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Artists' Books

If you enjoy this sampling of artists' books from around the world, Smithsonian Libraries introduction to artists' books will help you delve into this dynamic art form.

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Freedom

Fenway Park [Laura Davidson]

Plinitude [M.L. Van Nice]

O livro dos seres imaginários Amir Brito Cadôr ; [projeto gráfico, Amir Brito Cadôr e Daniela Maura]

Glimpse Barbara Tetenbaum & Julie Chen

World without end by Julie Chen

Les sept dormants sept livres en hommage aux 7 moines de Tibhirine [gravures,] Rachid Koraïchi ; [textes,] John Berger,Michel Butor, Hélène Cixous, Sylvie Germain, Nancy Huston, Alberto Manguel et Leila Sebbar

Storm sequence by Alisa C. Banks

Dolls of Africa Freya Diamond

Seeing

Egyptian green views from Egypt with the writing of Amelia Edwards, Herodotus, Catullus, ancient coffin texts & various other descriptions arranged with prints by Susan Allix

Patterns

Listen, listen Adadam Agofomma : honoring the legacy of Koo Nimo

Dictionary of water Roni Horn

[2,3] Tauba Auerbach

Gifts from our elders by Kerry McAleer-Keeler

The artist Nani Croze in Africa

Janet Cardiff the Walk book Janet Cardiff; by Mirjam Schaub; edited by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, in collaboration with Public Art Fund, New York

Smoke in my dreams a book by Mark Wagner

Slurring at bottom a printer's book of errors Robin Price [and] Emily K. Larned

Leporello ein Buch illustriert und bebildert von Werner Huppertz und Elmar Heimbach ; mit einigen Texten von Lorenzo da Ponte

Hansel & Gretel a shadow theatre book Virginia Flynn ; design and concept by Joe Freedman

Desire in representation [Peggy Buth]

Colored people [photography by Blake J. Nolan]

An African folktale with blind intaglio & screen prints by Willow Legge

Elektromagnetism [by Philip Zimmermann]

Nadimé approche du derviche-tourneur en dix lithographies par Toufik Berramdane ; texte de Frédéric Brandon

The stars Vija Celmins ; Eliot Weinberger

Elements of geometry by Euclid by Sjoerd Hofstra

Gold rush a multi-page serigraph by Jill Timm

A hypothetical analysis of the twinkle in stars (as told by a child to a teacher)

Tunisia

Sonorous figures by Laurie Sieverts Snyder, 1994 ; in response to E.F.F. Chladni, Entdeckungen über die Theorie des Klanges, 1787

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