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Artists' Books

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A book spread that contains a mix of primitive-looking animal drawings, letters, and patterns.

GRRRHHHH: A Study of Social Patterns

Warren Lehrer, 1987.
 
A 464 page extended visual fugue based on the long forgotten but pivotal animals of the earth, first discovered between the warp and weft of the hand loom of artist/weaver Sandra Brownlee.                                                                                                                                                                

An opened book inside of the opened clamshell box it comes in. The book spread contains colorful collages of imaginative landscapes.

Make No Plans

Kevin Riordan, 2006.
 
Make No Plans is a sumptuous photo-collage of architectural forms gone psychedelic, in which Riordan has retained the chaotic, photo-mechanical, inky sensibility he generated with his publication Stare magazine in the pre-digital 70s and 80s.                                                                                                                                             

An opened box angled slightly to show off the drawings on the box and the lid. Inside are four small booklets, spines out, held in place by two smaller cardboard boxes.

The Rainbow Box; A Book for Each Season & A Peace Poster

Joseph Pintauro & Norman Laliberté, 1970.
 
A colorful box containing four small booklets. Rainbow Box is full of hippie and beat style funneled through Vatican II religious sensibility.                                                                                                                        

An opened book where the left page is entirely made of yellow-colored homemade paper and the right page contains photocopied images of sculptures.

The Columns

Paula Hocks, 1982.
 
This book, consisting mainly of photocopied collages and photomontages, with several mounted color photos, was self-published in Sante Fe, New Mexico in 1982 in an edition of six copies only. Loosely inlaid is a photo taken by Hocks of two columns in Bath, UK in 1982.


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