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Following the evolution of the book, book arts and book art
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rbolick · 7 days ago
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Books On Books - Thomas A. Clark and Diane Howse
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rbolick · 15 days ago
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Books On Books Collection - Heidi Zednik
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rbolick · 16 days ago
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Books On Books Collection - F. Gene Wilson
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rbolick · 17 days ago
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Books On Books Collection - Jonathan Safran Foer
Tree of Codes (2011) Tree of Codes (2010) Jonathan Safran Foer Perfect bound paperback of die-cut pages. H220 x W135 mm. 284 pages. Acquired from Visual Editions, 30 January 2014. Photos: Books On Books Collection. The artist’s book “tradition” of excising words from the page goes back at least to Marcel Broodthaers’ and Mario Diacono’s renderings of Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira le Hasard by…
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rbolick · 18 days ago
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Books On Books Collection - Hubert Kretschmer
The material aspects of the book as well as its properties as a form of communication lies at the heart of many artists’ books. The same is true for magazines and newspapers and the artists who take them on as their palette and canvas. For finding examples of print works exploring the medium in its own right, Hubert Kretschmer’s exhibition catalogue Objekt Magazine Object (2018) provides a useful…
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rbolick · 2 months ago
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Books On Books Collection - Helen Yentus
On Such a Full Sea (2013) On Such a Full Sea (2013)Chang-rae Lee Jacket and slipcase designHelen YentusBook in slipcase. H23o x W150 mm; slipcase only, W110 mm. 368 pages. Edition of 500, of which this is #178. Acquired 1 October 2018. Photo: Riverhead Books and AIGA. Riverhead art director Helen Yentus and members of the MakerBot team designed this slipcase for Lee’s novel. An edition of 500,…
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rbolick · 2 months ago
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Bookmarking Book Art - Helen Yentus
  On Such a Full SeaChang-rae Leecredit: Riverhead Books “This limited, numbered edition of Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea will be available on January 7th, 2014. Riverhead art director Helen Yentus and members of the MakerBot team designed the slipcase, and 200 of them will be made with the MakerBot® Replicator® 2 Desktop 3D Printer with MakerBot PLA filament, a bioplastic made of corn,…
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rbolick · 2 months ago
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Books On Books - Marlene MacCallum (II)
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rbolick · 3 months ago
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Bookmarking Book Art - Ouroboros Press
“Folding Plates in Esoteric Literature” William Kiesel, founder of Ouroboros Press, has an insightful essay with impressive examples of the “fold out��� device here. Among the examples are Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Age and Codex Rosicrucis Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Zoroaster’s Telescope: The Key to the great divinatory Kabbala of the Magi Napoleon’s Book…
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rbolick · 3 months ago
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Bookmarking Book Art - Movables Now and Then
In July this year, a video was posted as if in response to the conclusion of Kyle Olmon’s “Movable Book Artists” in Parenthesis 31 (2020): There is little in the way of scholarship and criticism in regard to pop-up and movable books. Part of this is the stigma of being represented as a commercial novelty product or kiddie book by twentieth-century publishers. The explosion of artists’ books in…
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rbolick · 3 months ago
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Books On Books Collection - Jessica Drenk
Bookmarking Book Art - Jessica Drenk
Carving 9 (2021) Carving 9 (2012) Jessica Drenk Altered book and wax. H203 x W152 x D38 mm. Unique. Acquired from the Seager Gray Gallery, 10 February 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the gallery. Once a book becomes another material from which art can be made, the rectangular block offers itself up to an unbounded variety of treatments. It can be folded into something else. Or macerated and squeezed…
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rbolick · 3 months ago
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Books On Books Collection - Chisato Tamabayashi
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rbolick · 3 months ago
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Books On Books Collection - Tim Mosely
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rbolick · 3 months ago
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Books On Books Collection - Chris Ruston (II)
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rbolick · 3 months ago
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Books On Books Collection - Katsumi Komagata (II)
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rbolick · 3 months ago
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Books On Books Collection - Helen Siegl
Herball from The Dialogues of Creatures Moralised Applicable and edifying to every merry and jocund matter, and right profitable to the governance of men. [Ascribed to Nicolaus Pergamenus and Mayno de’ Mayneri. First printed in Latin by Gerard Leeu in Gouda in 1480 & in English in 1535.] (1979) Helen Siegl Hardcover in mustard colored cloth with a paper label to the spine; with 11 woodcut…
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rbolick · 4 months ago
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Books On Books Collection - Carol Barton
Land Forms and Air Currents (2014) Land Forms and Air Currents (2014) Carol Barton Leporello (with 11 pop-ups) fixed to inside cover of case, cloth over board, debossed with fitted, pastedown artwork on front cover and spine. Cover: H292 x W192 x D50 mm. Leporello: H275 x W175 mm. 37 panels. Edition of 25, of which this is #21. Acquired from the artist, 27 October 2023. Photos: Books On Books…
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