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Intersection : Gion, Kyoto / Kyoko Matsunaga.
An edition of 30 copies, with 2 artist's proofs. ; During a single signal cycle at Gion intersection on March 17th, 2016 in Kyoto, Japan, dozens of people and cars passed each other with no lasting memories. Every seven seconds within that cycle, photographic images recorded this series of happenstance moments. The images were then reproduced and fragments removed, symbolizing how memories and events gradually recede from our awareness--Artist's statement, 23 Sandy Gallery website (accessed February 26, 2018). ; Leaves of Mitsumata Japanese paper have been inkjet printed with altered photographic images, letterpress printed with text, and treated with bees wax. Leaves are bound with the artist's original variation on the accordion technique, using paper tabs to attach leaves to a Japanese Harukaze paper cover and concertina structure. The binding is also treated with bees wax. Laid into a four-flap paper wrapper with rubber cord closure. Colophon is letterpress printed inside the paper wrapper. -
It's a man's world scorpion blues / Elsi Vassdal Ellis.
Cover title. ; Limited edition of 4 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. ; The men's shirt cloth samples were purchased at Josephine's Dry Goods, Portland, Oregon, September 2010. The cover fabric was cut from a shirt purchased at Good Will in Bellingham, WA. The illustrations are Photoshop cobbled-together scans of 19th century engraved images. The text {Bell MT} and images were inkjet printed onto the various fabrics via an Epson C88+--Colophon. ; Single pamphlet-sewn signature of fabric pages. -
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Journey / Alicia Bailey.
Copies are signed by the artist. ; Materials include paper (maps), ink, coverstock. ; Text excerpted from The Left Hand of Darkness ©2000, Ursula K. LeGuin--Container. ; Container includes instructions on assembling the book. -
Just a simple walk through the hills / Toni Mosley.
Materials include: paper, ink, thread. -
Kamo : stepping stones / Kyoko Matsunaga.
Title from inside box lid. ; Limited edition of fourteen copies, signed and numbered by the artist. ; A pivoting panel structure on Japanese paper, attached at either end to paper over boards. Digitally printed. Issued in a custom hinged box lined with Japanese suminagashi paper, with cut-out in the bottom holding a potsherd from the Kamo-gawa river bank. Title page attached to inside of hinged box lid. ; UR Libraries has limited edition copy number 10 of 14. -
La bête humaine / Poppy Dully
Accordion of rebound book pages. Original book published by Fasquelle (France) in 1953. Oil-based ink monoprints. Found text pages and Arches #150. 12 spreads. 5.75 x 6.75 x .75 inches. Extends out to 112 inches. Original book jacket. Signed by the artist. 2016. Unique--Prospectus. -
La leçon de broderie / Maglione
Title from label mounted on cover. -
Ladies first / Keith Smith.
Book number 288 Keith Smith 2013. ; Publication date from publisher's Web site, viewed March 9, 2017. ; VSW Press is honored to have reproduced a rare 'trade' edition of Keith Smith's one of a kind book Ladies First, his 288th title, from 2013--Publisher's website, September 30, 2019. ; Consists of a single sheet accordion-folded to form 34 leaves. Issued in a custom box (43 x 24 x 7 cm) with illustrated lid. ; One of Smith's great subjects over the years has been the male form rendered in a perfectly fine and sinuous drawn line. Frequently bringing together drawing with photography in his work ... another of Smith's tropes ... is the use of transparent material, film positives, as pages. Hand cutting various shapes directly out of the page created yet another form of window to reveal parts of other pages as one read ... the subjects of Ladies First are anonymous to Smith and any see-through parts are the work of digital tools ... Smith works here with images found online that he virtually draws on, paints, and sculpts rendering them his, originally. In Ladies First, Smith is in dialog with the history of art, although in his own distinctive way. The female subjects of formal 18th and 19th Century portraits take younger, wax chested male lovers or transition into men. This references both the practice of exclusively using male models for female subjects until the 19th C as well as our more recent recognition of those of us who are transgender--Publisher's website, September 30, 2019. -
Learning to fly / Bryan Kring.
Materials include paper, plexiglass, and book cloth. ; This piece was inspired by a love for the charms and simplicity of pre-cinema technologies--Artist's statement. -
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Lexicographer's view / Ann E. Kalmbach and Tana Kellner
Cover title. ; Another Kake Art Book--P. 3 of cover. -
Lexicon / William Kentridge
Text in Latin; colophon in English.
Cover title.
"Lexicon is a facsimile cloth edition of an antiquarian Latin-Greek dictionary [Graecum lexicon manuale, primum a Benjamine Hederico institutum. Londini, 1825] which the internationally celebrated South African artist William Kentridge (born 1954) has embellished with black ink drawings of what might seem at first to be animal silhouettes. In reproducing the work (which is uncollected elsewhere), this beautifully designed artist's book mischievously pits the model of the flipbook against the fragility of the antiquarian original, and flipping its pages animates Kentridge's lively, spiky drawings into a continuously morphing image that transforms from a cat to a coffee pot over the course of the book's 160 pages. This image is based on a disintegrating sculpture that reflects the artist's interest in the instability of objecthood. Lexicon is accompanied by a DVD containing a short film in which Kentridge flips the pages himself"--http://www.artbook.com/9780979764240.html -
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Linha Vermelha / Inés Bonduki
Single sheet in accordion-fold format attached to front board. ; Photos: São Paulo metro line 2013-15 and Contact Improvisation dance 2014 -- Colophon. -
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Lost horizons / Scott McCarney.
