Exhibition catalog for "Multiple, Limited, Unique : selections from the permanent collection of the Center for Book Arts"

Identifier:AAR.EC.0195

Dimensions:144 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Copyright dates:2011

created by: Alexander Campos, Center for Book Arts

Description:Exhibition Catalogue for show on view July 6 - September 10, 2011. The exhibition offers an overview of the history and development of book arts over the past 40 years, and examines the role of the institution in both nurturing and promoting innovative artists and preserving traditional artistic practices. All works in the exhibition can also be viewed through the CBA online collections database. CBA has two copies.

Organized by Alexander Campos, Executive Director, Jen Larson, Collections Specialist, and the Collections Committee. This exhibition marks the culmination of the three-year Collections Initiative, which involved the in-depth cataloguing and preservation of our extensive collection of artist books, prints, catalogues, and ephemera.

Includes image plates, A-Z inventory, writer's biographies.

The exhibition traveled to the Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 6 - Dec. 9, 2011; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 3 - May 6, 2012, Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX, May 31 - Aug. 25, 2012; Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 2012; The Book Club of California, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 21 - Apr. 15, 2013.

Contents:
Center for Book Arts collections initiative and online digital catalogue / Jen Larson
Artists' books and conceptualism(s) / Johanna Drucker
The (r)evolutionary democratic multiple / Tony White
Broadsides / Nina Schneider
Tradition and innovation in the digital age / Amanda Stevenson
Reading visually/visually reading / Alexander Campos
Residency snapshot: a contemporary outlook for the future of book arts / Erin Riley-Lopez

Artists included are: Shana Agid, Rosaire Appel, Tomie Arai, Eileen Arnow-Levine, Dennis Ashbaugh/ Kevin Begos/ William Gibson/ Karl Foulkes/ Peter Pettingill, Lynne Avadenka, Bryan Baker, Delphi Basilicato, Barton Lidice Benes, Doug Beube, Karl Beveridge, Michael and Winifred Bixler, Helen M. Brunner, Julie Chen and Clifton Meador, Deborah Chodoff, Carole Conde, Ana Cordeiro, Beatrice Coron, Maureen Cummins, Guy Davenport and Barry Magid, Donna Maria de Creeft, Sylvia de Swaan, Sue Donym and Marie Guise, Nicolas Dumit Estevez, Dikko Faust, Ann Fessler, Ellie Ga, Chitra Ganesh, Anne Gilman, Kathe Gregory, Roni Gross, Joshua Harris, Pablo Helguera, Barbara Henry, Candace Hicks, Ellen Holtzblatt, Wennie Huang, Gautam Kansara, Matt Knannlein, Kumi Korf, Carole P. Kunstadt, Hedi Kyle, Suzanne Lacy, Guy Laramee, Edna Lazaron, Warren Lehrer, Catarina Leitao, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, Nancy Loeber, Hilary Lorenz, Margot Lovejoy, Isabelle Lumpkin, Mikhail Magaril, Russell Maret, Franco Marinai, Barbara Mauriello, Scott McCarney, Jean McGarry, Amber McMillan, Susan Mills, Richard Minsky, Tadashi Mitsui, Roni Mocan, Ivan Monforte, Carlos Motta, Mark Murray/Caliban Press, Rick Myers, Bruce Nauman, Shervone Neckles, Janis Rudolfs Nedela, Heidi Neilson and Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicholls, Sarah Paul Ocampo/ Rachel LaRue Kessler/ Sierra Nelson, Alfonso Ossorio, Shani Peters, Michalis Pichler, Catya Plate, Sarah Plimpton, Fa Poonvoralak, Lilliana Porter, James Prez, Robin Price, John Randle, Gary Richman, Benjamin D. Rinehart, John L. Risseeuw, Martha Rosler, John Ross, A.S.C. Rower, Ed Ruscha, Marian St. Laurent, Peter Schell, Norman Shapiro, Zoe Sheehan-Saldana, Masumi Shibata, George K. Shortess, Robbin Ami Silverberg, SKART, Skuta, Karina Skvirsky, Kiki Smith, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Tattfoo Tan, Barbara Tetenbaum, Danny Tisdale, Juana Valdes, Claire van Vliet, John Frederick Walker, James Walsh, Marshall Weber, Cory Wheelock, Michael Winkler, Sam Winston, Simon Woolham, Paul Woodbine, Shanna Yarbrough, Ewa Monika Zebrowski, Paul Zelevansky, and Marilyn Zornado.