Search Results

Description: Tunnel book, featuring pictorial work, in center of three panels. On the left and right panels is printed the text of William Stafford's poem, "A Ritual to Read to Each Other" on black paper in gold ink. The outer portfolio structure of the book is board, bound in book cloth. A small portion of the print from the tunnel book on the interior illustrates the exterior of the book in an inset in the cover.

Description: 12 p. folded. Book consists of panels with black and white photographs interspersed with white text on green background accordion folded strips with highway grids on the reverse. Front and back cover are maps.

Description: 72 p. Commercially produced hardcover book, bound with grey book cloth, containing text and artists' stamps, inspired by postage stamps. Each artist contributed a perforated sheet of stamps, which are layered between two sheets of vellum paper. The image, without perforation, is reproduced on the following page.

Description: 72 p. Commercially produced hardcover book, bound with grey book cloth, containing text and artists' stamps, inspired by postage stamps. Each artist contributed a perforated sheet of stamps, which are layered between two sheets of vellum paper. The image, without perforation, is reproduced on the following page.

Description: An accordion book that features images of 14 keys found in the artist's home when she moved to Illinois in 1984. Title from slipcase. 4 pages. Printed on Epson Ultra Premium Presentation Paper Luster 10.4 mil thick using the K3 Ultrachrome 8-color ink system. Leather cover with embedded key. Slipcase with letterpress title"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers' website. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 91 mm "An actual key is embedded under the leather cover of the book"--Artist's website

Description: "If you believe in love, but find it difficult to explain-- this is for you"--P. [2] of jacket. A commercially printed reproduction of papercut text and illustrations. Hardback, bound in cloth with a paper dust jacket.

Description: Consists primarily of b&w linocuts of places with hand-carved linocut text identifying location on opposite pages; some linocuts interleaved with guardsheets; col. ill. on lining papers. Bound in brown cloth with black letterpress landscape image on the front board, spine and some of the back. Similar design used to create a blind embossed area on the back cover. End sheets have a river map and title 'Many waters'. Seven blank pages provided for notes. The colophon page is a linocut of a cemetary with headstones.

Description: "Linda Welch's Concealed Within books are a series of unique, un-openable book objects bound with wax and cord made from mixed media. Each book is housed in a matching slipcase. Book and box contain a matching number, word or code signifying the title of each work"--23 Sandy Gallery website. "Medium/materials, painting, screen printing, collage, wax"--23 Sandy Gallery website. Issued in collage-decorated case.

Description: Handprinted block prints on library checkout cards, gouache, mulberry paper, brads, type. Bound in found vintage cover. Each book in the edition varies with the discarded library cards used. Slipcased in a manila folder. Orange overdue book card in pocket, numbered and initialed by the artist. Jacket is from a copy of: The world of the viruses / Stewart M. Brooks. Arist Statement: Drawings of people reading made during my daily commute are translated into block prints and hand-printed onto discarded and collected checkout cards. The commuters engaged in their own private world intersect with book titles and signatures of past readers. The office materials used to construct each book imply tasks workers are bound for. The nostalgia of the old cards suggest a history of the changing methods of reading.

Description: Gouache on found library checkout cards, linen thread, linen tape, found book covers. For years I have been collecting objects and images for The Female Icon Collection; popular figurines, book illustrations, product characters, archetypes of Woman, and real women in history ... The Shower Party Book ... [is] illustrated from this collection. It's about a journey that is a search for identity, trying on different female roles from media icons to protagonists identified with. We are constantly reinventing ourselves to find our place in the world"--Artist's statement.

Search