Box 4

Scope and Contents "I moved to New York from Los Angeles and fell instantly in love with The City. I'd visited Paris and Rome, Chicago and Miami, but New York was The City. And it felt like home. The city also looked and felt alive, offering mysterious bits of beautifulness everywhere I looked. In 2003, I started taking pictures of steam coming out of the streets and sidewalks. I was mildly obsessed. We didn't have steam like this in L.A. so I set out to capture every permutation of it: seeping, spewing,...

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"This text is an artist's book created by Andy Warhol in 1981 at Christmas time for Berkeley Reinhold, the cousin of art-advocate Henry Geldzahler. Beginning with a simple outline and embodying a flipbook-like genesis, abstract drawings by Warhol become increasingly recognizable as the artist's dollar sign."--from the CUNY catalog record

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This book by artist Unnar Örn documents the slow destruction of unprotected archival materials the artist had collected for an art installation about house plants in Reykjavik.

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Created by bestselling author, Jonathan Safran Foer, this book is a cut-up version of the author's favorite novel, The Street of Crocodiles, by Bruno Schulz. In cutting up the original author's text, Foer said that his book is "a small response" to the original book or "a continuation of its creation," that he felt that what he created was "a gravestone rubbing" or a transcription of a dream of the original book.

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This book documents the journey the artist, Ingo Giezendanner, makes from Zurich to a town called Baku. The artist says it is his statement "to go out, see the world and avoid airplanes. Take your time and enjoy the view on your train ride."

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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.