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About
Book Art
- Book
Arts Web
features an extensive list of links to sites related to book
art. Also sponsors a listserv with approximately 1200 members
and an on-line gallery.
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Colophon Page serves the community involved in modern
illustrated and fine press
books.
Book Art Collections
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ArtistBookArchive.com
features a large database of artist's books from their archives.
The Artist Book Archive also lends books for exhibitions.
- Arts
of the Book Collection at Yale Library is a non-circulating
collection that includes examples of and material relating
to the book and its attendant arts: binding, typography,
illustration, book design, paper making, and the history
of the book.
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Independent Press Archive at the Visual Studies Workshop is
located in New York City and houses over 5,000 artist's
books.
- The
Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University houses
over 6,000 items including artist's books, fine press books,
miniature books, children's books, movable books and ephemera.
- Joan
Flasch artist's Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago houses over 3,000 artist's books, serials,
and reference materials.
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Museum
of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace/Artist Book Collection houses
the world's largest collection of artist's books. Franklin
Furnace's international collection of contemporary artist's
books was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art's Library
Collection in 1993. Over 7,700 artist's books are included
in MOMA Library's searchable database, DADABASE.
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National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center
houses a book art collection with over 650 items and sponsors
an annual Books As Art exhibition series.
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Otis College of Art and Design artist's Book Collection includes
over 3,000 items primarily from the 1960's to the present.
Located in Los Angeles.
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The
Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry is located
in Miami Beach and houses over 8,000 items. Their holdings
include books, manuscripts, artwork, periodicals, and ephemera
associated with the movements of Italian Futurism, Russian
and Eastern European Avant Garde, Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus,
De Stijl, Ultra, Tabu-Dada, Lettrisme, Ultra-Lettrisme,
etc.
- Wellesley College Book Arts Collection devoted to the
history and art of the book. Their collection includes
a wide range of books on book production as well as fine
press and artist's books.
Centers for Book Arts and Educational Programs
- Booklyn
Artists' Alliance is a non-profit organization that assists
artists in publishing, exhibiting, and distributing artist's books.
Offers educational programs to the public and collection development
services to institutions. Located in Brooklyn, New York
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Center
for Book Arts is a non-profit organization that produces
artist's books and offers classes, residency programs, and
exhibitions. Located in Manhattan.
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Cincinnati
Book Arts Society is a non-profit organization promoting
the book arts through educational programs, exhibitions,
and publications.
- Columbia
College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts offers
a Master of Fine Arts program in Interdisciplinary Book
and Paper
Arts.
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Minnesota Center for Book Arts promotes
contemporary book arts through educational programs, exhibitions,
and an artist's residency program. The center also has a
library
and archive that houses books, broadsides, and other materials
produced
by the center; reference materials on book-making; and a slide
library
of artist's books.
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Pyramid Atlantic offers classes, exhibitions, and residencies
for print, paper, and
book arts. Located in Silver Springs, MD, Pyramid Atlantic
also
sells and publishes work and sponsors an annual book fair.
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University
of Alabama offers a Master of Fine Arts Program in the
Book Arts.
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University of the Arts is located in Philadelphia, PA
and offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in
printmaking/book arts.
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University
of Iowa Center for the Book supports
the study of the book in culture, the use of the book as a
source of artifactual evidence in scholarly research, and
the creative production of new fine press and artist's books.
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Visual Studies Workshop offers residencies, internships,
and an M.F.A. with an emphasis
in visual books. Also houses the Independent Press Archive
with
over 5,000 books.
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Women's
Studio Workshop is
a non-profit organization located in Rosendale, N.Y. that
has been publishing artist's books since 1979. The Women's
Studio Workshop offers educational programs, internships,
a residency program, and various grants.
Dealers
and Presses
- Arcana
Books
specializes in rare and out-of-print books on twentieth century
art, architecture, and design.
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Bookstorming.com sells
contemporary art publications, editions, and artist's books.
Based in Paris.
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Vamp
and Tramp
Books is
a distributor of fine press, letterpress editions, and artist's
books. Represents over 300 privately operated presses across
the United States.
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D.A.P.
Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. sells
books, special editions, and rare publications from publishers
and
museums around the world.
- Dia
Art Foundation Bookshop publishes
and sells books and multi-media sources on contemporary art
and
architecture. Their selection includes in and out-of-print
artist's
books.
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Evil
Twin Publications is
a private press run by identical twins, Amber Gayle and Stacy
Wakefield.
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Granary Books publishes
and sells contemporary poetry and artist's books.
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Nexus
Press has
been producing and publishing artist's books for over twenty-two
years.
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PABA
Gallery specializes
in contemporary photography and book arts. Based in New Haven,
CT.
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Printed Matter is the world's largest non-profit organization
dedicated to the
promotion of publications made by artists in a book-like format.
Miscellaneous
- Art*o*mat
is
an original art-vending project based in Winston-Salem, NC.
Created in 1997, Art*o*mat machines are retired cigarette vending
machines that have been converted to vend art. Currently, there
are 71 ACTIVE MACHINES in museums and various locations throughout
the country.
- Books2Eat:
The International Edible Book Festival is
a yearly event that takes place on April 1. Organizations
and groups around the world are invited to participate.
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Movable Book Society is
a forum for collectors and enthusiasts of pop-up and movable
books.
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Pop Goes the Page is
is an online exhibit on movable and mechanical books from
the Brenda Forman Collection housed in Special Collections
at the University of Virginia.
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