Tag: Essay
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how to build a ____.
how to build a ____.Madeleine Aguilar2023bench press Issues:1. Madeleine Aguilar2. Ray Madrigal3. Jane Ferry4. Bex Ya Yolk 24 pages7 × 8 in. closedSaddle stitchRisograph printingEditions of 250 Madeleine Aguilar calls how to build a ____. “a series of artists’ responses to organizing their creative practice in 20 steps.” I wouldn’t usually begin a review by…
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American Weather
American WeatherMary Margaret Alvarado and Corie J. Cole2024NewLights Press 64 pages9.25 × 7 in. closedLink-stitched softcover with detachable jacketRisograph inside and letterpress coverEdition of 200 American Weather is a collaboration between writer Mary Margaret Alvarado, artist Corie J. Cole, and publisher Aaron Cohick. Alvarado first published the titular essay in 2015, in the immediate aftermath…
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Melt
MeltPhilip Zimmermann2023Spaceheater Editions Smyth-sewn softcover with exposed spine; separate z-fold colophonHinged metal container with clear plastic window200 pages3.25 × 5.125 × 1 in. closedUV-cured inkjet printing with foil stamping on front cover and container labelEdition of 175 Melt is the second in what Douglas Adams might call Philip Zimmermann’s increasingly inaccurately named trilogy of books…
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Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings
Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate ReadingsJanelle Rebel2024The Everyday Press Perfect-bound softcover with French folds353 pages5.25 × 7.75 in. closedLetterpress cover, offset inside Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings is a bibliography of bibliographies. Not just any bibliographies, though — author Janelle Rebel is both an artist and a librarian, and the collected bibliographies reside at that same…
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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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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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Stock Pile
Stock PileAreca RoeDesign by Kelly MunsonForeword by Sheila Dickinson2021Self-published, printed by Edition One 8.5 × 11 in. closed90 pagesPerfect-bound softcover with French foldsLaser Stock photography is an uncanny reflection of reality. Its sanitization and anonymization of familiar settings function as a trick mirror, an almost-real representation that subtly but indelibly differs from what we encounter…
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Escape Book
Escape BookStefania Patrikiou2021 8.25 × 11.5 in. closed32 pagesPamphlet stitchScreen printEdition of 20 Completed in 2021, Escape Book is a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The colophon makes a statement to that effect, but the book is otherwise wordless, which allows Patrikiou to reflect on escapism more broadly. The screen-printed book combines photographic images…
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Ballroom Etiquette
Ballroom EtiquetteMaria Brito and Bruno NeivaDesigned with Lisa LorenzTeam Trident Press2020 4 × 5 in. closed48 pagesSaddle-stitched pamphletRisograph inside with thermography-finished coverEdition of 150 A collaboration between Maria Brito and Bruno Neiva, Ballroom Etiquette is a slim, pocket-sized pamphlet, but it distills two books — True Politeness: A Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies (1867) and…
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A Direction Out There: Readwalking (With) Thoreau
A Direction Out There: Readwalking (With) ThoreauEmmanuelle WaeckerléContributions by Vicky Smith and Michael HamptonMA Bibliothèque2021 4.125 × 6.75 in. closed92 pagesPerfect bound softcover with French flapsDigital printing Emmanuelle Waeckerlé is an interdisciplinary artist who works in sound, performance, and publishing. For over two decades, she has been elaborating the concept of readwalking — the simultaneous…
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