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Books On Books Collection - J. J. Abrams & Doug Dorst

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Bookmarking Book Art - American Academy in Rome

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Books On Books Collection - David A. Carter

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Books On Books Collection - Michael J. Winkler

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Books On Books Collection - Alberto Blanco

In this ode to the letter X, Mexico and language itself, Alberto Blanco and Nacho Gallardo Larrea brilliantly show how the artist’s book can translate word and image from one to the other and back and, at the same time, soar over the challenge of translating poetry. Book of X (2012) Book of Equis (2012) © Alberto Blanco and Nacho Gallardo Larrea (“El Nacho”).Slipcase paper-covered spine and…

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Books On Books - Thomas A. Clark and Diane Howse

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Books On Books Collection - Heidi Zednik

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Books On Books Collection - F. Gene Wilson

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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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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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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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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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Books On Books - Marlene MacCallum (II)

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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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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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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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Books On Books Collection - Chisato Tamabayashi