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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.

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"In this collection of altered comic book stories from the 1950s, the original dialog has been removed, replaced by deadpan banter between male and female characters on the mythology of modern marriage, supermoms, over the-top weddings, and monogamy, and more. Interspersed are ads from the era, whose absurdity is left intact, in their original, unaltered state."from navaatlasart.com

Scope and Contents "Social Security Risk Machine explains the mechanics of this 'social machine': how it works, why it was created, where the money comes from, and where it goes. Most importantly, the poster shows the many adjustments that can be made to keep the machine running. "Social Security Risk Machine is the publication that led to CUP's development of the Making Policy Public program. Through this project, we realized that the fold-out poster could be a useful, portable format for...

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Subtitled "Years with No Acts of 'Open and Declared Armed Hostile Conflict' Are Indicated with a Perpendicular Line.... Perhaps They Were Periods of Peace," this artist book reveals human history as an endless sequence of war.

Scope and Contents "Mungo Thomson’s Einstein #1 is a comic book without characters, captions, or speech bubbles. Instead, it examines the technology-laden, distopic fantasy world of modern comics by focusing on its background imagery. Thomson mines his own collection of comic books, redrawing a series of comic cells in which he preserves the original artist’s style but omits the characters that would identify its origin. The result is not just a conceptual exercise; Thomson’s sequence of drawings form a...

Scope and Contents "Hand-sewn, hand stamped, hand-distributed--everything about Pawson's clever artist book bears the artist's hand, yet very little of it was made by the artist himself. Comprised of envelopes he has received over the course of two decades, the publication, which is trimmed to 5 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches and has a hand-sewn binding is a patchwork of colours, patterns and textures--an accumulation of different types of stationary, stamps, and text.... The artist, who began the project in 2003, will be...

Scope and Contents "The Cargo Chain is an organizing tool for longshore workers that shows the players and pressure points in today’s globalized shipping network. How do commodities get from factory to shopping mall? Who really has the power to move today’s global economy?... The publication has been used by longshore workers’ unions across the country, as well as the Railworkers’ Network. The steelworker’s union has used the poster as a model for their international solidarity project with the West Coast...

Scope and Contents "Published to coincide with Lisa Anne Auerbach’s 2008 exhibition at Printed Matter, this artist’s book brings together the various facets of Auerbach’s artistic practice, which has included zine making, co-organizing the High Desert Test Sites project, and knitting. Political, relational, humorous, and instructive, it offers the reader step by step instructions on how to knit sweaters and skirts that feature a variety of snappy slogans. ('When there’s nothing left to burn, you’ve got to set...

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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 Drips is a purely visual read on all things drippy and drawing flies. On one hand, a story of existential decay, a lonely hermit lives and works near the beach in a camper. On the other hand, this is a story about what gravity pulls to the ground like liquids, snot, sweat, oozy flesh, water and urine to substances that melt or spread like cheese or mortar. Also, a tale of what drips and drifts upwards from poisonous fumes produced by burning trash to the trail-blaze of a plane, charring...