Includes bibliographical references; Book contains gatefold pages, pop-up images, cutouts, and tabs which can be pulled to change the image on a particular page
An artist's book comprised of three prints by Celmins and text assembled from "descriptions of the stars from around the world" --Front cover flap. Center fold pullout of abstract starscape on vellum paper.
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.
14 p. "Deluxe edition is cased in a variation of the Japanese portfolio structure, with bone clasps"--Publisher's website. Haikus by Sara Pirkle Hughes, with artwork by her twin sister Amy Pirkle, telling the story of their grandmother, who left her home in Japan as a young mother to begin a new life in the 1950's American South. Design, printing, artwork, and handmade paper by Amy Pirkle
86 p A commercially printed book reproducing comic strips from Raw Magazine's first three issues. "Pages from the rare first 3 issues of the comics magazine for damned intellectuals"--Cover.
