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Fragments
From the Stacked Deck
by Judy Anderson
$22.00
boxed set of looseleafed cards, multi-color
6 1/2 x 3 1/4
1995
ISBN 0-932526-52-7 |
In Fragments from the Stacked Deck,
Judy Anderson literally shows the stacked deck.
In a boxed set of thirty cards such as might be used to tell
fortunes, Anderson uses text and symbols to
respond to reports of violence against women. Fragments of text
taken from daily news reports are juxtaposed with images, visual
fragments (a fold-out sheet inserted into the deck like a set
of instructions), and a voice that displays and rebuts the attitudes
imposed on women. |
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Maple Leaf
Rag
by Ellen Banks
$50.00
hard-bound folder with loose sheets
12 1/2 x 18
1989
ISBN 0-932526-63-2 |
Maple Leaf Rag is a systemic
transformation of Scott Joplin’s musical score into a
tumbling sequence of colors and patterns. Holding the hard cover
folio makes the viewer/reader feel like a soloist performing
the score. |
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Analemmic
by Leslie Bellavance
$22.00
cloth case-bound with blind embossing, duotones, twelve printed
bookmarks
6 x 4 3/8
1997
ISBN 0-932526-61-6 |
In a small binding, Analemmic: An Equation
of Time assembles full pages and fold-outs, all in
shades of black and rose. Leslie Bellavance’s
beautiful handbook-sized book presents a continuous landscape
of photographic backdrops and gardens along with a series of
lists of life’s regrets (some on bookmarks and some beautifully,
almost secretly, printed on the landscapes). A narrator who
is visually present, guides the reader through the space of
time and the voice of regret. |
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Evidence
of Living
by Robin Bernat
$20.00
one folded sheet
4 x 2
1991
ISBN 0-932526-73-X |
Evidence of Living puts the
acknowledgments page literally at center stage in an origami-like
structure that brings together artistic process and the artist’s
personal life. This bookwork is a child’s paper folding
game from the elementary school playground. |
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Lupus Viator
Atlanta
by Darya von Berner
$50.00
case-bound, duotone, four color
8 3/4 x 10 1/4
1997
ISBN 0-932526-58-6 |
Lupus Viator (Latin for “wolf
walking”) is an installation by Spanish artist Darya
von Berner that has been on a pilgrimage through galleries
and museums of the world and into cyberspace. The
monumental wall painting engulfed Nexus Press and is now reincarnated
in book form, a segment on each page: One hundred books opened
and laid out in a 10 x 10 foot book grid in sequential order
will recreate the whole image. The history of the installation
can be seen in the
postscript. Lupus Viator Atlanta is one of
five books published in collaboration with the Cultural Olympiad
of the 1996 Olympic games. |
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Four
Red Duotones
by Brad Brace
$20.00
4 posters rolled in a mailing tube
17 x 23
1987
ISBN 0-932526-62-4
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Four Red Duotones
is an essay on scale and meaning. Each of the four posters features
an ambiguous photograph of an object taken from nature or culture
and placed in its own context. |
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Hidden
Agenda
by Meryl Brater
$20.00
soft-bound, accordion fold with portfolio case
5 3/4 x 8
1991
ISBN 0-932526-32-2 |
Hidden Agenda is a luscious
essay on mark-making that looks and feels handmade. Its circular
accordion of shifting colors, patterns, and symbols has an oriental
elegance and simplicity that is also echoed in the book’s
envelope case. |
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Strip Tease
by Katie Burkart
$20.00
soft-bound, saddle-stitched with sleeve, duotone
4 x 5
2000
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In Katie Burkart’s book
Strip Tease, the city itself disrobes: we get
to see the back sides of strip-mall classics like Target and
Sam’s Club, as if each store is emulating the naked female
back that introduces the book. It’s a postmodern fandance. |
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Mine Fields
by Bill Burke
$50.00
case-bound, gate folds,
duotone and four color
8 7/8 x 11 1/4
pamphlet-style 16 page journal/book insert
5 3/8 x 8 1/8
1995
ISBN 0-932526-50-0 |
Mine Fields (a sequel to Bill
Burke’s justly famous I Want to Take
Picture), is Burke’s scrapbook
of his life and his pursuit of the history and daily life of
