Tag: Text
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Copy No. 1
Copy No. 1Edited by Vanessa Norton and Steven Trull2022Wasted Books 6 × 7 in. closed74 pages plus a single-sheet insertionPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printing Copy No. 1 is the first issue of a new periodical, a “magazine of recycled materials,” published by Wasted Books. As a celebration of plagiarism in all aspects of creative production, this debut […]
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Necrology
NecrologyLawrence Levi2021Printed by Conveyor Studio 5 × 7 in. closed48 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital offsetEdition of 100 There really isn’t much to say about death. Each metaphor for it feels imprecise; each explanation of its mechanics or significance says too little or too much. Where consciousness ends, so too do art and science or any other way […]
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Against Decorum
Against DecorumMichael Hampton2022Information as material 6.25 × 9.25 in. closed120 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverDigital printingEdition of 500 Against Decorum is a work of uncreative writing, which forges poetry from the condition descriptions in rare book catalogues. These fragments of technical terms speak to age and injury and, ultimately, love and obsession. Hampton’s remix method epitomizes the publisher’s […]
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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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How to Draw Tornadoes
How to Draw TornadoesMichael Darcy2021 8.5 × 10.75 × 1 in. closed116 pagesCase-bound, sewn on tapesLaser printing “Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.” Alexander Pope, Epistles to Several Persons In How to Draw Tornadoes, Michael Darcy explores his early education through the longstanding analogy between the […]
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To My Unborn Child
To My Unborn ChildWen-Li Chen2018 7 × 9 × 1 in. closed296 pagesSewn hardcover with exposed spineDigital printingEdition of 5 As the title implies, To My Unborn Child is an epistolary work ostensibly addressed to Chen’s then-unborn child. It addresses concerns shared by many expecting parents as well as some particular to Chen’s own inheritance […]
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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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a story, the truth, and a screenplay
a story, the truth, and a screenplayRuby Figueroa2017 5.125 × 8.25 in.96 pagesLong stitch softcoverOffset insides with letterpress covers I’m a sucker for a character that breaks the fourth wall. The camera shifts, eyes meet through the screen, and we are brought in on real-time reactions and feelings. That slicing of time — cut! — […]
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Asemic Walks: 50 Templates for Pataphysical Inspections
Asemic Walks: 50 Templates for Pataphysical InspectionsHartmut AbendscheinTimglaset Editions2020 8.25 × 6 in. closed108 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverLaser printing If the title of Asemic Walks: 50 Templates for Pataphysical Inspections seems somewhat opaque, the book itself is transparent – literally. Fifty sheets of translucent drafting vellum, each with a printed route, are bound between a few solid […]
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The Artist’s Novel
The Artist’s NovelDavid MarotoMousse Publishing2019 Part I: A New Medium8 × 6 in. closed284 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset Part II: The Fantasy of the Novel8 × 6 in. closed292 pagesPerfect-bound softcoverOffset Spanish artist/theorist David Maroto’s two-volume work of fictocriticism, The Artist’s Novel, is not an artist’s book in the traditional sense (if we can say there is […]
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