Tag: Text

• couplets and questions

  

  Review by Eric Morris-Pusey couplets and questionsAndrew ShawThe Silent Academy couplets20195 × 5 in. closed78 pagesSoft-cover perfect bindingHP Indigo questions5 × 5 in. closed202058 pagesSoft-cover perfect bindingHP Indigo “Imagination,” author John Higgs begins his foreword to Andrew Shaw’s couplets, “isn’t what it used to be.” The statement was true enough when he first put it…

  Eric Morris-Pusey

  December 18, 2020

  Review

  2019, 2020, Andrew Shaw, couplets, HP Indigo, John Higgs, Monograph, Perfect / Double-Fan Adhesive, Poetry, questions, Softcover, Text, The Silent Academy

• Tools for Extinction

  

  Tools for Extinction is an anthology made of, for, against, within and in spite of this pandemic.

  Levi Sherman

  September 3, 2020

  Review

  2020, Anthology, Book design, COVID-19, Denise Rose Hansen, Fiction, Lolli Editions, Monograph, Nonfiction, Offset Lithography, Pandemic, Perfect / Double-Fan Adhesive, Poetry, Prose, Publication, publishing, small press, Softcover, Studio Ard, Text, Translation

• Students

  Tia Blassingame’s history of an integrated school offers a corrective to the way historical narratives about anti-Black violence are often presented.

  Levi Sherman

  August 3, 2020

  Review

  2019, artists’ book, Brochure, Documentary, Folded, Henry Highland Garnet, Monograph, Noyes Academy, Risograph, Single Sheet, Text, Tia Blassingame

• One Hundred Excellent Flowers

  

  Calling on the aesthetics and politics of the 1960s, One Hundred Excellent Flowers questions the possibility of freedom in the absence of truth.

  Levi Sherman

  July 6, 2020

  Review

  artists’ book, book art, book review, Clifton Meador, color separations, Essay, flowers, half-tone, junk food, Offset Lithography, Photography, pop art, Screw Post, Softcover, Text

• 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

• ISOLATIONS

  

  ISOLATIONS is a process-oriented publication that reveals the labor of poetics and the poetics of labor.

  Levi Sherman

  April 27, 2020

  Review

  2019, art writing, broadside, catalog card, Collaboration, Envelope, Glassine, Google Doc, Handmade Paper, Huldra Press, Internet Art Book Fair, ISOLATIONS, Leah Mackin, Letterpress, Marianne Dages, Monograph, Poetry, Review, Rubber stamp, Single Sheet, Text

• Tiny Dino’s Grand Field Museum Adventure

  

  Tiny Dino’s Grand Field Museum Adventure” is an improvisational critique of the museum as an institution, told as a children’s book featuring toy dinosaurs.

  Levi Sherman

  March 24, 2020

  Review

  2020, art, art and writing, art writing, artists’ book, Carley Gomez, Chicago, Dinosaur, Fiction, Field Museum, Mold-A-Rama, Monograph, museum, Perfect / Double-Fan Adhesive, Photography, Print on demand, Shutterfly, Softcover, Text

• Voragem

  

  VoragemIsabel Baraona and Catarina Domingues2016 7.625 × 10.25 in.32 pagesBinding: Dos-a-dos; saddle-stitched pamphlets tied into the cover, with an unbound pamphlet insertedDigital and offset printingEdition of 100 As a medium, books are noteworthy for their finitude. This seems increasingly significant in an era of infinite internet and endlessly reconfigurable data. So it is perhaps surprising…

  Levi Sherman

  February 25, 2020

  Review

  2016, art, art and writing, art writing, artists’ book, Belly Band, book review, Catarina Domingues, Collaboration, Dos-a-Dos, Drawing, Isabel Baraona, Monograph, Pamphlet, Poetry, Portuguese, primary colors, Saddle Stitch, Text, voragem

• Seed Vault

  

  A collection of memories inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, “Seed Vault” uses the book form to imbue a text with rewarding multiple meanings.

  Levi Sherman

  January 19, 2020

  Review

  2017, artists’ book, Essay, memory, Monograph, Nonfiction, Pamphlet, photobook, Photography, Saddle Stitch, seed vault, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Text

• 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