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Artists' Books

Learn about artists' books and explore the Libraries' collection.
14 pages of the same photograph of mountains and a lake spiral outwards to form a circle.

Abecedarian

Ashley May, 2014.
 
Ashley May creates kaleidoscopic digital collages. She re-purposes the traditional use of post-cards into a 21st century communiqué: the GIF animation.                        

Book filled with black and white drawings has pages fanned out to show off the accordion folding.

Algorithm 2021

Chookiat Likitpunyarut, 2001.
 
Artist's book that was created for Xhibition in the Dark which showcases the artist's experimentation more than the usual art presentation.                                                                                          

Inside pages of book featuring drawing of a man flying out of a hat.

The Conversation

Jean Michel Folon & Milton Glaser, 1983.
 
Glaser and the French artist Jean Michel Folon...decided to celebrate that friendship by creating a book where one would start a drawing and the other would finish it.

Corona de Rosas

Maria de los Angeles, 2016.
 
Known for her paper art dresses, the idea was to design something wearable for Maria herself. Instead of a paper art dress, this is a paper crown depicting women dancing and holding hands. Each dress is embellished with images of roses, flowers, or faces in profile, and mothers embracing children.

Accordion spread of the book that reveals a portion of all of the pages and their content.

Every building on the Sunset Strip

Edward Ruscha, 1966.
 
Photographic strips documenting every building present on both sides of Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California in 1966.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Unfolded pamphlet with yellow linocut prints and black text.

Fresh Creek

Sarah Nicholls, 2019.
 
Brain Washing From Phone Towers is a series of informative and entertaining Informational Pamphlets. The content of Fresh Creek covers transportation networks, bicycling in the city, the Jamaica Bay Greenway, landfills, Robert Moses, and more.                                                                              

An accordion book made of black and blue marbled paper folded to look like a six-pointed star.

Genesis

Louise Odes Neaderland, 1998.
 
Origami-based book sculpture. The viewer can create many configurations of this book by pressing the velcro dots together and otherwise manipulating its flexible form.                                                                                                                                                                              

Opened box with 20 mini, colorful canisters. some opened to reveal miniature accordion fold-outs.

Water Department

Gail Watson, 2008.
 
Personal history recorded in nineteen memories involving tears, the human water department. Each of the seventeen round containers hold an accordion book, which pulls out with the help of a ribbon.
                                
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Zig Zag: A Book

Werner Pfeiffer, 2010.
 
An artists' book exploring zigzag folding techniques, their structural as well as their kinetic effects on paper and the unusual rhythms they create in relationship to words and text.                                                                                                                                                 


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