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ACA Library Artist's Book Collection
The SCAD Library in Atlanta includes a permier collection of over 2,100 artists' books. Artists' books are works of art that experiment with the potential of the book. The genre includes immense diversity in shape, medium, and content. SCAD's collection contains unique works by individual artists as well as small editions and items from fine arts presses. The collection is unusual in its variety; it includes works from more than 1,000 artists and has a deep holding of books ranging from the 1960s through contemporary works. An especially unique aspect of SCAD's collection is the group of Nexus Press books, which is the largest of its kind. Nexus Press was a fine arts press in Atlanta that was in production from 1973-2003.
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The value of the SCAD collection was recognized early in 2008 by the receipt of a grant from The Halle Foundation. This grant funded a student exchange with a prominent fine arts university, Braunschweig University of the Arts, in Germany and an exhibition of the collection.
The library hosts an annual Artist's Book Symposium which includes lectures, presentations, and workshops related to the study of book arts. In conjunction with the symposium, the library holds an annual Student Artist's Book Competition. Participating students have the opportunity to win one of three purchase prizes and be entered into the permanent collection.
SCAD's philosophy has always been that the Artist's Book collection is a teaching collection. The library offers subject specific classes each quarter to a wide variety of majors. Students, faculty, and the public can make appointments to visit the collection, handle the items, and in doing so gain inspiration for their own creative projects.
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From the Publisher: "Auerbach has created an oversized pop-up book featuring six die-cut paper sculptures that unfold into wonderfully elaborate forms. While much of Auerbach’s work has previously dealt with compositions staged in the flux state between 2D and 3D, [2,3] represents an expansion for the artist towards a more sculptural medium. Engineered by the artist, each “page” opens into a beautifully constructed object, intricately conceived so that the large-scale paper works—some up to 18” tall—collapse totally flat when closed."
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Lessons about the difficulty of adult relationships rendered visually and typographically. Edition of 30.
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Letterpress and laser print on a long double-sheet accordion fold. The book is issued in a clamshell case and comes with an annotated bibliography and a legend.
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Triangular shaped, accordion fold book. The word "art" changes typographically and is accompanied by different prepositions on each page. Miniature edition of 100, book number 48. Signed "K.J. Miller 8/2000".
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"In memory, September 11th 2001"--Colophon. Each leaf of heavy paper stock has cut-out footprint of the World Trade Center. The first leaves consist of a single pinhole die-cut representing the attenna; the following one hundred and twenty leaves with two identical square die-cuts represent each floor of the towers, and the final leaf is a die-cut footprint of the financial district street grid surrounding the twin towers.
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Julie Leonard's alphabet is a celebration of language. For each letter of the alphabet she has chosen a word that refers to words, books, or reading.
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Includes An interview with Andy at the balloon farm -- Ingrid Superstar on the factory -- Reprinted from the Fire Island news -- Notes on Myepic.
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A letterpress printed accordion book with text on one side and a continuous image on the other side, addressing the pluses and minuses of “getting away from it all”. Attached hard covers. Edition of 100. from artist's website
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Amandine Nabarra-Piomelli: "I used to think I was a photographer, but I realize now that I am an image-maker. I construct tales of impossible love or of dreams that go beyond what can be expressed in a single image. The photographs become short stories, and they dictate their own form of presentation including installations, artist books, or sequences. They are not told necessarily in linear fashion, which vastly increases the number of possible interpretations. I experiment with layering several different images and with a variety of narrative mechanisms. This way, the visual flow of the sequence is altered and normal reading habits are disrupted which allows viewers to blend their thoughts with the images. ...
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Spiral bound offset lithography with die cut windows. Three characters pass one another in this work without text, seemingly silently, die cutting is used to glimpse into the future or past events, or pages, in the book.
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Letterpress, case binding. Uses the story of Billy the Rabbit to examine lynching in the during the early 20th century in the North American South.
