Box 3

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

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...