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After is about the life of the book in the digital age and the transitory nature of all things. It is structured into two sections. The first section features photos of ghostly afterimages left behind on the glassine sheets protecting plates in a 1929 art history catalog. The real world intrudes at the end of the first section when a thumb appears in the image. As the reader flips to the second side of the dos-a-dos, the imagery pivots to include afterimages of different kinds from the outside world. The text in the book is a blackout poem using a sequence of poems by 15th-century Japanese Zen monk Ikkyu as the source text. The original sequence - titled Skeletons - is an extended exploration of the same transitory theme as After.

"The Movable Book Society's 25th anniversary folio collection highlights the unique aspect of 'toy and movable books' and places a spotlight on the often overlooked paper engineer as opposed to the traditional author and illustrator"--Booklet, unnumbered page 2.

DisConnect, an appropriated Connect Four set, juxtaposes in its playing pieces language from the United States legal code with the words of detained children and parents.

"Light Blue Desire: A Manual For the Color Blue is an artist book mapping the amorphous definitions and uses of blue across languages. Gathering idioms from around the world the manual acts as a compendium of contradictions and concepts around a color that is high and low, peaceful and pornographic, melancholic and manipulative, and consistently voted the world's favorite color. How and why does blue seep into our speech, color our thoughts, lap into language? In attempting to define a color, a concept built out of perception, we begin to let slip our interior selves"--Author's Web site, viewed January 3, 2019.

"Put it in a Letter forms were originally set & printed in the Fall of 2015 to cope with the declining health of my late husband. They were built again in the Summer of 2018 for this edition of 100, 15 of which are hand-colored in pencil to resemble the 2015 prints.The sleeve and covers are Neenah Environment. The interior pages are Mohawk Superfine."--Colophon.

"What happened, reader, where you are? What happens there today? asks the artists' book Site. Inspired by her discovery of a slave auction block on the first morning in her new town of Charlottesville, VA, Lyall Harris grapples with US history in a project where content is revealed and supported through its material components. With assistance from papermaker Dieu Donné, Harris created a watermark broadside, the key component of an artists' book that both points to the past and brings the reader into an awareness of present"--Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers website.

"Conceived as part of Dr. Laura Browder's and Dr. Patricia Herrera's Documenting a historic Black high school course at the University of Richmond in the spring of 2018. The linoleum block print on the title page was designed and carved by Barry Coker. The book was designed by Jen Thomas, Book Arts Studio Coordinator.... Printed in an edition of 28"--Colophon.

"This book is made of two parts: the first is based on statistical data, generally on global samples. Pages are from 1 to 32. The second is based on surveys of reported data (perceptions, sensations, beliefs. Pages are from a to w [that is, a to v] You can read the two sections separately, or you can use the index to find links between the two. Choose you subject, match the numbers and letters, and then overlap the pages."--Page [1] "Frequently, the debate regarding gender equality becomes a clash of opinions, impeding any real inquiry. In The Veil is Seen Only When it is Lifted, the artist provides accumulated data as an instrument for breaching this impasse. Origoni visually restructures this conversation, arranging statistics with simple, playful design and breaking up the codex's linear narration. The book is composed with two studies; their bindings fall on opposite sides of the book. A Coptic-bound section presents quantitative data and the spiral-bound section reports experience-based data. Viewers are invited to read these parts separately or simultaneously, pages can be overlapped in patterns that unveil new information." -- https://wsworkshop.org/collection/veil-seen-lifted/ (viewed June 7, 2018)

"Artist book with hand-colored intaglio and letterpress. 2018. The witch is inside of me upends the nefariousness attributed to curiosity, sexuality, and disobedience in females and imbues the characters who raised me with power by embracing the corruptible, dual-faced nature within all of us"--Accompanying sheet.