Tag: 2020
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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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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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Tools for Extinction
Tools for Extinction is an anthology made of, for, against, within and in spite of this pandemic.
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ERRATA
ERRATANuno Moreira and David Soares2020 5.5 × 8 in.52 pagesBinding: Link-stitch with exposed spineLaser inside and foil stamped slipcase.Edition of 50 ERRATA is a cinematic, existentialist essay that explores mysticism and metaphysics through the metaphor of the book. Grainy, high-contrast images chronicle a cryptic encounter on the book’s rectos. The versos present a text, in…
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Tiny Dino’s Grand Field Museum Adventure
Tiny Dino’s Grand Field Museum Adventure” is an improvisational critique of the museum as an institution, told as a children’s book featuring toy dinosaurs.
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