Cambodia. Part adventure story, part personal confession, part
travelogue, and always fascinating, Burke’s
negotiation of the mine fields of divorce and war is a compelling
collage of photographs, found objects, stories, and the contrast
between glorious ancient temples and the horrors of war and
genocide. |
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Knowledge
of the World
by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
$50.00
looseleafed cards in cloth covered box with foil stamp, four
color
cards - 4 /12 x 6 1/4
box - 5 1/8 x 7 1/4 x 3 5/8
1998
ISBN 0-932526-59-4 |
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
is a purveyor of universal truths who sends his visions of the
universe, politics, and life out to the world from his home
on the Ivory Coast. Knowledge of the World
assembles in a blue cloth box a set of two hundred loose cards
in Bouabré’s typical postcard-like
format: a metaphoric reliquary for his spiritual missives and
a dense statement of the solidity and strength of his art and
his creed. Knowledge of the World is one of
five books
published in collaboration with the Cultural Olympiad of the
1996 Olympic games. |
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Ned Cartledge
(casebound)
by Ned Cartledge
$30.00
case-bound, four color
101/4G x 11 1/4
1986
ISBN 0-932526-12-8 |
A catalogue of the work by a unique folk artist,
whose progressive political satire is unfailingly on target
on each of his carved tableaux. The book also includes an insightful
text by Robert Westervelt and an autobiographical essay by Cartledge. |
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Ned Cartledge
(softbound)
by Ned Cartledge
$20.00
soft-bound, four color
10 1/4 x11 1/4
1986
ISBN 0-932526-42-x |
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Poems by Richard
C.
by Richard Craven
$20.00
spiral-bound
8 1/4 x 10
1987
ISBN 0-932526-15-2 |
Poems by Richard C. presents
the deadpan humor of this conceptual and mail artist in an ideal,
self-deprecating format, the spiral bound notepad. Anything
you write onto the blank pages of this notepad becomes a poem
by Richard C.! |
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B O
by Ben Davis, George Hemphill, and Sarah Schroth
$25.00
perfect-bound, soft cover, black and white
8 x 8 7/8
1978
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B O is a philosophical “exquisite
corpse,” a 1977-78 correspondence among a group of artists.
This book is a visual, theoretical, and conceptual document
of an era in art and artists’ books that also anticipates
the future of artist-centered networks for making and distributing
art. One of the earliest Nexus Press books produced, B
O was considered to be out of print for many years.
Recently a box of them was “unearthed” in southern
California! |
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Iconomics:
Money
by Miles DeCoster
$20.00
soft-bound, saddle-stitched
8 1/4 x 10
1984
ISBN 0-932526-08-X |
Iconomics: Money is a riot of
metallic, fluorescent, and kitschy inks that delineate a manic
history of real and fanciful means of exchange. |
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Television
by Miles DeCoster
$20.00
case-bound, cloth cover, multi-color
6 1/4 x 8 3/4
1985
ISBN 0-932526-67-5 |
DeCoster’s Television
is a pixillated history of the progress of media culture and
the deterioration of literacy. This hard bound book reads like
a documentary film as it induces laughter, imparts information,
and previews the end of civilization. |
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Otherspace:
Martian Ty/opography
by Johanna Drucker and Brad Freeman
$35.00
hard cover, smythe-sewn, duotone
6 3/4 x 6 3/4
1992
ISBN 0-932526-41-1 |
Jane, a scientist, has an encounter with the
“Other” which forces her to confront issues of difference
in cross-cultural relations. The work draws on contemporary
sources as well as archival materials in the history of astronomy,
planetary observation, and interplanetary communication. |
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Oostamera
by Martin Emanuel
$20.00
spiral-bound, cover fabricated from an onion sack
7 1/4 x 8
1991
ISBN 0-932526-34-9 |
Oostamera is an artist’s
notebook of texts and photographs that overlays personal and
social myths, local and universal experiences, profundity and
kitsch, personal and universal traces of mankind in the landscape
- all seen through Emanuel’s off-center
point of view. |
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Genetics
Lesson
by Ann Fessler
$20.00
soft-bound, multi-color
5 I x 8
1992
