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Title: Cortona Clothesline
Creator: Katie Gonzalez
Date: 2008
Publisher/Press: Nashville, Tennessee : Linen Laid & Felt
Call Number: N7433.4 .G6475 C67 2008
Subject: Clothes, Artists' Books
Description: Artist's statement: "While studying the art of bookbinding in Cortona, Italy, I began to love the daily sight of hanging laundry on lines strung from Tuscan mountainside homes. When I returned stateside, I channeled the imagery into my artwork. To create this book, I layered ink on both sides of the pages using a monoprint technique to create an expressive blend of rich blues and greens. Then I illustrated a clothesline full of women's garments, which I carved into a large block of wood. Using this block, I layered a woodblock print on top of one side of the monoprint background. After the printing process, I hand-stitched yellow embroidery thread through the paper to represent the clothesline before folding the pages into an accordion. To create the covers, I cut out the shape of a dress from blue fabric and appliquéd it onto green fabric. I stitched clothespins and the line on the cover as well"--Email from artist, received February 9, 2016. "Cortona Clothesline was printed and bound in the spring of 2008 using monoprint and relief techniques. You are holding book 3 of 3. Katie garner 2008."
Title: *[isosceles romance]
Creator: Katie Gonzalez
Date: 2012
Publisher/Press: Nashville, Tennessee : Linen Laid & Felt
Call Number: N7433.4 .G6475 I76 2012
Subject: Math, Love
Description: Artist's statement: "The inspiration stems from a high school geometry class where I first met my future husband. The first time we talked, he asked me a question about isosceles trapezoids (from our geometry homework). Somehow that lead to our first date, and - nine years later - marriage. We always give credit to geometry for the start of our relationship. An artists' book, bound in a delicate accordion that incorporates collagraph prints, drypoint prints, and a collection of mixed papers, including pages salvaged from a vintage geometry textbook. In an edition of 12." --Email from artist, received February 9, 2016.
Title: Ladies’ Diary: being a repository for daily musings and observations on the domestic life
Creator: Gilded Leaf
Date: 2016
Publisher/Press: Maryville, Tennessee : The Gilded Leaf
Call Number: Z269.3.F55 L33 2016
Subject: bookbinding, papermaking
Description: "The paper is a 60" cream white, an excellent match with the machine-made paper of the period. ... Patterned after common bindings of the day, the spine is black morocco leather, with sides of heavily embossed cloth. Endsheets are a plain yellow, replicating a very common 19th century endpaper" Binder's blank model.
Title: Bird & Diz
Creator: Golio, Gary and Young, Ed
Date: 2015
Publisher/Press: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press
Call Number: ML3929 .G59 2015
Subject: Music, African Americans, Biography, Juvenile Works
Description: Presents a rhythmic tribute to Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and their creation of bebop.
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Title: Deeply Honored
Creator: Fred Hagstrom
Date: 2010
Publisher/Press: St. Paul, Minn. : Strong Silent Type Press
Call Number: Oversize N7433.4 .H2 D3 2010
Subject: Japanese-Americans
Description: enlarged photos and letters about a Japanese-American soldier. After being interned with his parents at the Minikoda Internment Camp in Idaho, Frank Masao Shigemura was released to attend Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, with the help of the newly formed National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, headed by John W. Nason. Although Shigemura described his year at Carleton as the best of his life, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was killed in battle in France on October 20, 1944. When Carleton published a memorial "Gold Star" booklet which honored the Carleton men who had been killed in the war, Mr. and Mrs. Shigemura responded with the first of many donations to the college. From their correspondence, Carleton President Laurence M. Gould developed a friendship with the Shigemuras, and as their contributions continued, helped establish the Frank Shigemura Scholarship at Carleton. The alumni felt Frank's loyalty should be made public and asked George Grimm, a columnist, to write about it. Grimm wrote a series of articles on the Shigemuras's generosity; the articles were collected and reprinted elsewhere.
Title: I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere…
Creator: Damien Hirst
Date: 1997
Publisher/Press: New York : Monacelli Press
Call Number: N7433.4 .H57 A4 1997
Subject: Surrealism, Toy and moveable books
Description: illustrations of Damien Hirst's controversial work. In publisher's dust jacket. Includes pop-ups and movable parts; die-cut components; some illustrations are tipped in; and essays by Gordon Burn and Stuart Morgan.
