Box 5

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.

"An interesting compilation of statistics about the US circa 1984 juxtaposed with those of contemporary agrarian cultures around the world give insight into the alarming differences between the technologically advanced First World and those it often considers uncivilized. The artist's choice to print on sandpaper plays on the word 'asperity,' calling upon us to determine what is uneven, harsh, and severe about these cultures."--from printedmatter.org

An award-winning book by architect and designer J. Meejin Yoon, Absence memorializes the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center through the invocation of absences with remarkable restraint.

A pop-up book of the alphabet, this book is remarkable for its simplicity, ingenuity, and surprising iteration of the form.