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1. Twelve picturesque passions : depictions & stories of the deaths & lives of selected saints
Twelve picturesque passions : depictions & stories of the deaths & lives of selected saints
Description
Hardbound accordion fold book containing reproductions of paintings held a collection in Switzerland of 12 Saints with descriptions on the reverse.
2. Rondo
Rondo
Description
Clothbound book opens to reveal accordion-fold pages which have been printed on both sides and are unattached at one end
3. Untitled artist's book
Untitled artist's book
Description
Four triangular pages bound with yellow string to form one large fold-out triangle; Black and white photographs with paint and glitter, Signed by the artist/name handwritten on back cover; Submitted to fulfill requirement of University of Oregon, Fine and Applied Arts Dept., Artists' Books course 1989
4. Women and cars
Women and cars
Description
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
5. The Adventures of comic boy
The Adventures of comic boy
Description
Black and white comic books with smaller section of color images in center of book, Signed by the artist
6. X ing over
X ing over
Description
Title from accompanying leaf; Cover title: Left handed book; Book is contained within a blue portfolio with a band closure, Accompanying leaf numbered and signed by the artist; Submitted to fulfill requirement of University of Oregon, Fine and Applied Arts Dept., Artists' Books course, 1989
7. Coming around: another axis cycle
Coming around: another axis cycle
Description
Each page is folded; Pages are held together with brass brad; Pages numbered but numbers are located in different place on each page, Signed by the artist; Submitted to fulfill requirement of University of Oregon, Fine and Applied Arts Dept., Artists' Books course, 1988
8. It's them tiny packs of sugar which our government perverted their people with
It's them tiny packs of sugar which our government perverted their people with
Description
Includes packet of Sweet 'N Low which appears to have been adhered to the inside of the back cover but has come off. The cover is made of a single piece of folded tagboard, and the accordion folded pages are made of single sheet of paper printed in black and neon pink., Spine of book signed by artist; Submitted to fulfill requirement of University of Oregon, Fine and Applied Arts Dept., Artists' Books course, 1988.
9. Abused and scolded, blamed for every disaster when the going got tough, (women) have nevertheless come up smiling, lipstick in hand
Abused and scolded, blamed for every disaster when the going got tough, (women) have nevertheless come up smiling, lipstick in hand
Description
This flag book is made up of three levels of flags attached to a shallow accordion. The beginning of the accordion is attached to the front of the wrap around cover, but the end of the accordion is unattached and must be pulled out by hand. The top and bottom flags consist of images of women in an art nouveau style and Native American motifs, while middle flags contain text concerning women's roles in society., Signed by the artist; Submitted to fulfill requirement of University of Oregon, Fine and Applied Arts Dept., Artists' Books course, 1988?
10. Interior decoration
Interior decoration
Description
Accordion fold book printed with appropriated images in green and black on beige papers. Printed paper is also on the covers, and the envelope that the book comes in. There is also some yellow paper, printed in with the same images collaged on pages., Signed by the artist
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