Category: Print types

Notes by Alyssa Minahan

Artist Book (Unique Photographic Objects, Including Unfixed and Fixed Gelatin Silver Photograms, Chemigrams, Polaroids, Emulsion Lifts, Film, Collages, Gelatin Silver Prints), 2017 – Artist’s website Link to Library…

3 works by Martha Rosler.

Martha Rosler traces the ways in which art draws its meaning from within its social and political frameworks. The book’s two artworks and a related essay exemplify and investigate…

Rugburn by Cameron Jamie

The inspiration for Cameron Jamie’s Rugburn is a late-sixties phenomenon known as apartment wrestling, in which participants staged wrestling matches at home, photographed them, and sent the photographs…

It Is Bitter to Leave Your Home by Romano Hänni

Edition of 87 numbered copies. Issued in a slipcase. “Overall production: Romano Hänni, Studio for Design, letterpress print shop. Letterpress, hand proofing press, five-color. 87 numbered copies (plus…

Agent Orange: an American legacy in Vietnam by C. David Thomas

Limited edition of 50, signed by the author. “The subject of this artist’s book is Agent Orange, the deadly, dioxin-contaminated defoliant used in Vietnam between 1961 and 1971. The…

Eight Questions by Stephanie Copoulos-Selle

Cover title. Publication information from vendor’s website. Edition of 35. Signed and numbered by the artist. “Fabric pages. Embroidery. Original handwritten recipes on cards. Letterpress text overprinted on…

Woman by Visionaire

Created by Visionaire. This issue consists of photographic reproductions by various contributors, all related to the topic “woman”; housed in specially-designed aluminum box (34 x 25 x 3 cm.)…

In War 1940 by Karen Baldner

Issued in a limited edition of 20 copies. Artist Karen Baldner teaches as an adjunct faculty member at the IU Herron School of Art and Design. “Letterpress and…

Fantasy by Visionaire

Thirty-six (36) circular cards, printed on both sides, and 1 fabric mask, housed in a round box, 33 cm. in diameter and 4 cm. high. Link to the…

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

Silk-screens by Sol Lewitt. Translation of: Ficciones. “1500 copies … printed by the Anthoensen Press [Portland, Maine] … [no.] 455.” Signed by the artist. Link to Library Catalog

VVVVV by Judy Rushin, Denise Bookwalter, Allison Milham, Michelle Ray, and AB Gorham

An edition of 200. 6.5 x 6.5″ four-flap cardboard box with colophon pastedown on interior base. Contains 12 double-sided 3 x 3″ blocks, each bearing a letterpress printed…

Celsius 233 by Philip Zimmermann

Limited edition of 50 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. “I started doing research on the history of book-burning after seeing video posted by the Islamic State/Daesh…

Unfolding Practice: Reflections on Learning and Teaching by Arzu Mistry and Todd Elkin

“Unfolding Practice: Reflections on Learning and Teaching is a conversation between two artist-educators. Flowing across five chapters, the double sided accordion book has been curated from ten years…

Numbers: Illustrations by Robert Indiana and Poems by Robert Creeley

English and German. Edition: 2500 copies. Link to Library Catalog

Maneater by Hannah Batsel

Limited edition of fifty copies, signed and numbered by the artist. Four nested books, all screen printed by hand in color. Housed in a black cloth-covered drop-spine box…

Persimmons: Li-Young Lee by Susan Angebranndt

Issued in paper box. Edition of 50. “Persimmons” poem by Li-Yuong Lee originally published in 1986.”–Colophon. “Printed letterpress on Canson & Fabriano papers in Centaur. The embroidered words…

Labor / Movement: (Seven Workers) by Amy Borezo

“Labor/Movement (seven workers) depicts movement visually in book form, while calling attention to the complexity of everyday human activity. The book tracks the motions of seven workers over…

Jail Box by Liz Canfield and Tobias Wilbur

3 pages cut-out in the shape of unassembled boxes, illustrated with 2 color typographical designs and illustrations printed on vellum paper. The pages are attached on one end…

