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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.
Exposure
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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Eight slices of comfort food containing family stories, bits of advice and recipes. 8 wedge shaped books. Trimmed with wavy scissors. Typefaces: Century Gothic and Copperplate Gothic Bold.
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Screenprinted mapfold book about Japanese internment camps in the United States, and heritage.
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Letterpress and linocut on paper folded into fortune cookie shapes inside a cardboard box. Text taken from and inspired by letters written between the artist and her father while she was in college and suffering from depression.
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Folded sheet consists of 15 leaves. tunnel book structure. Includes quotes on freedom with images of patriotic stamps. Attached to slip cover resembling the American flag. Edition limited to 20 copies. Savannah College of Art and Design owns edition number 18/20. Signed by the author/book artist.
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Freedom, a Fable is an illustrated artist's book with text and pop-up silhouettes. At first glance it appears to be a nineteenth-century children's book, but it is decidedly not. It tells the story of a female slave whose life after emancipation veers far from her dreams of meritocracy, revealing that Freedom, a Fable is not just the title of the work but is also the lesson to be learned.- the National Gallery of Art
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Mixed media with hard covers.
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Tunnel book structure. Luz Marina Ruiz: "This piece refers to tranquility and protection. The house forms in my work represent stability and protection from the outside world and in this context, the birds refer to bluebirds of happiness."
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Full Circle — like so many of Julie Chen's bookworks — offers the sensation of being caught up in something at once momentous and personal. Another elegantly clothed, unmistakable Chenbox opens to reveal a marvel of execution and effect. Once again, Julie Chen takes physicality, an essential part of all books, and makes it a vital element of expression. From Vamp and Tramp Booksellers Inc.
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Mixed media: German found paper including maps and parts of a telephone book.
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Features collage and string with buttons.
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Reproductions of approximately 100 prints of Matisse cutouts.
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Commenting on the dystopic condition of contemporary life. This book is conceived within that larger frame, but with a strong sense of the humor invoked by the "Ho" of her title.
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This elegantly simple book marries structure and content in the best tradition of artists' books. It begins: "What is a book? A book is an experience." And ends: "A book starts with an idea. And ends with a reader." Brown flap enclosure that contains a color printed, fold-out booklet with shaped pages that contain images and text. Written, designed and produced by Julie Chen and Clifton Meador.
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An interactive pop-up book with written satire of the artist community and how art is discussed.
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A sculptural book work. Ed. of 108 copies. Savannah College of Art and Design owns edition number 77/108. Signed by the autho/book artist. This is a three dimensional, semi-circular book with pie shaped pages that has text printed on the exploded fore edge. The inside pages contain pop-ups relating to the artist's travels in Paris.
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Andrea Dezsö creates hand cut and hand painted tunnel books. Inside the Heart was included in Slash, Paper Under The Knife at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City, and in the book Masters: Book Arts: Major Works by Leading Artists. Inside the Heart creates a visual space and invites the viewer to supply a narrative.
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Robbin Ami Silverberg: "Postcards have been found that were written by deported Hungarian Jews to their relatives from Auschwitz, dictated by SS officers. Rules for responding correspondence can be found on the front: “Answer only on a postcard, (maximum 30 words), in German via the Hungarian Jewish Association. 12 Sip Street, Budapest, VII.” The starting point for “Just 30 words” was an attempt to do the impossible: to read between the lines of an actual postcard sent by a woman to her husband in 1944. “Just 30 Words” sets up several scenarios that are each limited by the same dictate attached to those very postcards – any communiqué must be maximum 30 words. This is part of a continued exploration of language cognition: what words can actually communicate and their limitations. Each time, reading between the lines offers more than what can actually be read."
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Colophon: "There pictures were taken at the Dege Parkhang, a printing temple located in Ganze Autonomous Prefecture in western China, in August of 2006, with support from a Faculty Development Grant from Columbia College Chicago. This book is part of a larger project about the Parkhang developed by Patrick Dowdey....The figures are line drawings from the photographs, now converted into a font, so the pilgrims have literally turned into language, at least in this book."
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Artist's book by SCAD student Sarabeth Noggle and first place winner in the 3rd Annual Student Artist's Book Competition.
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Three sections containing Möbius strips. Cloth-covered box with Moriki and Canford Papers. Paper title label tipped on. Signed and numbered by the artist. Jana Sim: "The most difficult part of learning another language is everyday conversation where an immediate response is needed. Language Möbius is about my conversation process. The loop in my brain goes like this: hearing English, thinking in Korean, translating, then speaking in English. There are two layers to the Möbius strip – it can be cut in half. With the first cut, the ring becomes twice as long. The next cut makes the two rings link together. With each cut the sentences of the layers are also cut in half, making it illegible. The final two rings lined together symbolize the two languages tangled up in the artist's head while in translation, which is why the sentences can’t be read."
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"The book(from a project called:notes&lists) has the title :Liste: elf Zen Sätze. (list: eleven Zen sentences) The 11 Sentences are written with typewriter, collected from my notebooks.I am more a follower of the Chinese CHAN,than of Japanese Zen. Red Pine(=Bill Porter) has translated them into English. The double page in the middle of the book is a poem by myself, composed out of the sentences and my own words." From Artist's Correspondence, edited by M. Murphy 6-20-2011.
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"The book features a series of interconnected found prose in its beginning portions, then a photographic journey, then a reprint of the first several pages of the first section. [E. Rettberg]" www.artistsbooksonline.org
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Offset lithography with spiral binding "Comforting images from the '50's and '60's are super-magnified to reveal a strange universe of dots and patterns. Verbal cliches are juxtaposed in an unsettling manner. A life and marriage are not what they appear to be... with matte laminated printed wrap-around cover and special varilour plastic flyleaf..." -- PABA website.
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