ISBN 0-932526-37-3 |
Through circumstances of adoption, Fessler
addresses the stereotypes of intimate relationships, re-examining
choices made by her birth mother that profoundly affected the
lives of her adoptive mother and herself. |
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Dominion
by Andrew Forster
$20.00
spiral-bound, multi-color
17 1/2 x 23
1989
ISBN 0-932526-27-6 |
Dominion’s seven huge
pages,
spiral bound at the top, form a sequence of flatbeds onto which
Forster projects a visual vocabulary of contemporary
culture, everyday life, miniature narratives, and orderly disorder. |
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Tornado Treaty
by Janie Geiser
$20.00
perfect-bound, soft cover in foil stamp, multi-color
5 1/4 x 5 1/4
1985
ISBN 0-932526-23-3 |
Janie Geiser’s Tornado
Treaty reveals her talents as both a painter and a
puppeteer - her dramatic parable of weapons, deceit, and disaster
is animated by brilliant color and lively design. |
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If You Sleep
On Your Other Side It Will Go Away
by Pattie Belle Hastings
$24.00
case-bound, various paper stocks
7 1/2 x 7 1/2
1991
ISBN 0-932526-33-0 |
This book combines dreams and longing, trains
and brain scans, and a personal visual mythology in a haunting
and beautifully produced book, printed in an evocative sequence
of metallic colors, translucent overlays, and poetic images. |
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SERIF(im)
by Pattie Belle Hastings
$8.00
soft-bound, multi-colored paper, four color cover
5 1/2 x 8 1/4
1985
ISBN 0-932526-68-3 |
In a format that resembles a paper sample booklet,
SERIF(im) uses the pun in its title as the
starting point for a metaphysical ramble through a world of
angels, monsters, animals, and the printed word. |
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Libro Quemado
by Leandro Katz
$20.00
hand-bound, soft cover, four color
10 1/2 x 5 1/2
1995
ISBN 0-932526-54-3 |
Leandro Katz’s Libro
Quemado ("Burnt Book") imagines (in Spanish
and English) the Mayan codices discovered and burned by a Spanish
colonial priest in 1562. Katz reclaims the
history of the native culture of Yucatan on the 500th anniversary
of Columbus’ first voyage. |
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Desire
and the Importance of Failure
by Shelagh Keeley
$50.00
case-bound, duotone and four color
11 1/4 x 15 3/4
1996
ISBN 0-932526-53-5 |
With sensual renderings of body parts, clothing,
furniture, and other mysterious images, Canadian artist Shelagh
Keeley explores the ideas of interior and exterior,
of collecting and possessing. Desire and the Importance
of Failure: lo spirito della storia naturale is beautifully
visualized and conceptually profound—a gorgeous and sensual
treat for the eye and mind. Desire and the Importance
of Failure is one of five books published in collaboration
with the Cultural Olympiad of the 1996 Olympic games. |
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Ad Infinitum
by Michael Klauke
$20.00
perfect-bound
8 x 5
1987
ISBN 0-915427-09-5 |
Ad Infinitum is a hypertext
from before hypertext. In 1987, Michael Klauke
pulled words one at a time from 10 classics and reassembled
them in the syntax of an 11th, Balzac’s Sarrasine (a favorite
novel of Structuralism). The result is a structuralist-automatic
novel, further complicated by the images copied by hand in various
media drawn from various historical and contemporary source |
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Totems 1,2,3
by Lewis Koch
$20.00 each,
$40.00 set of three
accordion fold, duotone, soft cover slipcase for each volume
slipcase - 8 x 6 1/8
opens to 7 7/8 x 41 3/8
1993
vol. 1 - ISBN 0-932526-43-8
vol. 2 - ISBN 0-932526-44-6
vol. 3 - ISBN 0-932526-45-4 |
Totem Books 1, 2 and 3 is a
trilogy of boxed, accordion folded translations of Lewis
Koch’s photographic totems, assembling urban
images as totems appropriate for contemporary daily life. Koch
addresses the human urge to subjugate nature (in Double Caution
Totem), rampant militarism and overpopulation (in Surplus Koan
Totem), and the tenuousness of the current social fabric (in
Slender Thread Totem), each a witty and precise invocation of
political and personal iconography. |
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(Ho+Go)2 = It
by Ruth Laxson
$30.00
hard-bound, hand-sewn
8 1/2 x 10 1/2
1986
ISBN 0-932526-10-1 |
Laxson’s faux notebook has the look and
feel of a children’s book but is actually a transformation
into offset printing, the philosophical and visual intensity
