Author: Levi Sherman
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Convalescence
ConvalescenceGrant EvansAdversary Editions2020 6 × 9 in. closed110 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital offset Convalescence is the first book by musician and visual artist, Grant Evans. It is far from the only artists’ book about grief, yet it stands out as particularly dark and gritty. Not only because it grapples with addiction and murder, but because Evans metaphorizes…
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This Land is My Land
This Land is My LandThad Higa2021 5.5 × 8.5 in. closed100 pages and two multi-page foldoutsCoptic binding with uncovered boardsDigital printing Thad Higa describes This Land is My Land as “a fictional narrative from the imagined headspace of current day white supremacists.” Artists rarely approach such a project with the required radical empathy, attempting to…
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Copy, Tweak, Paste: Methods of Appropriation in Re-enacted Artists’ Books
Copy, Tweak, Paste: Methods of Appropriation in Re-enacted Artists’ BooksRob van Leijsen2020 Éditions clinamen5.5 × 7.875 in. closed223 pagesPerfect-bound paperbackOffset printing Plenty of artists’ book practitioners and scholars have a background in graphic design, but for Rob van Leijsen graphic design is not merely an entry point into artists’ books; it is a place to…
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Inscription, Issue 1: Beginnings
Inscription, Issue 1: BeginningsEdited by Gill Partington, Adam Smyth, Simon MorrisInformation as Material2020 Inscription journal: 12 × 12 in. offset-printed perfect-bound codex, 134 pagesSean Ashton, Living In A Land: 12 in. vinyl LPCraig Dworkin, Clock: 6.625 × 6.625 in. offset-printed, saddle-stitched pamphlet in a slipcase, 12 pagesJérémie Bennequin, An Erasure into the Maelström: 36 ×…
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Fragmented Memory
Fragmented MemoryMajka Dokudowicz and Ioannis Anastasiou2019 5 × 6 × 0.5 in. closed48 pagesBinding: long stitchIncludes 11 unbound 2.25 × 2.875 in. prints on paper and one unbound 4 × 4.875 in. print on foilScreen printing and hot foil printingOpen edition of 55 copies Majka Dokudowicz makes work about fragments. Ioannis Anastasiou makes work about…
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Visible Climate
Visible Climate: Postcards from America’s Changing LandscapesLee Lines and Rachel Simmons2020 10 × 8 in. closed22 pagesBinding: Drum leaf with hard coversHP IndigoOpen edition Postcards are a peculiar medium, evoking presence and absence simultaneously. The writer of a postcard says, “I am here” to someone who isn’t. Or they say, “I was there” to a…
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Eulalia #3
Eulalia #3Hope AmicoGutwrench Press2020 4.25 × 5 in. closed32 pagesBinding: Dos-à-dos sewn with a 3-hole pamphlet stitchLetterpress cover and laser insides Eulalia #3 is the third in a series of zines which center on the generative constraint of Amico’s practice – the content for each themed issue is completed in a single sitting. In reality,…
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Tools for Extinction
Tools for Extinction is an anthology made of, for, against, within and in spite of this pandemic.
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Students
Tia Blassingame’s history of an integrated school offers a corrective to the way historical narratives about anti-Black violence are often presented.
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One Hundred Excellent Flowers
Calling on the aesthetics and politics of the 1960s, One Hundred Excellent Flowers questions the possibility of freedom in the absence of truth.
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