Tag: Hardcover

• This Land is My Land

  

  This Land is My LandThad Higa2021 5.5 × 8.5 in. closed100 pages and two multi-page foldoutsCoptic binding with uncovered boardsDigital printing Thad Higa describes This Land is My Land as “a fictional narrative from the imagined headspace of current day white supremacists.” Artists rarely approach such a project with the required radical empathy, attempting to…

  Levi Sherman

  June 8, 2021

  Review

  2021, Coptic, Exposed Spine, Hardcover, Laser / Toner, Monograph, Photography, Text, Thad Higa, This Land is My Land, typography

• 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…

  Eric Morris-Pusey

  March 20, 2021

  Review

  2020, Belly Band, Documentary, Hardcover, Hatje Cantz, Michael Mason, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Oriental Silk, Photography, Screen Print, Smyth Sewing, Text, Xiaowen Zhu

• 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…

  Levi Sherman

  November 16, 2020

  Review

  2020, climate change, Documentary, Drawing, Drum Leaf, Fiction, Hardcover, HP Indigo, Lee Lines, Monograph, national parks, Photography, postcards, Print on demand, Rachel Simmons, Visible Climate

• 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

• 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…

  Levi Sherman

  November 12, 2019

  Review

  2019, artists’ book, Case Binding, Collaboration, Dennis J. Bernstein, dyslexia, Foil Stamp, Hardcover, Memoir, Monograph, Offset Lithography, Poetry, Smyth Sewing, Text, text and image, typography, visual literature, visual poetry, Warren Lehrer