Category: Review
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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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Object Objects
Object ObjectsShana KaplowDesigned by Matthew RezacSelf-published with support from TITLE Collective2019 10.625 × 8.375 in. closed112 pagesSmyth-sewn softcover with French flapsOffset printing “I can’t unknow the impact of these massive systems,” interdisciplinary visual artist Shana Kaplow writes on the front flap of Object Objects, referring to the underpinnings of capital and exploitative labor that gird…
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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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Oriental Silk
Oriental SilkXiaowen ZhuDesign by Michael Mason, CHEVAL2020Hatje Cantz 7 × 9.5 in. closed196 pagesSmyth-sewn, clothbound hardcoverOffset inside with screenprinted cover Oriental Silk is a Los Angeles import and retail company, a film, and an ever-evolving installation project by self-described “visual poet and aesthetic researcher” Xiaowen Zhu. The book Oriental Silk is a bit of each…
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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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The Marathon Poet
The Marathon PoetÅke HodellTranslated by Fia BackströmEdited by Kira Josefsson2020 Ugly Duckling Presse5.25 × 8.25 in. closed150 pagesPerfect bindingOffset Åke Hodell (1919–2000) was many things: poet, pacifist, anarchist, visual artist, composer, razor-sharp satirist, and one-time fighter pilot. In The Marathon Poet (Maratonpoeten in the original Swedish), first published in 1981 and newly translated into English…
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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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couplets and questions
Review by Eric Morris-Pusey couplets and questionsAndrew ShawThe Silent Academy couplets20195 × 5 in. closed78 pagesSoft-cover perfect bindingHP Indigo questions5 × 5 in. closed202058 pagesSoft-cover perfect bindingHP Indigo “Imagination,” author John Higgs begins his foreword to Andrew Shaw’s couplets, “isn’t what it used to be.” The statement was true enough when he first put it…
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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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