Documentation of diagnosis, hospitalization and death of the artist's girlfriend from leukemia. The story is told through personal notes, the reports of nurses, doctors, various medical forms, lists of questions for the doctors and photographs. Rather than seeming clinical, these very real artifacts of the final struggle of this young woman are heartwrenching.
This book has paper covers encased in a metal spine with a grommet binding. Echaurren, an avant-garde comic artist pays tribute to futurist artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in comics and collage.
Amy Pirkle dedicated this book to her grandmother of whom she says: " As far back as I can remember, I knew that when I walked into my grandmother's kitchen in South Georgia, I'd find her in the kitchen with a hot batch of biscuits made from scratch." This short book reflects that warm childhood memory with paper the color of baked biscuits and simple duo- or tri-colored linocut images. Several fold out pages are included. Letter press printed in metal types on Nideggen mould made paper. Pamphlet bound with hard, split boards covered with lino-cut printed paper. Signed by the artist. This book was purchased with Kiyoko by Sara Pirkle Hughes from the Maternal Legends exhibit at 23 Sandy Gallery in Portland, OR (December 5, 2008-January 3, 2009) which was juried by Cara List, Art and Architecture Librarian, University of Oregon.
This square book with black covers and metalic printing on the cover contains a short story illustrated with dark angular images printed on black pages. The tornadoes (or are they nuclear warheads?) are depicted as sinister men who meet to determine the terms of their agreement, but only belatedly realize the destruction they've created.
Issued in a set of three books; Book 1 (Geography) is accompanied by 8 collectors' stamps in envelope. Book 2 (Geneology) has an envelope in the back and has hard covers to protect the computer disk for Swallows (electronic mythology for an audience of one -- a program on computer disk for use on Apple IIe of II+ computer) which is in the envelope along with 32 collectors' stamps in a separate envelope. Book 3 (The History of the H Tabernacle in Exile) is accompanied by 32 collectors' stamps in an envelope; Black and white text and imagery except Bk 1 which has some color
Three signatues bound with exposed long stitch in dark gray paper covers over black ribons. This untitled work contains no text. Images are in black and white and half tones that appear to have been produced with an early computer drawing program. Some half-tones are rendered in what look like Ben-day dots, others with more elaborate patterns., Signed by the artist; Submitted to fulfill requirement of University of Oregon, Fine and Applied Arts Dept., Artists' Books course, 1988
This book by Jim Dine is a photographic essay or a book of poetry, made up of years worth of photos Dine shot of his hand-written poems on blackboards, windows, walls and other surfaces. Photographs are in both black and white and color. Published in orange cloth hard covers., Library's copy no longer has slipcase with it
Gessert began hybridizing Pacific Coast irises in 1982, however, even composting the plants he didn't like, he had too many plants until he . . . realized the world is a garden. This book, subtitled Iris Dispersals contains 377 dated entries, documenting seed plantings and gifts of plants and seeds between 1985 and 1992. Brown paper covers. One packet of Gessert's Pacific Coast native Iris seeds inserted., Signed by the artist
Compositions of borrowed text face appropriated images in this series of compelling studies of nuclear war. Images are both black and white and color photographs, works of art, and diagrams. Notes in the back of the book attribute sources.