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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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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

Storm sequence by Alisa C. Banks

Dolls of Africa Freya Diamond

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

The artist Nani Croze in Africa

Smoke in my dreams a book by Mark Wagner

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

David Ireland in Switzerland [text by Marie-Louise Lienhard]

Two or three things I imagine about them Alfredo Jaar

Estancias Javier Pérez

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

Elements of geometry by Euclid by Sjoerd Hofstra

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

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

Pinwheel pulsar

Visible invisible

Face value old heads in modern masks : a visual, archaeological and historical reading of the Lydenburg heads edited by Malcolm Payne ; fourteen original hand-printed monochrome etchings and seven original hand-printed etched renderings of the Mafikeng heads by Malcolm Payne ; essays by Patricia Davison, Martin Hall, Malcolm Payne

GIF 2 [edited by Mark Attwood, Joachim Schönfeldt and Robert Weinek]

Bird wing & plain planes by John Wood, 1994 ; in wonder of Orville & Wilbur Wright and their early experiments in glider flight, 1902

Sunrise & sunset at Praiano Sol Lewitt

Unhinged Sam Taylor-Wood

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