Think Hatch

11 pages and nine gatefolds. Paper: French Dur-O-Tone Orange Butcher 80 lb. cover; Lynx Soft White 80 lb. cover. The cover and title page are created using various…

American Manifesto by Todd M. Thyberg

Cover title. Letterpress printed in three colors on a Heidelberg 10×15 Windmill at Angel Bomb in Minneapolis, MN., in wool and cotton papers. “With a tip of the hat…

The Golden Cage by Veronica Tucker

Black codex binding sewn with black ribbon. Gold colored wire mesh framed in a cut out on front cover. Title embossed on cover. White pages with red handwriting…

Correspondence: Sheet Music for a Common World by Regula Russelle

Title from container; publication information from dealer’s website. “… Box with 10 unnumbered translucent mandalaesque leaves (diptychs) laid in. Relief + monoprinting, letterpress, oil crayon on handmade abaca…

Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Christopher Hatton : the Dancing Chancellor by Alice Simpson

In accordion format within covers. Colophon pasted inside back cover. Edition of 60 signed and numbered copies. “Letterpress printed on Rives BFK tan mould-made paper on a Vandercook…

Lines & Color by Sol LeWitt

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God Created the Sea and Painted It Blue So We’d Feel Good on It by Michelle Ray

Basswood box (20 x 14 x 11 cm.) is attached to linen hardcover with embossed title and printed endsheet. Inside box are two compartments. One contains a tunnel…

Empress Bullet: An Allegory by Louise Odes Neaderland

Cover title. Accordion fold. 100 copies printed. Link to Library Catalog

Take a Walk on the Wild Side by Kristen Kennedy

Massachusetts College of Art student work Title from cover. Hand-printed pages describing the development of feet in the animal kindom with full-color text and illustrations. MCA: Kristen Kennedy,…

Momento Mori: Epitaphs collected and presented by Charles S. Lemmen, in November 1990, in the 25th year of his age

Massachusetts College of Art student work.  MCA: Charles S. Lemmen, alumnus. Accordion fold binding of woodcut designs printed on single-side of rag paper with pages artfully torn at…

Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes: Notations on a Landscape by Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke; translated by Stephen Mitchell; foreword by Dore Ashton; watercolors by Ellen Kozak. “‘Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes’ was originally published in The Selected Poetry of…

American Breeding Standards by Ellen Knudson

Edition of 60. American Breeding Standards explores the systemized rules about what comprises a good or bad horse, a good or bad woman and the steps one might…

Great Gams by Tatana Kellner

Edition limited to 100 copies signed by the author. Link to Library Catalog

Nice Knees by Tatana Kellner

Limited ed. of 100 copies. Each copy is numbered and signed by the author. This is copy 41. Link to Library Catalog

Jeez, Knees by Tatana Kellner

Limited ed. of 100 copies. Each copy is numbered and signed by the author. This is copy 50. Link to Library Catalog

Color Book, Hand Stamped by Robert Jacks

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Inner Workings by Laura Davidson

Consists of one continuous sheet of cream paper folded to form 6 p. with hand-printed lino cuts and other illustrations mounted on each page; bound in painted wooden…

Conversations in the Sky by André Lee

Issued in clamshell box. Accordion folded pages have single hole punched in each page throughout entire book through which a single orange thread is stretched; the thread is…

A Nuclear Atlas by Sharon Gilbert

Edition of 500. Link to Library Catalog

Souvenir Book by Laura Davidson

“Souvenir Book is a book about common objects that are also life symbols. There are two linoleum prints on each of the eight pages. One print on Rives…

Facade by Laura Davidson

“Facade is a limited edition artist’s book. The covers are wood and leather. … The prints are linoleum color reduction prints and black and white prints. Others are…

Primordial Forms by Elizabeth Castaldo

“Primordial Forms was designed, printed and bound by Elizabeth Castaldo at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta GA in December 2012. This limited edition artists…

