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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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No be today story o! [Otobong Nkanga]

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

Yoko Ono Odyssey of a cockroach

Storm sequence by Alisa C. Banks

Take me to your leader [Daniel Halter]

Dolls of Africa Freya Diamond

Negative space Mungo Thomson ; [a cura di Alessandro Rabottini]

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

The green ray and other suns Tacita Dean

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

A short story Julião Sarmento

Sleepless nights Oliver Herring

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

Two or three things I imagine about them Alfredo Jaar

Desire in representation [Peggy Buth]

Estancias Javier Pérez

Colored people [photography by Blake J. Nolan]

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

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