Title: Medieval Binding: The Girdle Book
Creator: Karen Hanmer
Date: 2015
Publisher/Press: Glenview, IL : Karen Hanmer
Call Number: Z269.3 .M44 H36 2015
Subject: Book Binding
Description: The girdle book is a medieval binding structure featuring a long extension of leather which could be attached to a traveler's belt. This leather extends from the tail of the book, so the text can be read while the book is still attached to the reader's belt. The extension often terminates in a decorative knot or hook." -- Introduction. Medieval Girdle book: Text block sewn on double supports. Wooden boards shaped all around, with special attention given to the inside spine edge to match the text block's shoulder. Spine linings extend beyond the text block and attach to the inside of the boards. Text block laced onto boards and cords pegged in. Sewn headbands also laced into the boards. The girdle book model also includes : Full covering in vividly-colored leather, strap and pin closure, corner bosses, vellum foredge markers, turk's head knot to finish leather extension at the binding's tail. -- From artist's website.
Title: Displacement
Creator: Kathy T. Hettinga
Date: 2018
Publisher/Press: Dillsburg, Pennsylvania : Kathy T. Hettinga
Call Number: N7433.4.H485 D57 2018
Subject: nature, humans effect, environmental degradation,
Description: "Displacement is the removal from the normal location or position. We are living in times of immense displacement and relocation of peoples from their homes, and natural resources from the earth. My book begins with looking at the bleak mid-winter trees in central Pennsylvania. Driving through the hilly farmlands, old houses are perched precariously near highways, and dense woods overtaken by high-voltage transmission towers and power plants. Inspired by Heidi Kyle's The Art of the Fold, Displacement riffs off of her One-Sheet structure, the Eight-Section Offset Cut. The offset cuts, reminiscent of an Advent calendar, conceal and reveal, small creatures hidden within: a brilliant, orange-headed, female Western Oriole, and house mouse take their dislocated places beneath the eastern woods and farmhouse respectively. The branches of sycamores create white lines out of the dense woods, tiny pathways of hope in a bleak time"--Artist's statement
Title: A quarterly farming journal for Alabamians
Creator: Annie Herlocker
Date: 2009
Publisher/Press: Tuscaloosa : Paper Revival Press
Call Number: TX715.2.S68 H47 2009
Subject: Alabama, cooking, family farms, south
Description: "The purpose of printing this journal is to provide a tool for anyone on the hunt for local foods--or local recipes."--Prelim. " ... printed and bound by Annie Stalling ... The text is Optima and was letterpress printed from photopolymer plates on French construction paper."
Title: When I First Arrived in Baghdad
Creator: Stan Honda, Fred Hagstrom
Date: 2011
Publisher/Press: Northfield, Minn. : Strong Silent Type Press
Call Number: DS79.762 .H65 2011
Subject: War documentary, war photography
Description: metal cover, silk screened, half-tone photos and brief captions Photographs and text by Stan Honda; with permission from Agence France Presse. Printed in silk-screen, wire edge binding, Futura font.