of her intricate letterpress artist’s books. |
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The Dog Bite
by Irene Ledwith
$20.00
perfect-bound, multi-color
7 x 8 1/4
1988
ISBN 0-932526-20-9 |
Simple cartoon imagery encapsulates
with great economy of line and word a meditation on ethics and
violence. Ledwith’s restraint in the
use of color and assigning responsibility gives the story a
large emotional and moral impact. |
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The Flag Book:
Interaction Towards a Better World
by Fernando Lopes
$20.00
repeated accordion fold, slipcase, multi-color
4 1/2 x 4 1/2 expands to 50 inches in length
1996
ISBN 0-932526-56-x |
Flag Book: Interaction Towards a Better
World is Fernando Lopes’ contribution
to the Nexus Press project for the 1996 Olympics. Lopes
presents the flags of the Olympic nations in a complex double
accordion fold that illustrates and demonstrates the “interaction”
that the artist sees as the hope for the world’s future. |
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Kem Dreams
While Russia Sleeps
by Clifton Meador
$20.00
soft-bound, saddle-stitched, duotone
2 1/2 x 3 3/4
2000
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Kem Dreams While Russia Sleeps
is a companion volume to Memory Lapse. In this
small book, Meador implies the ironies of his
Russian experience in the sarcastic divergence of text and reality
as he presents the “exotic” city of Kem in the language
of tourism and the vision of drab, Soviet reality. |
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Memory
Lapse
by Clifton Meador
$50.00
cloth case-bound with printed dust cover,
duotone, tritone and four color
5 1/4 x 8
1999
ISBN 0-932526-83-7 |
Memory Lapse, by Clifton
Meador, shows Meador’s mastery
of the form of the visual book in the pacing and interlacing
of photos and text. The text itself uses the layered history
of a significant site (a remote Russian monastery that served
as the first prison camp in the Gulag) to interrogate the nature
of memory and memorials, humanity and inhumanity. |
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Implementing
Architecture
by Robert Miller
$50.00
hard-bound, accordian fold with slipcase
12 1/2 x 8
1988
ISBN 0-932526-25-x |
Implementing Architecture is
a dense meditation on the influence of the tools of architects
and architecture. The prize-winning design is a beautiful slipcase
game board that sets the scholarly and provocative texts in
an elegant relationship. |
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Fierce
Power Bad Fate
by Carol Munder
$20.00
soft-bound, tritone
11 1/4 x 7 1/2
1986
ISBN 0-932526-13-6 |
Vague black and white Diana
photographs, simple first person narrative, and direct presentation
of ve’ve (ritual symbols) adds up to a more powerful evocation
of voodoo than anything since Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen. |
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Dottie’s
Closet
by Angela Nichols
$20.00
looseleaf paperdolls in envelope
6 1/2 x 3 1/2
1998 |
In Dottie’s Closet, Angela
Nichols gives us Dottie and eight outfits: a paper
doll and a youthful sense of the casually chic. |
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Their Nightmare
by Kim Knox Norman
$20.00
spiral-bound, soft cover, duotone
3 x 3
1991
ISBN 0-932526-75-6 |
Their Nightmare is a mysterious
nighttime journey conveyed in narrative and abstract imagery.
This book’s extraordinary effect is the result of its
eerie melange of madness, anger, threat, flight, dreams, and
death. |
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The Anti Warhol
Museum
by Bonnie O’Connell
$25.00
die-cut accordion structure in a zip lock bag
5 I x 4 I
1993
ISBN 0-932526-48-9
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The Anti-Warhol Museum: Proposals for
the Socially Responsible Disposal of Warholia is Bonnie
O’Connell’s response to Warhol-mania. A
portable museum in a book that covers architecture, gallery,
installation, and social document. |
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ATlanta: 1945+50
by Shinro Ohtake
$250.00
case-bound with hand-bound miniature book attached, smythe-sewn,
four color printed with fluorescent inks, various paper stocks,
26 tipped in vintage photos,
8 5/8 x 5 3/4
1996
ISBN 0-932526-55-1 |
Ohtake’s book is a rich
document of the visual rhythms of Tokyo’s street and Atlanta’s
cultural history. Each copy is unique. The printing incorporated
paper from a variety of sources, including printed ephemera
and billboard fragments, all overprinted with a dense imagery.
