Category: Review
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Jericho’s Daughter
Jericho’s DaughterWarren Lehrer and Sharon HorvathEarSay2024 6.75 × 9 in. closed50 pagesSoftcover dos-á-dos with wraparound cover and string and button enclosureHP Indigo Jericho’s Daughter reimagines the biblical story of Jericho, this time told from the perspective of Rahab, the Canaanite prostitute who is spared by Joshua when the Israelites raze Jericho and who, having converted…
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Prisoners’ Inventions
Prisoners’ InventionsAngeloTemporary Services (Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer)Edited by Mairead Case and designed by Partner & PartnersHalf Letter Press2020 8.5 × 5.5 in. closed200 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Prisoners’ Inventions is what the title suggests: a compendium of devices designed, built, and used by people incarcerated in US prisons. First published in 2003 with WhiteWalls, this…
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Pictures From the Outside: Interview with Chantal Zakari
Pictures From the OutsideChantal ZakariEighteen Publications2023 136 pages5.875 × 8.25 in. closedOffset printingEdition of 500 For Pictures From the Outside, Chantal Zakari asked her incarcerated adult students if there was a significant place they would like to see photographed, and then attempted to make the photographs they requested. The premise seems simple, but the vicissitudes…
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O meu coração bate sem mim
O meu coração bate sem mimAlexandra AgostinhoDesign by Rita Oliveira and production by Isabel Baraona2019 23.25 × 6 in. openSingle sheet (6 accordion-folded pages)4.3125 × 6.25 in. bi-fold paper enclosure with ribbon tieDigital offset printing Alexandra Agostinho’s O meu coração bate sem mim is an instance of genderqueer expression that makes gender both a performance…
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本の本の本
Antoine Lefebvre本の本の本 2021Antoine Lefebvre Editions 21 × 10.5 in. open48 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset printing “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” Sol LeWitt, “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” Art Forum, 1967. 本の本の本 is a conceptual photographic artists’ book stemming from Antoine Lefebvre’s travels to Japan. Each duplex-printed page in the perfect-bound paperback has nine square photographs of…
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Controlled Burn
Top-down view of Controlled Burn’s enclosure, which mimics a matchbox. Title text is an illustrated logotype with a burning match replacing the ‘u’ in ‘burn’. The background is red with flame motif.
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One Star
Zak JensenOne Star2023 4 × 6 in. closed124 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Zak Jensen’s self-published book One Star collects one-star customer reviews of seasonal affective disorder lamps interspersed with stock photographs of the Sun. A bookmark accompanies the book; on one side: the title, edition size, artist’s name, and date of publication; on the other: a…
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Music of the Uncanny Soundscapes
Neil MajeskiMusic of the Uncanny SoundscapesFrom the series: The Last State or the Penultimate2020 4.5 × 7 in. closed20 pagesSaddle-stitched, softcover pamphletInkjet and laser [In a departure from the usual Artists’ Book Reviews format, this mini review is part of a series on Neil Majeski’s pamphlet series, The Last State or the Penultimate. The first of these mini reviews covered Majeski’s…
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Curious Details in Postcards
Neil MajeskiCurious Details in PostcardsFrom the series: The Last State or the Penultimate2021 4.5 × 7 in. closed24 pagesSaddle-stitched, softcover pamphletInkjet and laser [In a departure from the usual Artists’ Book Reviews format, this mini review is part of a series on Neil Majeski’s pamphlet series, The Last State or the Penultimate. The first of these mini reviews covered Majeski’s series…
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The Perverse Doilies
Neil MajeskiThe Perverse DoiliesFrom the series: The Last State or the Penultimate2019 4.5 × 7 in. closed20 pagesSaddle-stitched, softcover pamphletInkjet and laser [In a departure from the usual Artists’ Book Reviews format, this mini review is part of a series on Neil Majeski’s pamphlet series, The Last State or the Penultimate. The first of these mini reviews covered Majeski’s series as…
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