · 2 months

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Artist Books...

Leaning how to make simple fold artist books...

#abstract art #artist books #learning through play #printmaking #photography #experimental art #digitart #artinstallation #drawing #creativity

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fashionbooksmilano · 8 months

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Arienti pondus100 copie numero 5

a cura di Maria Morganti

fotografie di Stefano Arienti, Roberto Marossi, Niccolò Gandolfi, Giacon Daguanno, Massimo Kaufmann

grafica Lorenzo Fioranelli

copia numero 21 / 100

Pondus Associazione Culturale, Milano 208, 56 pagine, 12,2 x 16,9 cm

euro 80,00

email if you want to buy : [email protected]

Nel 2016 nasce a Milano – da un’idea di Silvia Barbieri e Massimo Kaufmann – pondus100copie, una collana di libri d’artista, curati di volta in volta da critici, artisti, scrittori e poi numerati e firmati in cento copie. Una tiratura molto limitata dedicata a collezionisti e appassionati d’arte che è già preziosa testimonianza del nostro tempo.

Solo 100 copie, numerate e firmate, come delle grafiche. Le prime dieci diventano proprietà dell’autore, e dalla numero 11 alla 100 sono a disposizione.

23/08/23

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#Stefano Arienti #pondus 100 copie #numero 5 #Massimo Kaufmann #artist books #rare books #fashionbooksmilano

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arron-foster-studio · 8 months

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Into and out of.

Enclosure book with archival digital media, collage and silkscreen.

6”x6”

2017/18

Unique/sold.

A little meditation on the play of light on water.

Made in 2017/18, this book is an extension of a body of work that I created, wherein I marked my daily interactions with the Cuyahoga River in Kent Ohio through drawing, print, photography, installation and animation. (See last slide for an additional example).

The book combines original photographs of the River with monotype and silkscreen.

In all these works were made as means of understanding and advocating for my (new to me at the time) local environment,(among many other things).

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#contemporary art

#ohio

#ohioartist

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#printmaking

#arron foster #artists on tumblr #kent ohio #printmaking #people of print #ohioartist #art #contemporary printmaking #contemporary art #alternative photography #book art #artist books

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uispeccoll · 8 months

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#MiniatureMonday #TinyTuesday!

School Supplies

I think we all can agree that one of the best things about going back to school is new supplies! Whether it be notebooks, planners, pencils or pens, there is nothing quite like finding the perfect new things to carry you through the school year. Here are some minis that are perfect for the start of the new school year.

The first miniature is five leaves of blank notebook paper attached to metal rings, perfectly sized to fit inside the blank blue binder. The creator of this binder is not identified, but I like to think they made this little binder to send their mouse friend off to school with.

Next is a beautiful handmade notebook bound in soft brown leather with a gilt flower design stamped into the front cover. With lovely blank cream paper inside, this notebook is the perfect handheld size to carry around and jot down thoughts as they arise.

Originally made for the third Miniature Book Society Conclave held in LA in 1985, our third mini is a daily planner. With “Things to do today” printed largely at the top and a numbered checklist on the page, this would be an excellent way to keep your day organized!

-Kaylee S., Olson Graduate Assistant

Charlotte Smith Miniature Collection

TS1250 .T45 1985

TS1250 .M56

TS1250 .B53 1900z

#uiowa #miniaturemonday #history #library #special collections #miniature books #UiowaSpecialCollections #notebook #planner #artist books

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ghost-shepherdess · 2 years

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Richard Long

Nile (Papers of River Muds), 1990

Nile is a limited edition book printed by the Lapis Press, Los Angeles.

"For the paper used in Nile (Papers of River Muds) the pulp was mixed with mud from rivers around the world, producing pages in different shades of brown. (...) the name of each river used in the paper-making process has been printed onto the corresponding page of the book. The rivers are: Nile, Umpqua, Hudson, Murrumbidgee, Mississippi, Indragoodby, Jordan, Condamine, Avon, Chitravathri, Amazon, Rhine, Guatiquia and Huang He."

"Referring to the Avon as his ‘home’ river – since it runs through Bristol, where he was born – Long says: ‘I suppose I’ve always been fascinated by rivers, because I grew up in Bristol. I’ve always liked looking at the tide … Water, it’s like a circle. I can use it as a vehicle for many ideas.’ (Tufnell 2007, p.70.)"

more info at the Tate website

#one of my fav artist books ever !!!!!#since ive been making artist books and work on local river & their historical deities & the connection people have to local water bodies #id love to incorporate water from those places into the artworks and artist books (a little nod to Long !)#richard long #artist books #bookmaking #tongoe nabiagoi #w

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kolajmag · 16 days

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FROM THE PRINT ISSUE

Evolving Collage Practice

Anna Innocenti reflects on the time she spent as an artist-in-residence in Sanquhar, Scotland. She writes, "More than a year later, I am aware of the extraordinary impact that this Artist Residency brought to my collage work, all touched by some novelty in the use of materials, the selection of the photographs or the chosen subjects." Read More

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Kolaj Magazine, a full color, print magazine, exists to show how the world of collage is rich, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing history and culture, collage artists forge new thinking. To understand collage is to reshape one's thinking of art history and redefine the canon of visual culture that informs the present.

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formicalage · 4 months

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Couldn't resist making another one of these artist books from things sent along with submissions to The Rubber Postcard.

#mail art #artist books #artistamps #postage stamps #rubber stamps #collage #paper collage #handcarved stamps

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allisonanne · 9 months

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it's leo season! artist book made as a gift for my leonine love sam's birthday last week the pages are made from matboard, and the book is bound with hand-waxed vintage embroidery floss using a single-page slipknot method. each page measures about 3x4 inches (fits in one's hand)!

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laureljaycarpenter · 11 months

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"10 Together" WINS Best Publication Award at PQ2023

In their beautifully crafted book, the authors document and critically question the 10 years of their collaboration across time, across national and continental borders, and against cultural expectations. Playful and poetic in their practice, Longva and Carpenter explore basic human needs in a variety of settings, often physically tasking. They pose questions about the rare and raw predicament of being a vulnerable and fragile human in a world in crisis. —Pavel Drábek, Best Publication Award curator with jurors Donatella Barbieri and Aziza Kadyri

The PQ Best Publication Award 2023 was announced as part of the awards ceremony at the Prague Quadrennial festival in Prague, CZ, 13 June 2023. On stage with the Jurors (L to R): Pavel Drábek, Aziza Kadyri, Terese Longva, Laurel Jay Carpenter and Donatella Barbieri.

Introducing the book at the Shortlisted Author’s Roundtable, PQTalks, the evening before the awards ceremony.

We are grateful!

#performance #performance art #art #artist book #monograph #live #artist books #pq2023 #pq best publication award #prague quadrennial #visual art performance #pq awards #prague quadrennial 2023

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