Tag: book review

• 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.

  Levi Sherman

  July 6, 2020

  Review

  artists’ book, book art, book review, Clifton Meador, color separations, Essay, flowers, half-tone, junk food, Offset Lithography, Photography, pop art, Screw Post, Softcover, Text

• 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…

  Levi Sherman

  June 7, 2020

  Review

  2020, art writing, artists’ book, black and white, book art, book review, Collaboration, David Soares, ERRATA, Exposed Spine, Fiction, Hardcover, language, Link Stitch, Monograph, mysticism, Nuno Moreira, Photography, Portuguese, Slipcase, Text, text and image

• 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.

  Levi Sherman

  May 13, 2020

  Review

  2019, art writing, artists’ book, Asemic, asemic poetry, asemic writing, black and white, book art, book review, Collage, Drawing, Marilyn R. Rosenberg, Monograph, Perfect / Double-Fan Adhesive, Post-Asemic Press, Softcover, Visual

• Voragem

  

  VoragemIsabel Baraona and Catarina Domingues2016 7.625 × 10.25 in.32 pagesBinding: Dos-a-dos; saddle-stitched pamphlets tied into the cover, with an unbound pamphlet insertedDigital and offset printingEdition of 100 As a medium, books are noteworthy for their finitude. This seems increasingly significant in an era of infinite internet and endlessly reconfigurable data. So it is perhaps surprising…

  Levi Sherman

  February 25, 2020

  Review

  2016, art, art and writing, art writing, artists’ book, Belly Band, book review, Catarina Domingues, Collaboration, Dos-à-dos, Drawing, Isabel Baraona, Monograph, Pamphlet, Poetry, Portuguese, primary colors, Saddle Stitch, Text, voragem

• Plant Out of Place

  

  Plant Out of PlaceSarah Nicholls2019Brain Washing From Phone Towers brainwashingfromphonetowers.com 4.75 × 8.75 in.12 pagesBinding: French fold accordion, stitched into a coverLetterpress and linocutEdition of 250 Despite its unusual format, Sarah Nicholls is emphatic that her work Plant Out of Place is a pamphlet. In fact, Plant Out of Place is one of a three-part…

  Levi Sherman

  August 15, 2019

  Review

  2019, artists’ book, book art, book review, Brain Washing From Phone Towers, Documentary, Folded, Letterpress, Pamphlet, Pamphlet Stitch, Periodical, Red Hook, Relief Print, Sarah Nicholls, Text, weeds

• the THERE, THERE quarterly (Volume One, Issue One)

  

  the THERE, THERE quarterly, Volume One, Issue OneTravis ShafferFeaturing Zora J. Murff, Cian Oba-Smith, and Terrance Purdy2019theretherenow.www.theretherenow.com 10 × 12.5 in.18 sheetsUnbound, gathered in a belly bandRisograph the THERE, THERE quarterly is a new photo publication from Travis Shaffer’s imprint, theretherenow. Volume One, Issue One establishes the format: work by three photographers is Risograph printed…

  Levi Sherman

  July 22, 2019

  Review

  2019, Anthology, artists’ book, Belly Band, book review, Cian Oba-Smith, Periodical, photobook, Photography, portfolio, Risograph, Terrance Purdy, theretherenow, Travis Shaffer, Unbound, Zora J. Murff

• Lost Houses of Lyndale

  

  Lost Houses of LyndaleMatt BergstromDesign by Mary Clare Butler2018Fata Morgana Presswww.fatamorganapress.com/ 8 × 5 in.40 pagesBinding: Single-section pamphletLetterpress cover and offset inside In Lost Houses of Lyndale, Matt Bergstrom presents a history of all the recently-demolished homes along a two-block stretch in the rapidly-gentrifying Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. After a brief introduction, the book proceeds with a…

  Levi Sherman

  June 7, 2019

  Review

  2018, architecture, art writing, artists’ book, book art, book review, Chicago, Documentary, Drawing, Fata Morgana Press, history, Letterpress, Logan Square, Mary Clare Butler, Matt Bergstrom, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Pamphlet Stitch, Text