Tag: Monograph
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Poems Sneaking Through a Sieve
Poems Sneaking Through a SieveRiley CavanaughHave a Nice Day Press2022 Spiral-bound softcover8.5 × 6.25 in.66 pagesDigital printingEdition of 500 Poems Sneaking Through a Sieve combines poems from two series, one derived from spam emails and the other from CAPTCHAs, into a single, spiral-bound compendium. Riley Cavanaugh’s visual poetry and hand-drawn annotations are accompanied by a…
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Been Magic * Been Real
Been Magic * Been Real: A Guide for an Everyday RevolutionHelina MetaferiaCenter for Book Arts2024 7 × 65 in. openPaper scroll in cardstock enclosure with leather strapRisographEdition of 250 Been Magic * Been Real: A Guide for an Everyday Revolution is inspired by centuries-old Ethiopian healing scrolls. The 65-inch, vertical scroll combines text and image,…
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The Usual Arteries
The Usual ArteriesErin DorneyIlluminated Press2024 4.25 × 4.25 in. foldedSingle cut and folded sheet in a paper slipcaseInk jet inside with letterpress and screen printed slipcaseEdition of 250 The Usual Arteries is a single illustrated poem on a single sheet of paper that nevertheless unfolds into a captivating reading experience that thoughtfully engages the book…
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Tender to Empress
Tender to EmpressMaureen AlsopWet Cement Press2022 8 × 8 in. closed114 pagesPerfect-bound hardcoverInk jet Tender to Empress is a collection of visual poems by poet, artist, and psychologist, Maureen Alsop. These digital collage-poems began as a gallery installation, but the book has its own dynamics, thoughtfully pairing pages into spreads and sequencing the poems toward…
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Jericho’s Daughter
Jericho’s DaughterWarren Lehrer and Sharon HorvathEarSay2024 6.75 × 9 in. closed50 pagesSoftcover dos-á-dos with wraparound cover and string and button enclosureHP Indigo Jericho’s Daughter reimagines the biblical story of Jericho, this time told from the perspective of Rahab, the Canaanite prostitute who is spared by Joshua when the Israelites raze Jericho and who, having converted…
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Prisoners’ Inventions
Prisoners’ InventionsAngeloTemporary Services (Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer)Edited by Mairead Case and designed by Partner & PartnersHalf Letter Press2020 8.5 × 5.5 in. closed200 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Prisoners’ Inventions is what the title suggests: a compendium of devices designed, built, and used by people incarcerated in US prisons. First published in 2003 with WhiteWalls, this…
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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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O meu coração bate sem mim
O meu coração bate sem mimAlexandra AgostinhoDesign by Rita Oliveira and production by Isabel Baraona2019 23.25 × 6 in. openSingle sheet (6 accordion-folded pages)4.3125 × 6.25 in. bi-fold paper enclosure with ribbon tieDigital offset printing Alexandra Agostinho’s O meu coração bate sem mim is an instance of genderqueer expression that makes gender both a performance…
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本の本の本
Antoine Lefebvre本の本の本 2021Antoine Lefebvre Editions 21 × 10.5 in. open48 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset printing “The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” Sol LeWitt, “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” Art Forum, 1967. 本の本の本 is a conceptual photographic artists’ book stemming from Antoine Lefebvre’s travels to Japan. Each duplex-printed page in the perfect-bound paperback has nine square photographs of…
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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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