Experiments in Paper: A Curated Exploration of Invasive Plants in Alabama as Based on Early Botanicals by Kate Barber

“Hard case with four-flap paper wrapper interior containing 12 individual sheets (5.5 x 8.5″ closed, 11 x 8.5″ open); [four-flap paper is printed and illustrated, too]. Typography is…

The Cave Protection Act of 2013 by Michelle Ray

“Written, designed, printed and bound by Michelle Ray at Small Craft Advisory Press and formLab, Facility for Arts Research, Florida State University”–Colophon. Limited edition of 35 copies. “7.5…

The Short Goodbye: {being an excerpted, expunged, & expurgated rendition of Mr. Chandler’s novel The Long Goodbye} by Raymond Chandler with Lisa Rappoport

Textured cover with two “bullet hole” impressions. 12.25 x 8.5″; 16 pages. Printed letterpress on dampened Rives de Lin. Bound in Metallic Black & Silver covers with Hahnemühle…

Food for Thought by Lynn Agnew and Mary Jeanne Linford

“11.75 x 5.75 x 5″ hinged wooden box containing 26 (3.5 x 4.75″) seed packets (fold over envelope style closure) and one colophon pamphlet. One ‘tag’ information page…

The Pop-Up Hand Shadow Book by Helen Hiebert

Cover title. “Gate fold with fold-out pop-up panels. Letterpress printed and laser cut paper pages, book board, cherry & plywood laser cut box featuring each animal in the…

Winter Book by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano

Title on spine. “6.5 x 5” double-sided accordion hinged by bookcloth. Digital photographs and mulberry paper on wood panels. Poem printed on the hinges. Stigliano: “I took pictures…

We Can Go Beyond It: An Artist’s Book by Bridget Elmer

Title from colophon sheet inserted in pocket of folding archival container. “Inspired by images generated from qEEGs of her father’s brain, the artist simulates the neurological process of…

Uniform Paper by Heidi Neilson

Cover title. Author information and date taken from colophon. An edition of 33 copies comprising only handmade paper. Each sheet of paper has a brief letterpress text describing…

Power Play by Susan Lowdermilk

Statement of responsibility from protective wrapper. Limited ed. of 35 copies. Structured as a workable, six panel Jacob’s Ladder toy. The book and protective wrapper are printed entirely…

Pont Neuf by Michael Kirby

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Paper Cut: Relief by Heather Weston

Weston transforms a complex psychological issue into the palpable reality of an artists’ book. The subject is dark– self-harm– the experience is untidy and frustrating– as it should…

Outland by Andrée-Anne Dupuis Bourret

Limited edition of 15 copies. Silkscreen print, embroidery and perforations on paper. Sewn stab binding. Black and gray illustrated paper wraps. Link to Library Catalog

Measure by Marcia Ciro

Cover title. “The images in Measure were printed on an inkjet printer using pigmented inks. The text in Measure was printed on letterpress during a residency at the…

Josephine’s Quilt by A. Barrow

Title from colophon. Includes rectangular motifs with cutout areas framed by blue lines. Link to Library Catalog

Indeed the Hunger = Tha Shein Ukrosh by Ann Lovett

Edition limited to 12 copies. Pigmented inkjet print on rag paper; concertina and pamphlet binding with black silk-wrapped hard covers and ribbon ties. The text flows from the…

Fossil Fuels by Michelle Wilson

“Collographs, intaglio, relief, hand painting, and hand embroidery. Text tip-ins are digitally printed on Hiromi Paper’s Asuka Natural using Century Schoolbook, and the endsheets are handmade denim paper…

Clea rsky by Bruce Nauman

Title from cover. Link to Library Catalog

Chair History by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano

Cover title. Illustrations also on lining papers and front cover. Bound in an accordian style. MCA: Stephanie Mahan Stigliano, alumna (MFA Painting and Printmaking: 1988). Link to Library…

