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Artists' Books

Learn about artists' books and explore the Libraries' collection.
Expanded flag book with one panel of text, images of a farm, and a family photo.

Bequest

Karen Hanmer, 2001.
 
The book's text outlines the brief history of the artist's immigrant farm family and lists the names of three generations.
 
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Expanded flag book where each section is a flag from a different country.

Flag Book

Fernando Lopes & Nexus Press, 1996.
 
The Flag Book includes the flags of 96 nations deconstructed and distilled into a playful book structure by Anna Wolf that invites reader interaction.
 

Expanded flag book that shows off the cover and the right side of the internal pages. Each page resembles a notebook with a purple drawing in the center.

Lessons from the South

Susan E. King, 1986.
 
This book focuses upon issues of place, memory, psyche, romance and climate as ways of understanding the experience of growing up down South.
 

Flag book with intricate cut-outs on blue and white paper.

Metamorphoses I

Islam Aly, 2015.
 
In the Metamorphoses series, Aly focuses on Islamic art and design. Metamorphoses 1 celebrates the growth and morph of a small star pattern. The geometric pattern can be equally thought of as both art and science.                                                                                                                                            
 

Expanded flag book that features images of a rocket flying towards the moon.

Destination moon

Karen Hanmer, 2003.
 
Archival photographs and documents pertaining to the Apollo Manned Space Program contrast John F. Kennedy's "Man on the Moon by the end of the decade" speech with Roy Alfred and Marvin Fisher's whimsical song Destination Moon.
 
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