Title: Flatland : a romance of many dimensions
Creator: Edwin Abbott Abbott (author), Andrew Hoyem (artist, printer, publisher)
Date: 1980
Publisher/Press: San Francisco : Arion Press
Call Number: QA699 .A13 1980
Subject: visual literature, geometry and physics in literature and art
Description: "A satire about a two-dimensional world vexed by single- and multi-dimensionality that has been continuously in print since first published in 1884, enjoyed by young students of geometry and sophisticated physicists alike, and hailed as a precursor of science fiction"
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Title: 1492: What is it like to be discovered
Creator: Small, Deborah; Jaffee, Maggie
Date Published: 1991
Publisher: New York: Monthly Review Press
Call Number: N7433.4 .S43 A4 1991
Subject: United States History, Colonialism, Imperialism
Description: "1492 What Is It Like to Be Discovered?" is not just a book but a piece of art. It is subversive literature disguised as a coffee table book. Deborah Small and Maggie Jaffe have wrapped their politically explosive poetry and prose in brown paper like cheap vodka from a package store destined to be a Molotov Cocktail. The brown pages are printed chiefly with the sixteenth-century engravings of Theodore de Bry whose book with Girolamo Benzoni, "Great Voyages", and Bartolome de Las Casa's "Narratio Regionum" illustrate and graphically detail the atrocities of the European invasion of America. Other historical images are pulled from Amerigo Vespucci's "New World" and various pop-culture sources from films to Columbus Day advertisements. Bridging these prints and montages are the poetry of Jaffe and the imagery and text from three of Small's NEA fellowships: "1492", "New World [Women], and "Empire/Elan/Ecstasy". Amazon Review- Gregory Alan Wingo
Title: Cosmology
Creator: Helen Heibert Carl Adamshick, Diane Jacobs
Date: 2012
Publisher/Press: Portland, Oregon : Helen Hiebert Studio
Call Number: N7433.4 .H533 C67 2012
Subject: Japanese inspired, Artists' Books, Memory, Silence
Description: The book structure was inspired by an interest in Japanese architecture. The artist-made paper is 100% cotton, featuring a pigmented pulp lamination. The poem, Cosmology, was written specifically for the book by Carl Adamshick. Letterpress printing: Diane Jacobs; laser cutting: Joe Freedman. Issued in a paper wrapper with circular cut-out to reveal title. Accordion-folded book slips out of cover and opens to reveal six pages, with two illustrated pages behind a laser-cut design inspired by Japanese architecture and two pages letterpress printed with poetry. Special Collections copy is 29/50.
Title: The Wonderful Mallet
Creator: Mrs. T. H. James
Date: Meiji 32 19--?
Publisher/Press: Tokyo : T. Hasegawa
Call Number: PN989 .J3 W6
Subject: fairy tales, folklore
Description: creped paper pages, pen and ink drawings have been colored in
Title: Selections from Elegy for Ira H.: [Exit from Appalachia]
Creator: Forrest B. Johnson, Frank Brannon
Date: 2014
Publisher/Press: Dillsboro, North Carolina : SpeakEasy Press
Call Number: PS3610 .O35 S45 2014
Subject: Southern Appalachia, poetry
Description: "Forrest Johnson will present 'An Elegy for Ira H./ [Exit from Appalachia]' a letterpress printed sculpture that is a collaboration between the poet and book artist, Frank Brannon, both of whom, although a generation apart, grew up along the eastern border of Tennessee and Kentucky. While recognizable as a 'book,' this piece does not follow the normal conventions of book format. Rather, it could be interpreted that the form evolved from intimacy with the text, the subject of the text, and knowledge of each other as artists. The shape reflects both the poem's invocation of water and also each artist's departures from ideas about the Appalachian region, those held by people within and those held by people outside it. The poems, selected from an unpublished manuscript 'Elegy for Ira H./[Exit from Appalachia],' explore ideas of regional memory, landscape, ancestry and problems of representation.
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Title: The art of the fold : how to make innovative books and paper structures
Creator: Kyle, Hedi; Warchol, Ulla
Date: 2019
Publisher/Press: London : Laurence King Publishing Ltd
Call Number: TT870 .K95 2019
Subject: Paper folding, paperwork, book binding, book design, artists' books.
Description: "The renowned and influential book artist Hedi Kyle shows you step-by-step how to create her unique designs, using folding techniques. Projects include flag books, blizzard books, the fishbone fold and nesting boxes. This is a wonderful insight into the work of a truly skilled artist."
Title: Desire and the importance of failure: lo spirit della storia naturale
Creator: Shelagh Keeley
Date: 1996
Publisher/Press: Atlanta, Georgia : Nexus Press
Call Number: N7433.4 .K436 D4 1996
Subject: Atlanta, Olympic Games, poems
Description: Illustrations of transitions and containers, accompanied by a poem by Debra Esch. Produced alongside the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games.