Culled from a huge range of cultural sources, ATlanta
creates a complex cross-cultural vision in jarring, fluorescent
color and colliding cultural signifiers - plus a miniature bonus
book attached by a blue thread representing the ocean that separates
Japan and America. ATlanta 1945+50 is one of
five books published in collaboration with the cultural Olympiad
of the 1996 Olympic games. |
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Warwick Mountain
Series
by Philip Perkis
$24.00
case-bound, cloth covered, duotone
9 x 11
1979
ISBN 0-932526-01-2 |
Warwick Mountain Series demonstrates
Philip Perkis’ mastery of landscape photography,
visions of the impact of man on the land, and images of the
body as a social and physical presence. The book also demonstrates
a subtle understanding of the specific qualities of the off-set
printed photograph. |
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Insomnia
by Richard Russell
$20.00
soft -bound, saddle-stitched, four color
4 x 4
1991
ISBN 0-932526-36-5 |
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An Intrusion:
Self Applied
by Stan Sharshal
$20.00
folio in envelope with crack-and-peel leaf
11 1/2 x 11 1/8
1998
ISBN 0-932526-85-3 |
A do-it-yourself installation by the late Stan
Sharshal, whose work involved minimal interventions
into spaces of habitation (or habitual spaces), An Intrusion
gives the instructions for application of the crack-and-peel
intervention to one’s own space. The intervention itself
is a fascinating combination of the Minimalist and the free-form,
inside and outside, real and imaginary. |
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Voyage(r): A
Tourist Map to Japan
by Clarissa Sligh
$35.00
soft-bound, smythe-sewn, duotone in lined cloth sheath
5 x 7 1/4
2000
ISBN 0-932526-81-0 |
Travel abroad provides opportunities for revelations
about oneself as well as other cultures. But what happens when
the traveler is already the “other” even in her
own country? Through journals, photographs, calligraphic drawings,
found texts, and the enclosing cloth “sheath” (all
relating to her trip to Japan), African-American artist Clarissa
Sligh explores rituals, personal and politcal stereotypes,
and history. |
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Bobby: Book
100
by Keith Smith
$20
perfect-bound
8 1/2 x 10 1/2
1985
ISBN 0-932526-70-5 |
Keith Smith’s Book
No. 100 is printed in magenta, cyan, and yellow from
pages generated on a dot-matrix printer. The deceptively simple
narrative brings together, in eerily suggestive and interpenetrating
images, the experience of having an imaginary playmate and an
exploration of the structure of books. |
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Very Great
Poets Series Anthology Volume II
by Acme Theatre
$20.00
perfect-bound, black and white
5 1/4 x 8 1/2
1987
ISBN 0-932526-14-4 |
The Very Great Poets Series Anthology
Volume II is a dead-on, no-holds barred parody of poetry
anthologies. Even the “notes on the type” at the
end is hilarious. |
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No Trespassing
by Val Tillery
$20.00
miniature, hard-bound, four color
4 x 1 7/8
1991
ISBN 0-932526-64-0 |
No Trespassing is a marriage
of the wood-cut novel and a book of postage stamps, with its
own colorful surprises revealed only by the reader’s physical
intervention. |
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Motorcycles
From Around the World
by Paul Trautwein
$20.00
one sheet folded, four color
closed-5 1/2 x 6 1/4
open - 16 H x 22 poster book
1991
ISBN 0-932526-77-2 |
A poster-book that portrays the parked motorcycle
as a global pop icon, beautifully montaged and printed. |
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The Pink Mat
Monster
by Patt Wagner
$20.00
soft-bound, four color
7 x 7
1987
ISBN 0-932526-71-3 |
The Pink Mat Monster is a snapshot
album that relates the adventures of a bathtub mat, its pet
loofa, a spotted shower curtain, and the heroine (unseen except
for painted toenails). |
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For
Nothing Changes…Yet
by Todd Walker
$35.00
perfect-bound, cloth case- bound, four color, french fold
5 1/2 x 7 1/2
2000
ISBN 0-932526-82-9 |
For Nothing Changes…
was Todd Walker’s first artist’s
book, and this revised (really re-imagined) edition is the late
artist’s last book. Beautifully manipulated and printed
photographs are interspersed with texts from contemporary news
media and
from Burton’s 17th-century Anatomy of Melancholy. The
interweaving brings together a rich, sensual experience and
the eternal comedy of human folly. |
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Long Story
Short
by Philip Zimmermann
$50.00
spiral-bound with fold-outs, wrap around soft cover, four
color
8 1/2 x 10 1/2
1999
ISBN 0-932526-84-5 |
Long Story Short, by Philip
Zimmermann, tells the story of early ‘50s American
consumer culture through its own visual and verbal cliches.
Quoted in abstracted, fragmented ways by means of extreme magnification
of photographs (emphasizing and exploding the dots of the color
separations) and jigsaw-like, segmented catch-phrases, the result
is a poignant life-journey. |