Part of 'Are we ready yet?', a series of book conceived post-9/11/01 addressing the shifting landscape, language, psychology, and politcs of national homeland security--Page 1. ; Single sewn signature featuring multiple gate-folded pages, sewn into an illustrated paper wrapper. Inkjet printed. Appropriated text and is arranged visually and printed over images. Signed by the artist. -
Magic sunrise / Heidi West.
Title and most descriptive information from accompanying artist's statement. ; Materials include: paper, vellum. -
Magnificent beast / Laura Russell.
Cover title. ; Limited edition of 25 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. ; Commissioned for inclusion in Just one look, an exhibition of contemporary book arts held in the Special Collections Division of the University of Washington Libraries from March 31-July 29, 2016. ; The title is taken from a line in the poem: To hurry and witness this last kill of the day--And such a magnificent beast--As if he were absent. He heard his name--Artist's website, September 7, 2016 ; Kevin Steele's multiple layer accordion structure, with orange, brown, and archival pigment-printed panels of Canson Colorline papers. Orange and brown panels have rectangles cut out of the middles, allowing the reader to view the images and text from multiple angles. Accordion structure is attached at either end to handmade paper-covered boards. The handmade paper, which is made to resemble animal hide, is by Andrea Peterson at Hook Pottery Paper. Front board has an inset paper label letterpress printed with the title. Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist in pen inside the back cover. Held together with a handmade paper belly band. Issued in a four-flap paper wrapper with title label attached to the front. The Art/Music Library has number 5 of 25. -
Manhattan street romance / Douglas Beube.
Cover title. ; Funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts. -
Material meditation on mending Al-Mutanabbi Street / Scott McCarney
Al-Mutanabbi Street, in Baghdad, Iraq, is the historic center of bookselling in that city. In May 2007, a car bomb killed more than 30 people and destroyed many bookstalls. ; This book consists of fifteen two-sided loose-leaf prints made from collages constructed from remnants of found books, rubbings from book bindings and photographs. The leaves are gathered into a tar paper folder. ; Signed by artist/author. -
McKenzie Pass, Oregon / Laura Russell.
"Book Three of my Show & Tell Chapbook Series is a love story. The poem shows the love of the open road, a bicycle, a landscape and a man, though not necessary in that order! The photograph is a panoramic moonscape shot at the top of a magical volcanic lava field in Oregon"--www.laurarussell.net.
Pamphlet stitch cover with stepped-fold accordion interior. Archival pigment print. Mohawk Superfine and Canson Mi Tientes papers, 4 x 6.75 x .125 inches. Extends out to 18.5 inches. -
Measuring time / Ephraim Asili.
"Measuring Time by Ephraim Asili represents a transitional period between the filmmaker's touring and screenings on the festival circuit for The Diaspora Suite and the completion of his first feature film, The Inheritance. While at the BlackStar film festival in his hometown of Philadelphia, Asili began making Polaroid portraits of his community and his interest in photographing expanded soon after. Research elements that play a central role in The Inheritance also factor in this notebook. A uniquely poetic work in its own right, this book and audio document the expansive cosmos around Asili's critically important films."--VSW Press website (viewed October 28, 2021)
Accompanied by 1 vinyl record audio disc, entitled "Addendum." -
Memories / [re]mixed / Myda Iamiceli.
Limited edition of 10. ; Memories / [re]mixed was written and designed by Myda Iamiceli using digital collages made from original photography of Weir Farm, in Wilton, Connecticut by the artist, and old family photos. The pages were digitally printed on Stonehenge paper and bound into an accordion book. The cover is made up of three maps: Wwir Farm National Park, Wilton, Connecticut; Havana, Cuba; and San Antonio de las Vegas, Cuba, where Myda's mother grew up.--Colophon. -
Memories of science / Dorothy A. Yule.
Signed edition of 50 copies. ; Numbered and signed by the author. ; Typeset in Garamond, Latin Condensed and Copperplate, designed with Adobe CS5 and letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine.--Colophon. ; Star maps ... by Susan Hunt Yule.--Colophon. ; Accordion folded structure held by paper sleeves on both sides; includes 5 pop-ups. Fitted into glass topped box with tray on the bottom for 3" cd. Full size cd included separately. Also includes a booklet titled 'Serving suggestions : practical considerations for enjoying your book', with illustrations by Susan Hunt Yule. ; Cds contain text set to music: Music by Doug Yule; lyrics by Dorothy A. Yule. Recorded, mixed and mastered at: Avast! Studio, Seattle Washington. Produced by Doug Yule and Jonny Mendoza. Performed by Big Red Dog.