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Artists’ books are works of art in the form of a book. This collection consists of 67 artists’ books created between 1976 and 2012. It includes works by famous artists like Chuck Close and Ed Ruscha as well as young emerging artists during the period.

Scope and Contents "The Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. Over 55 people have been members over the years, some for weeks, some for decades. Our anonymity keeps the focus on the issues, and away from who we might be. We wear gorilla masks in public and use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the...

Scope and Contents "The Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. Over 55 people have been members over the years, some for weeks, some for decades. Our anonymity keeps the focus on the issues, and away from who we might be. We wear gorilla masks in public and use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the...

Scope and Contents "'It Wasn’t Little Rock' was the response that black students in Arlington, Virginia often gave when asked about their experiences in the newly racially desegregated public schools of the 1960s. It was short-hand for we might have problems but we are not being subjected to the unspeakable hatred that was showered on black students when they integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. White students spat on, beat up, yelled insults, destroyed black student lockers, threw...

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"Atomic explosions illustrate this otherwise decorative and useful folding fan with a tasseled slipcase. Through repetition of imagery, Neaderland reminds readers of the problems inherent in the testing of nuclear weapons: 'This is only a test' is a gross understatement in the case of nuclear bombs."--from printedmatter.org

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"This book uses the August 26, 2001 obituary page from The New York Times to create new readings of the existing text by isolating different words and lines. The visible and underlying structures of obituaries, families, society, and the qualities of life and death itself are explored revealing both the cold commonalities and the very personal specifics of the lives of the deceased."--from judithmohns.com

Scope and Contents "Reading Dick and Jane with Me is an artist's book created to interrupt the authority of old elementary school textbooks called The Dick and Jane Readers. These textbooks of the 1940s and 1950s, used to teach reading, presented a white upper middle class suburban family as normal life for most Americans. Although the average American at that time was working class, the artist as a young girl thought these depictions meant that her family must be an aberration outside normal family life....

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"Of the edition of forty books printed, this is number 6. This book was created using lithography, silkscreen, digital imaging, and xerox. The type used is Arial Unicode MS. The title is Times New Roman. Paper includes Rives Heavyweight, Kitikata, White Sekeishu, Epson Heavyweight matte, and whilte lightweight vellum. Hand bound and printed by Erika Adams in the spring of 2004 in Albuquerque, New Mexico."--from the colophon

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Tim Lokiec created the two artists' books in this file. According to Wikipedia, Lokiec is an artist based in New York City. And according to the New York Times, Lokiec's 2003 solo debut artworks had "remarkable visual and emotional intensity."

Scope and Contents "In Chicago After Dark, four artists take on the crime novel and deliver four very different spins on the genre. Punctuated by pages of Chicago street maps, this project from Sara Ranchouse Publishing is visually and intellectually brassy. Starting with Kevin Riordan’s fast-talking, wise-cracking '1948: An Orwellian Odyssey' with apocalyptic pop culture collage, the book takes a cinematic turn with Susan Anderson's 'Smoke and Mirrors,' told purely in black and white night photographs. Annie...