Text and images alternate on each of three flags per page. Each recto page of three flags has a very short original story about women or a woman and cars on the first and third flag with an image in the middle. The verso side of the page is in reverse, with images on the first and third and a quote about women and cars in the middle. When the book is fully opend an image of a woman leaning against a very early automobile apears. The image, likely taken from a photograph is in high contrast, without real half-tones, and is printed in beige on cream colored paper. The accordion of the binding is pink. The covers are hard, covered with cream colored paper., "Written after a decade of living in the car capital of the world, Women and Cars provides a new perspective on an old topic. Autobiographical narrative with photographic images."-- Susan Elizabeth King From the Women's Studio Workshop Artists' Books Archive http://www.wsworkshop.org/php/details.php?ID=54
Collection of excerpts from narratives written by women imprisoned for madness;"Cover title";" Printed in an edition of 100 using silkscreen and letterpress printing. The book was created ... at Women's Studio Workshop --Colophon";"Numbered and signed by the artist. Issued in a black cloth tri-fold portfolio, in patterned black cloth slipcase. The hinged pages unfold in four directions to reveal a myriad of shapes and patterns resembling a large crazy quilt";"U of O Rare Books' copy is number 29, signed by the artist, and is accompanied by the prospectus, which contains the Charlotte Perkins Gilman excerpt", Signed by the artist, and is accompanied by the prospectus, which contains the Charlotte Perkins Gilman excerpt
The word Ruderal derives from the latin rudus, meaning lump or rough place, and is used to refer to those plant species that first inhabit a disturbed or destroyed landscape. Mills book addresses the wide variety of plants that have returned to the paved and developed landscape of Manhattan to find their way up through the cracks. The text is in the form of rotating, visual acrostic poems which spell the word ruderal. Screen printed in nine colors. Alternating page spreads show the poetry, and images in duotone color of cityscapes with an alphabetical list of ruderal plants. This hand bound book has wooden covers, and endsheets made of abaca, ruderal burdock and ruderal dandelion., Initialed by the artist
The tetra tetra flexagon structure of this book creates what appears to be a two-dimensional object, which can be turned three times to reveal four distinct and non-repeating images. the Queen of Wands is a figure from the Tarot deck who represents a sypathetic figure, and is here connected to other women artists and printers, and most specifically to Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo. The wand used in this book also represents the pica or "speaking" stick, used to pass the right to speak in a group. Two cards are enclosed which bear publication information and instructions for operating., Library has two copies
Each note has a different image screenprinted on it; Each image is indexed along with a translation of any text within the image and some with a short explanation of the text or image; Banknotes enclosed in plastic page protectors; Each page is separated with a vellum divider which prevents more than one bill being seen clearly at any time, Signed by the artist