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1. Spin off

Description: Manipulated black and white photographs and text throughout book; Silver covers

2. Beauty's only screen deep

Beauty's only screen deep

Description: John Fekner's photographs explore NYC graffiti comenting on society's video/television watching indiference to the poverty and toxicity around us and the threat of nuclear war. The photo essay culminates in several photographs of a project in which Fekner collaborated with a graffiti artist to paint a mural inviting people into a bomb shelter in a building that had been bricked up completely. Two short essays at the beginning and end of the book are included.

3. Medicine wheel

Description: The front cover of book features an image of a work by Drury titled Medicine Wheel. Text within the book documents the creation of Medicine Wheel by making paper from plants available during each month of the year, and collecting other natural materials for the project. Drury's project occured between August 16th, 1982 and August 15th, 1983.

4. Decide who you are: texts

Decide who you are: texts

Description: Bound on the right with overlapping cover which folds to the left; Each text has a leaf number and date; Collection of texts

5. My art book

Description: Handwriting on left hand side of pages, images on right; Divided into sections

6. Miropol

Description: Nineteen ink and brush drawings followed by a poem simply bound in black paper covers with a stapled binding.

7. Tropos

Description: Rhomboid-shaped book with spine constructed from a wooden dowel; Single hole drilled through all but the cover pages; Brightly colored images combined with text

8. Emergency instructions

Emergency instructions

Description: Three volumes; Vols. attached together with paper strip bearing title; I. How to swallow the lump in your throat -- II. How to shore your shaking knees -- III. How to give the gift of your back-brain (and maybe escape away); Text only, no images

9. Asperity

Description: Entire book made of and printed on sandpaper

10. Shock treatment

Shock treatment

Description: Shock treatment contains the monologues from Karen Finley's best known performance art pieces, as well as essays, poems and her illustrations.