Tag: Monograph
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“Tear Gas Flash Bangs Fires” Consume Us and Will Consume this Book
“Tear Gas Flash Bangs Fires” Consume Us and Will Consume this BookPaul Valadez2026 286 pages9.5 × 13.75 in. closedUnbound altered bookInk lettering on cover with graphite and watercolor insideUnique (1 copy) Most of the books I review have been donated to Artists’ Book Reviews — an exchange of artistic and critical labor. If anything, it…
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Warten
WartenConstanze Kreiser2021 20 pages8.25 × 5.75 in. closedPamphlet stitchDigital printing with graphite and cut-out embellishmentsVaried edition of 20 copies Warten is a book about waiting for a book about waiting. Constanze Kreiser created Warten (“waiting” in German) while waiting for a copy of Maurice Blanchot’s Awaiting Oblivion to arrive at a local bookstore. Created in…
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Workshopping at WSW
Workshopping at WSWEmily Larned2025Alder & Frankia 22 pages4.375 × 11 in. closedSaddle stitch with gate foldsRisographEdition of 500 Workshopping at WSW is essentially a catalog of workshops held at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY — except the workshops are from 1983–1999, and some of them never ran. The staple-bound pamphlet is part of…
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The Streets Are Very Quiet
The Streets Are Very Quiet(You Look Like The Right Type, Book 2)Mark Addison Smith2022Printed at Fort Orange Press 448 pages9 × 6 × 2 in. closedSmyth-sewn, case-boundDigital printing inside with foil-stamped coverFirst edition of 150 The Streets Are Very Quiet belongs to a series of daily drawings titled You Look Like The Right Type, which…
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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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praying for joy
praying for joyIsabel Baraona2025 20 pagesSaddle-stitched pamphlet6 × 9.5 in. closedDigital printingEdition of 50 Praying for joy is a short pamphlet containing a single poem by Isabel Baraona. A single poem, but one created by remixing and redacting two earlier pieces. Praying for joy shares its title with a painting series from 2010 and deals…
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Interruption: A List of Words and Phrases
Interruption: A List of Words and PhrasesJulie Graves KrishnaswamiDesign by Megan Mangum2022the jenny-press Self-covering accordion with thread loop for hanging7.5 × 5.5 in. closedOffset printingEdition of 300 Interruption: A List of Words and Phrases is based on Julie Graves Krishnaswami’s 2021 Interruption Carbon Series. The original drawings, made through an elaborate process with stenciled vinyl…
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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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Two Blank Books
The Collected Poems of Donald J. TrumpBrad Freeman20245.75 × 6.5 in. closedSingle-signature clothbound hardcover40 pagesLaser printingEdition of 50 I Have Nothing to Say, and I am Saying ItLandry Butler20246.25 × 9.25 in. closedPerfect-bound hardcover200 pagesDigital printing This month’s review departs from my usual format, just as November 2024 has been an unusual month. I am reviewing two books together, and the books are, not…
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