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Sarah Bryant: "The book is an exploration of the chemical elements in the human body and the roles they play elsewhere in the world. Each spread is a diagram describing the elements as they exist on the periodic table, the earth's crust, a variety of man-made weapons, medicines and tools, sea water, etc. Each element is identified as a specific colored rectangle and these rectangles continue through the diagrams. These diagrams sometimes are difficult to decode, and toward the end are interrupted by blind stamped organic shapes and pressure printing."
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Letterpress and ink on handmade paper and cloth covered board.
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Pigment inkjet prints on polyester film, double sided variation on flag book. Illustration in collaboration with Henry Maron. Edition of 25 Inspired by Willa Cather's My Antonia, and quote from the text printed on one end panel: “Everywhere, as far as the eye could reach, there was nothing but rough, shaggy, red grass… And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.” www.karenhanmer.com
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Title from label. One plastic pill container. Pink, green and purple pills labeled "stimulant," "depressant," and "aphrodisiac." A label with the definition of book is attached to the container.
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Double sided accordion, 11 panels. Offset lithography in full color with die-cut flags. Image pages created from original drawings that combine gouache, powdered graphite and letterpress printing. Produced at the Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Land Marks Press: "Imagine a conversation between two extraordinary women, separated by a thousand years, yet connected by acts of bravery and more than coincidental commonalities. Imagine that this dialogue transcends time, and links Queen Esther, from the Jewish story of Purim, and Scheherazade, the Muslim woman who told stories for a thousand and one nights. This is the inspiration for Lynne Avadenka's new artist's book." "The book structure reinforces the never-ending, always mutable nature of storytelling, and the narrative is printed on tabbed pages that weave their way through the evocative imagery printed on the accompanying page spreads." From Vendor, Vamp and Tramp Booksellers
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Laser cut tunnel book by SCAD Fibers student Audrey Wagner. The book simulates a microscopic view of a scorpion shell.
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Poem describing clouds as "changeling monsters" and secretly carnivorous. Author statement and imprint from order record. RPB Printed on both sides of a three-layer accordion folded sheet (600 x 60 mm.), that opens in carousel format. First and last leaves mounted on boards covered with beige decorated paper. The carousel accordion sheet, illustrated in colors, depicts a landscape background with pop-up clouds. A thin strip of white paper, hand lettered with poetic text, is in the foreground. Pop-up clouds and strip attached to sheet folds with yellow string. Mounted on the back side of sheet are paper cut-outs of cartoon "balloons" containing humorous quotes, printed on a Gocco printer and illustrated with Pigma pens and watercolors. Title hand lettered in violet on front cover; white cord on cover ties and secures front and back boards. On colophon: The paper is Crossepoint synergy from Sally Lowe. Text is hand lettered, hand cut and assembled. Savannah College of Art and Design owns edition number 4/25. Signed by the author/books artist.
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Three hole pamphlet bound with string and with some accordion foldout pages.
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"... A variant series of hand-embroidered canvas books, copying the form and design of dime-store "composition" books. The books themselves, self-consciously hand-made objects, are a record of coincidental occurrences generally gleaned from reading or mundane events."--BAA description.
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Inspired by Euclid’s geometric postulate, “Any two points can be joined by a straight line,” Connect the Dots explores, through words and images, the difficulties of applying scientific theory to an elusive relationship.
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Laser print and letterpress on paper with book screws.
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Laser print and letterpress on paper with hard covers and book screws.
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This limited-edition print project, Divide & Conquer, was designed by Maureen Cummins with typographic assistance by Kathleen McMillan. Production was funded by the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College, with additional support from the Friends of Skillman Library. All editioning was completed on site at EPI by Jase Clark. To produce the printed pieces, multiple layers of text and imagery were hand silkscreened onto sheets of Arches Cover, then hand-colored. The images used for the prints are period photographs and engravings collected by the artist. Many of the portraits are reproduced here by kind permission of the New York Historical Society & the Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture. The portfolios that house the prints were produced by Portfolio Box of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Vamp and Tramp Booksellers
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