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Scope and Contents Artists’ books are works of art in the form of a book. This collection consists of over 80 artists’ books created between 1970 and 2017. It includes works by famous artists like Kara Walker, Barbara Kruger, Chuck Close, and Ed Ruscha as well as emerging artists during the period. There are also two reference works that provide intellectual context for the collection: Freedom of the Presses: Artists' Books in the 21st Century and Creating...

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"Tiny Underdog City: An Uncomprehensive Guide is a hand-bound hand-colored book of linocuts and digitally printed text. The cover text was screen printed. The book is a guide book for the imagined Tiny Underdog City, where everyone lives in the outskirts...."--from meganpiontkowski-illustration.com

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One in a series on street art created by Francis Van Maele and published by Redfoxpress.

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"With Drift, Catarina Leitão assembles a sequence of pen and ink drawings in which the detritus of modern civilization--fallen airplanes, helicopters, aluminum cans, and gas masks--are inundated by thick vein-like tendrils. Separated by hand-drawn frames, each drawing reads as a fragment from a larger graphic narrative set in some kind of futuristic junkyard."--from the CUNY catalog record

Scope and Contents "These are pictures of signs and graffiti, any kind of found text, mostly from New York but also from other cities I have visited over the last two years. A forest is cool or warm, very alive, filled with organic matter, soil and plants and decomposing leaves. A forest is filled with smells: mud, sharp pine, dusty pollen. Signs feel cold, inorganic, mathematical, from the other side of the brain. The city--as a place, as an idea--is a forest of signs, a merger of these two groups, if we...

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"Artist Mark Pawson constructs each copy of PAPER PAPER from the protective wrappers used by wholesale paper merchants, who use these colorful logo-printed papers to wrap the paper they sell. Each book is a one-of-a-kind artwork with one of two different covers (both shown in the accompanying image)."--from printedmatter.org

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"The second issue of Killing Time is a collaboration between Nate Silverstein and Andrea Paustenbaugh, who together compiled sixty pages of found images depicting various types of clocks and then shot them with a gun. The resulting artists' books are all slightly different, having been used as targets, and illustrate a violent, if ineffective, revolt against the tyranny of the clock."--from bookbookpress.com

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"Osama Bin Laden was killed May 2, 2011, in Abbatabad, Pakistan, where he lived for six years. Since that day, more than 1,465 people have reviewed Bin Laden's 'Hideout Compound' on Google Maps, rating the location between one and five stars. Average rating: 3.2 stars. Many individuals also submitted written reviews. On February 4, 2014, I downloaded these reviews and collected them into this book."--from the opening page of the book

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"Accordion structure. Printed on both sides. Horse power was letterpress printed with photopolymer plates, wood type and vintage ornaments by the artist. This edition includes 15 copies printed on handmade horsehair paper. Signed and numbered by the artist. This is number 25."--from the CUNY catalog record

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"From July 19-26, 2012, I checked out every available book in the New York Public Library written by an author who committed suicide. I stamped each book's title page with this information and exhibited the collection in How to Write a Novel at Field Projects, NYC. At the end of the show, all the stamped books were returned to general circulation at NYPL."--from the colophon