The JAB Anthology
The JAB Anthology

Author: Johanna Drucker

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2023-10-17

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1609389166

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This anthology of articles selected from The Journal of Artists’ Books contains some of the best critical writing on artists’ books produced in the last quarter of a century. Driven by the editorial vision of artist Brad Freeman, JAB began as a provocative pamphlet and expanded to become a significant journal documenting artists’ books from multiple perspectives. With its range of participants and approaches, JAB provided a unique venue for sustained critical writing in the field and developed a broad subscriber base among institutional and private collectors and readers. More than two hundred writers and artists from nearly two dozen countries around the globe were published in its pages. The JAB Anthology contains contributions by many renowned figures in the field including: Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Janet Zweig, Monica Carroll, Adam Dickerson, Alisa Scudamore, Mary Jo Pauly, April Sheridan, Doro Boehme, Gerrit Jan de Rook, Océane Delleaux, Brandon Graham, Jérôme Dupeyrat, Ward Tietz, Paulo Silveira, Philip Cabau, Leszek Brogowski, Lyn Ashby, Tim Mosely, Debra Parr, Pedro Moura, Levi Sherman, Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso, Isabel Baraona, and the editors.

How Winter Began
How Winter Began

Author: Joy Castro

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0803284799

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Iréne gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging onto the bank. A young boy tries to befriend the reticent younger sister of the town's cruelest bully, only to discover the family betrayal behind her quiet countenance. Josefa, a young bride, is executed for murdering the man who raped her. Joy Castro's How Winter Began traces these and other characters as they seek compassion from each other and themselves. Thematically linked by the lives of women, especially Latinas, and their experiences of poverty and violence in a white-dominated, wealth-obsessed culture, How Winter Began is a delicately wrought collection of stories. The question at the heart of this riveting book is how or whether to trust one another after the rupture of betrayal.

The Roots of Cane
The Roots of Cane

Author: John K. Young

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2024-08-23

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1609389662

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The Roots of Cane proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer’s Cane. Rather than focusing on the form of the book published by Boni and Liveright, what Toomer would later call a single textual “organism,” John Young traces the many pieces of Cane that were dispersed across multiple modernist magazines from 1922 through 1923. These periodicals ranged from primarily political monthlies to avant-garde arts journals to regional magazines with transnational aspirations. Young interweaves a periodical-studies approach to modernism with book history and critical race theory, resituating Toomer’s uneasy place within Black modernism by asking how original readers would have encountered his work. The different contexts in which those audiences were engaging with Toomer’s portraits of racialized identity in the Jim Crow United States, yield often surprising results.

H.F. Henderson: Understanding Molecular Typography
H.F. Henderson: Understanding Molecular Typography

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-08

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781946433305

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Artist book by Woody Leslie that is a fictional textbook about the fictional science of molecular typography. Molecular typography is the study of the chemical and physical underpinnings of letters - letters are molecules composed of atomic building blocks known as typtoms. The book is designed as a field guide for the layman with scientific explanations and detailed character diagrams for all letters.

Pandemocratic Apocalypse
Pandemocratic Apocalypse

Author: Scar Honig Stigr

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-31

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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An ex pro huntress and her redneck friend survive and thrive after an apocalypse destroys America. Caused by a faulty vaccine? Satire, humor, redneck skullduggery, revenge and just having fun surviving after the world has ended. If you can find the author he will share a beer with you at his campfire where he will sign the book, or help you burn it depending on how you feel about it. Zombie like LIBs, revenge and conservative redneck commentary throughout.