Title: Homage to Humanity
Creator: Jimmy Nelson, Donna Karan, Mundiya Kepanga
Date: 2018
Publisher/Press: New York : Rizzoli
Call Number: Oversize GN380 .N456 2018
Subject: Indigenous peoples
Description: Acclaimed British photographer Jimmy Nelson presents his latest collection of 400 evocative photographs revealing an inclusive look at the people and cultures of over thirty iconic tribes from around the world. From the Himalayas with the Laylap in Bhutan to the last hidden outposts of Africa with the Mundari in isolated South Sudan, these tribal cultures, many which have long been hidden from the world's eyes, are documented with an intimacy and knowledge that only Nelson can conjure. This new assemblage of voyages is accompanied by insightful, engaging interviews with tribe leaders, infographics on the locations and cultures of each destination, and a new mobile application that allows readers to view; film material, behind the scenes video, storytelling, and interviews from all the journeys--inviting readers on a journey to the remotest places on earth. Before They Pass Away II celebrates each tribe's distinct aesthetic cultural heritage and is a visual document, perhaps even the last record, that reminds us and future generations of the beauty and harmony of these tribes and the purity of their way of life. This unique volume--truly an invaluable time capsule of the last surviving tribes--is an essential for travel and photography enthusiasts. Nelson's large-plate field camera captures every minute detail, vivid colour, and dramatic light to produce awe-inspiring portraits of tribal members: from head-on shots, to visual narratives documenting quotidian life, rituals, and rites of passage, and striking pictures of marvellous and sometimes harsh landscapes. Comes with supplemental VR glasses and companion phone application that allow pages to become interactive with videos corresponding to the book's photographs.
Title: Coloring book: celebrate Knoxville! Bicentennial ’91, 1791-1991
Creator: Knoxville Artist Group
Date: 1991
Publisher/Press: Knoxville, TN : Knoxville Artist Group : Goodwill Industries, Inc.
Call Number: F444.K7 C65 1991
Subject: ephemera, coloring book, Knoxville bicentennial
Description: "Drawings by Knoxville Artist Group to benefit Goodwill Industries-Knoxville, Inc."
Title: The Well wherein a Deer’s head bleeds: a play for winter solstice
Creator: Robert Kelly, Ron Loewinsohn, Diane Wakoski
Date: 1968
Publisher/Press: Los Angeles : Black Sparrow Press
Call Number: PS3521 .E4322 W44
Subject: Drama, poetry, theater
Description: Annual Christmas greeting booklets On cover: A play and two poems. "A Christmas greeting from the Black Sparrow Press."
Title: Learning to Fly
Creator: Bryan Kring
Date: 2017
Publisher/Press: Oakland, California : Bryan Kring
Call Number: N7433.4.K76 L43 2017
Subject: movable books, flight in art
Description: The box includes a viewing window, through which can be seen a color drawing of birds, the sky, the sun, and a woman. A wheel protrudes from the right-side of the box, which allows the scene to move like a movie. Learning to Fly is a moveable book. It is based loosly on my dreams of flying. When the wheel is turned a "little movie" plays inside the diorama. It has a plexiglass front window and back. When held up to the light the interior scene has beautiful backlighting that adds to the movement. On the front of the box is a statement, "once she understood how to fly, it was simple."
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Title: Flag Book: interaction towards a better world
Creator: Fernando Lopes
Date: 1996
Publisher/Press: Atlanta, Georgia : Nexus Press
Call Number: N7433.4 .L65 F45 1996
Subject: Olympics, flags, countries
Description: diagonally folded, origami-like pages with flags from the countries represented at the 1996 Olympics. The text consists in accordion style of 96 triangular pieces of flags from countries represented at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Back cover containing the term, "INTERACTION" and its equivalent in 7 additional languages.
Title: The Well wherein a Deer’s head bleeds: a play for winter solstice
Creator: Robert Kelly, Ron Loewinsohn, Diane Wakoski
Date: 1968
Publisher/Press: Los Angeles : Black Sparrow Press
Call Number: PS3521 .E4322 W44
Subject: Drama, poetry, theater
Description: Annual Christmas greeting booklets On cover: A play and two poems. "A Christmas greeting from the Black Sparrow Press."
Title: The New Colossus
Creator: Lucy Childs (artist) Emma Lazarus
Date: 2019
Publisher/Press: Lucy Childs
Call Number: N7433.4.C45 E66 2019
Subject: poems, migration
Description: Accordion book with wool cover, enclosed in a clamshell box. Cover, wool embroidered with cotton threads; interior, linen sewn with cotton threads. Open, 11 x 58 cm; folded to 11 x 17 cm. Clamshell box measures 14 cm long x by 20 cm wide by 5 cm deep with an embroidered cross on a 4 x 11 cm piece of cloth on the front.
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