Cell Memory by Macy Chadwick

Folded oblong pages with accompanying envelope. “Offset printed in grey and yellow ink on UV Ultra paper. Pamphlet sewn, enclosed in a shaped envelope with string, and fabric…

Associative Miscellany by Annie Silverman

Title on spine. “Asssociative miscellany is a compilation of woodcut and pronto plate prints on Japanese paper of bees from “The Honey Bee: a Manual of Instruction in…

October 1972 by Laurie Anderson

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Misunderstandings: A Theory of Photography by Mel Bochner

Issued in an envelope. Title from envelope. Link to Library Catalog

Fort Point Flora & Fauna by Laura Davidson

Artist’s book by Laura Davidson describing birds and plants sighted in the Fort Point section of Boston. Cover title. “This book was printed in an edition of 500 copies. I compiled…

Kunst Comix: A Phoney Art History by Barbara Leoff Burge

Eleven pictures parodying Russian icons, Indian Rajput paintings, and Japanese prints all dedicated to Arshile Gorky and Walt Disney. Edition limited to 75 copies. Link to Library Catalog

Personal Refuge by Marcia Ciro

Title from clear paper wrapper. Inkjet on Red River paper with MIS archival inks in an edition of 25. 12 copies. Each page has pull out tabs which…

Red Ages: A B.C.- A.D. by Angela Lorenz

Limited ed. of 150 copies. Printed on one side of a continuous strip (162 cm. x 87 mm.) folded accordion style; the ends of the strip form pastedowns…

Small Potatoes by Robyn Bell

“Forty-five copies of this book were printed”–Colophon. Link to Library Catalog

CrustaCea by R. D. Burton

Signed by artist “One sheet snake fold book. Manipulated digital images. Specialty papers. Inkjet printed. Laid in matching paper wrap with tab and slot closure.” From website. Link…

Blue Nude Ponders the Passage of Time by Leslie Atik

Fan binding flip book made of 3 x 5 inch index cards held together by aluminum screw fastener. Stamp of Matisse’s Blue Nude with color pen drawings. Massachusetts College of Art…

Social Insecurity by Emily Martin

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Suite Vénitienne by Sophie Calle/Please Follow Me by Jean Baudrillard

Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007. Please follow me. 1988. Link to Library Catalog

Visionaire. 39, Play

Editor-in-chief, Stephen Gan. Limited edition of 4000 copies. Consists of 16 artists’ flip books displayed in a wooden case. Contributors: Mario Testino, Baz Luhman, Steven Meisel, Pedro Almadóvar,…

Royal Road Test by Mason Williams, Edward Ruscha and Patrick Blackwell

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The Location of Lines by Sol LeWitt

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Reply (crumpled on her desk) by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano

Reply (crumpled on her desk) written by Florence H. Williams ; designed & printed by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano Originally published in 1930. The cover is enamaled wood with…

Modular Drawings: Sol Lewitt, 1976

Catalogue of an exhibition held in the Salle Simon I. Patino, Centre d’Art Contomporain, Genève, 1976. Link to Library Catalog

Young Masters and Misses by Telfer Stokes

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Warm-ups by Allan Kaprow

Warm-ups was carried out by a small group of trios, using their own apartments, in and around Boston, in October of 1975. Warm-ups was sponsored by the Center…

Walls paper by Gordon Matta-Clark

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Visionaire. 55, Surprise

Books with pop-up illustrations and movable tabs designed by various artists. Title and author information from book covers. Housed in box 29 x 23 x 16 cm. Limited…

Various Small Fires and Milk by Edward Ruscha

400 copies printed. Link to Library Catalog

Unfolding Poems by Michele Wong Albanese

A collaboration between one poet and eight artists. Each book contained in the box presents a different poem as interpreted by the artist. Limited ed. of 27 copies….

