Tag: 2019
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The Artist’s Novel
The Artist’s NovelDavid MarotoMousse Publishing2019 Part I: A New Medium8 × 6 in. closed284 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset Part II: The Fantasy of the Novel8 × 6 in. closed292 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset Spanish artist/theorist David Maroto’s two-volume work of fictocriticism, The Artist’s Novel, is not an artist’s book in the traditional sense (if we can say there is […]
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The Circus
The CircusTara HomasiPinsapo Press / Publication Studio2019 9 × 12.25 × 0.7 in.190 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Tara Homasi coaxed The Circus out of an existing book, The Circle of Life: Rituals from the Human Family Album. If Tom Phillips’ seminal redacted book, A Humument, is impressive because the original book is mediocre, obscure and visually […]
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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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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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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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False Fiction Fractured Fact Altered
False Fiction Fractured Fact Altered is a wonderful democratic access point to Marilyn R. Rosenberg’s asemic writing and collage practice.
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ISOLATIONS
ISOLATIONS is a process-oriented publication that reveals the labor of poetics and the poetics of labor.
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Attenti al Cane: Twentysix Dogs Found on Street View
“Attenti al Cane” thoughtfully appropriates imagery from Google Street View to examine how the internet mediates a long-distance relationship.
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Five Oceans in a Teaspoon
Five Oceans in a TeaspoonDennis J. Bernstein and Warren Lehrer2019 Paper Crown Press6.875 × 6.5 × 1 in.300 pagesSmyth-sewn hardcoverOffset inside with foil-stamped cloth spine and paper cover The 1984 book French Fries by Dennis Bernstein and Warren Lehrer is a landmark work of visual literature. In the years since, Bernstein’s poetry has continued to […]
Artists’ Book Reviews 