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Journal of Artists Books (JAB)

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The Journal of Artists' Books (JAB) engages with the field of artists' books by means of book arts, artists' books, poetry, photography, experimental literature, printmaking, graphic design, and other book-related creative endeavors. Click here to purchase the current issue, find out more about individual and institutional subscriptions, and to view back issues.

 

 

 

 


Exhibition Catalogs

The Center for Book and Paper Arts publishes a full-length catalog for each curated exhibition.


DRUCKWORKS:
Forty Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker

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© 2012
Exhibition catalog with Essays by Marjorie Perloff,
Charles Bernstein, and others; full color; 168 pages

Price: $35



From A to Z: 
OUR AN (Collective Specifics) an im partial bibliography 

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© 2012, 64 PAGES
Facsimile reproduction of a classic, long out-of-print artIST's book from 1977,
on the occasion of the CBPA exhibition DruckWorks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker.

Price: $25


Material Assumptions:
Paper as Dialogue

MASSUMPTIONS

© 2011
IntroductionS  BY MELISSA POTTER, JESSICA COCHRAN, KATHLEEN FLYNN; ESSAYS BY HANNAH KING, ELIZABETH ISAKSON-DADO AND C. J. MACE
56 pages
 
Price: $20, or download the Free pdf here.

Wood Type, Evolved: 
Letterpress & Relief Printing in the Twenty-First Century

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© 2011
Introduction by april Sheridan and nick sherman
Price: $5

The World As Text

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© 2011

Essays by dan wang and john preus. introduction by Jessica Cochran.
Price: $13


Mano/Mundo/Corazón:
Artists Interpret La Lotería

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© 2011
Essays by Jessica Cochran and Illan Stavans; full color, paperback; 85 pages
PRiCE: $25

Marilyn Sward:
Speaking in Paper

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© 2010
ESSAYS BY JEFF ABELL, TOM BANNISTER, AUDREY NIFFENEGGER, PAMELA PAULSRUD, AND STEVE WOODALL;
FULL COLOR, PAPERBACK; 84 PAGES
PRICE: $25


Laura Anderson Barbata:
Among Tender Roots

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© 2011
Essays by Melissa Potter and Guillermo Santamarina; full color, paperback
43 pages
Price: $15


Pearl of the Snowlands:
Buddhist Prints from the Derge Parkhang
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© 2009
Foreward by Tsewang Jirme; Essay by Patrick Dowdey, Curator of the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University;
Full color, Paperback; 152 pages
Price: $40

Publications and Editions: Epicenter

The Center for Book and Paper Arts is committed to a growing publications program.This publishing arm, epicenter, focuses on the production of fine press books, artists books, paper art, artists multiples, and ephemera. Epicenter is also devoted to producing unusual trade books and printed matter in large editions suitable for mass distribution. These projects are created primarily on the premises of the Center, by Center artists and artists-in-residence. 
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Afrosurreal Manifesto: Black is the New Black
A Twenty-First Century Manifesto by D. Scot Miller
Produced at CBPA in Winter of 2012-2013.
DESIGNED by Ben Blount.
Interior Pages offset printed by Daniel Mellis and Clif Meador.
Cover letterpress printed by Krista Franklin, April Sheridan, and daniel mellis. 
Hand bound by Krista Franklin, April Sheridan, Alex borgen.
Published on the occasion of the 2013 exhibition "marvelous freedon/Vigilance of Desire, revisited," Curated bY Alexandria Eregbu
at Columbia College Chicago's A+D gallery



Lerner Book

The Dark Threw Patches Down Upon Me Also

By Ben Lerner
Designed, printed and bound by Book and Paper MFA students under the direction of Inge Bruggeman;
second in a series of literary publications guest edited by Don Share; 2011; letterpress, edition of 90
PRICE: $50
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Four Monologues, Aram Saroyan
Letterpress, 2011. In collaboration with Don Share, Senior Editor, Poetry Magazine
Designed, printed and bound by Book and Paper MFA students under the direction of Clifton Meador; Price: $40

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Mano/Mundo/Corazon, Don Colley
Chicago-based artist Don Colley created this limited edition print at Anchor Graphics,
on the occasion of
Mano/Mundo/Corazón: Artists Interpret La Lotería.
Hand-Colored Lithograph, 2010 | Edition of 20
Price: $500


Pandora's Box

Pandora's box
Various Artists  

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A limited-edition box of original prints, featuring work by:
Brandy Agerback
Sally Alatalo
Pamela Barrie
Ken Botnick
Denise Carbone
Cave Papers
John Center
Martha Chiplis
Beatrice Coron
Melissa Jay Craig
Elsi Vassdal Ellis
Gordon Fluke
Helen Frederick
Hatch Show Print
Caren Heft
Michael Hernandez De Luna
Dennis Ichiyama
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
Mary N. Kennedy
Peter Kruty
Kathy Kuehn
Mary Laird
Thomas Leech
Eric May
Bert Menco
Hugh Merrill
Catherine Michaelis
Steve Miller
Audrey Niffenegger
Bonnie O’ Connell
Elizabeth Ockwell
Andrea Peterson
Robin Price
John Rininger
Jay Ryan
Kerri Sancomb
Cathie Ruggie-Saunders
Thomas Shirley
Jessica Spring
Marilyn Sward
Barbara Tetenbaum
Michael Thompson
Claire Van Vliet
Eileen Wallace
Marshall Weber
Maggie Weiss
Paul Wong
Yee-Haw Industries
Jennifer Yorke

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