Twentysix Gasoline Stations by Edward Ruscha

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This Is Just to Say by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano

Encased in a box ; cover of book is padded vinyl. “I took a letterpress class because I was attracted to the beauty of the print; type slightly…

Standards: A work of art commissioned by the Department of Art for the Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, January 16 – February 18, 1979 by Allan Kaprow.

Catalog of an exhibition designed by Allan Kaprow. Link to Library Catalog

Stairs by Rein Jansma

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Secrets: Variable Piece 4 by Douglas Huebler

Transcription of written responses to the artist’s request for “personal secrets” from “visitors at the exhibition SOFTWARE (Jewish Museum, NYC, September 16-November 8, 1970).” –p. 4 of cover….

Routine by Allan Kaprow

The idea was prepared in November 1973 and was realized the following December 1, 2, and 3, under the sponsorship of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts…

Records by Edward Ruscha

Photos by Jerry McMillan. Link to Library Catalog

Real Estate Opportunities by Edward Ruscha

Imprint from label mounted inside back cover. Link to Library Catalog

Rates of Exchange by Allan Kaprow; in association with Anna Canepa

A formal arrangement of verbal, kinetic, and durational moves carried out by a small number of couples in New York City, March 22nd and 23rd, 1975, under the…

Rape Is by Suzanne Lacy

Cover title: Rape. Author’s name from colophon. Link to Library Catalog

Neither Slave Nor Saint by Yvonne Booth

Each page has a translucent envelope pocket (6.5 cm. high x 7.5 cm. wide) sewn in the center, containing a 3.5 x 4 cm. removable digital image. Each…

My Mother’s Napkins by Anne Thompson

“Anne Thompson wrote, illustrated, hand-set, letterpress printed, & bound this book, finishing in 2004”–Colophon. Edition of 50. Brown cloth boards with Coptic sewn binding. Pages are paper napkins,…

Make Art: It’s good for you, it’s good for America by Leavenworth Jackson

Cover title: This is a book. Link to Library Catalog

Libro Illeggibile N.Y. 1 by Bruno Munari

Title from spine of jacket cover. “This is a unique book designed by Bruno Munari especially for the Museum of Modern Art. It is one of a group…

Laair by Bruce Nauman

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8: Ideas, Images by Garth W. Caylor, Jr.

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How To Touch What by Eve Sonneman and Lawrence Weiner

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Everything I Hold Dear by Laurel McMechan

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Headdress by Ann Kalmbach & Tana Kellner

Printed on one side of the sheet (actually a strip of 13 connected sheets), which is folded accordian-style and is attached to cover. Link to Library Catalog

And/Or : Green as well as blue as well as red by Lawrence Weiner

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Echo-logy by Allan Kaprow

Echo-logy was carried out by a small group of persons moving in the water of a stream in Far Hills, N. J. on the weekend of May 3rd…

Cutaway by Sarah Bryant

“Printed on mylar, Rives BFK, and Hahnemuhle Copperplate. The text, set in Century Schoolbook, was printed from polymer plates.”–colophon. The top portion of each page has an image,…

Colored People by Edward Ruscha

Imprint from label mounted on t.p. Link to Library Catalog

Beijing 10/2003 by Ai Weiwei

Documentation of a 2400 kilometer journey by the artist through every street in Beijing. Captured at precisely-timed, five-minute intervals from a single channel video over 150 hours long,…

Arcs and Lines by Sol LeWitt

All combinations of arcs from four corners, arcs from four sides, straight lines, not-straight lines, and broken lines. Link to Library Catalog

Andy Warhol’s Index (Book) by Andy Warhol

(A Black star book) Link to Library Catalog

Point of View by Sarah Bryant

“… the back sides of the gate folds … presented a challenge. Somehow, this space needed to introduce each spread and use a system which unified the book…….

So On and So On by Emily Martin

“A do-si-do coptic bound book of images presenting a narrative in two opposing orders.”–Accompaning artist statement. Link to Library Catalog

Revolver by Robert Rauchenberg

Silk-screened plexiglass disks. Link to Library Catalog