Skip to Main Content

Artists' Books

Learn about artists' books and explore the Libraries' collection.
White book cover with childlike handwritten title and author.

Toy Weapons: User Manual = Armi Giocattolo: Manuale d'Uso

Martí Guixé, 2000.
 
Instruction manual that teaches how to make toy weapons from simple metal hangers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Off-white cover with title at the bottom created from die-cuts.

Absence

J. Meejin Yoon, 2003.
 
A representation of the negative space of the World Trade Center towers, each leaf of heavy paper stock has a cut-out footprint of the World Trade Center.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

An open book spread where the top and bottom halves of each page are cut and separate to allow readers to mix and match how the page looks.

Birds

Damien Poulain, 2023.
 
Through the use of a colorful and geometric visual language, Birds allows the reader to create 50 different totemic birds. The reader composes a new bird figure with every turn of the page.                                                                                                                                                                


  Report a Problem with this Page