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Please do making The Amichai not hesitate to contact us regarding terms and/or with any Windows, I wanted people questions or concerns. to experience this artist book not only by reading A Selection of Book Arts the poems but by lifting a and Design Bindings curtain, handling the papers, touching the blind embossment. Aside from playing with the visibility of 1. Amichai, Yehuda [poet]; Black, images in a window, I am also toying with the materiality Rick [artist]. The Amichai of the book itself. Windows. Arlington, VA: Turtle Light Press, 2017. Limited I spun my own metaphors out of Amichai's poems. I also Edition. Tight, bright, and mirrored Amichai's own process of combining images unmarred. from different places and time periods in my collages. Numbered limited edition, this These multi-layered spreads–which include letterpressed being 6 of 18 copies. Printed on poems, blind-embossed images, gold leaf, tipped-on handmade paper with deckled papers and botanicals–function like dreamscapes, thus edges, with gold leaf highlights creating additional layers of meaning. and blind embossments in some of ... the designs. The collection of In addition, you'll see a torn bit of super, the fine mesh triptychs and a 28 page guide are that helps from the spine of a book. I am using the housed in a box enclosure shaped bookmaker's material as a metaphor for the burning of like a Jerusalem window. Fine in books that occurred in Nazi Germany. I am also toying Fine Archival Box. Hardcover. (#10483) $9,500.00 here with the word itself, "super," and the idea of racial superiority. A compilation of 18 unbound triptychs and a catalogue I hope The Amichai Windows will resonate deeply for inside a double drop-spine enclosure. The work explores you." [Artist statement] love, war, and being Jewish in the 20th century. Amichai's work, often considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature, explores family, love and war. Black, having fallen in love with Amichai's poetry, spent ten years creating this remarkable work. Blending of some of Amichai’s original, handwritten poems with collaged images of Jewish history and life drawn from archives around the world. Aharon Yermiyahu Taub, in his review for the American Jewish Libraries newsletter, stated; "a towering achievement in American arts and letters, the culmination of a decade of reflection, research, translation, and artistic imagination and a breathtaking exploration of literary and visual poetics." [AJL. News, Feb/March 2018, Vol. VIII, No. 1]. Recent winner of the Isaac Anolic Jewish Book Arts Award. "Almost every aspect of The Amichai Windows is symbolic. From the simulacrum enclosure of a Jerusalem Lux Mentis, Booksellers - LuxMentis.com - [email protected] Book Arts and design bindings 2. Bradbury, Ray; Fontcuberta, books in this portfolio of work are victims of the Joan [artist]. Fahrenheit 451 flames, but they are also survivors. Despite the [Artist Book]. México: Troconi- violence they suffer, they endure, albeit with sequels Letayf & Campbell, 2020. Limited and scars. "The censorship is definitely not Edition. Tight, bright, and consummated, but the burned covers testify to the unmarred. Presentation: Walnut damage of the aggression". box container showing an original "The edition consists of a certificate of authenticity book burned by the artist, protected signed by the artist. In his new project Fahrenheit with an acrylic cover. Size: 40 x 28 451, Fontcuberta aspires to participate, from the x 11 cm frontlines of art, in Contents: 12 photographs this dissolution of numbered and signed by the artist frontiers, paying in archival quality digital print on Natural Rag Entry homage to books based on paper of 290 grams of MOAB, 100% cotton, in a size of various manifestations of 36 x 25 cm. intolerance and barbarism, 1 book with texts by the author and photos that document from a supine paradox: the text itself and the burning action, bound in cartoné “burning books which with seams for loose sheets. deal, precisely, with 1 evidence bag with the burned book ashes. 1 metal box burning books. To this end, with a USB stick that shows the action of the books I assembled as many burning. Multi-faceted work, including sculptural, copies of Bradbury’s novel photographic, digital, and printed elements. np. Illus. as I can, in a vast plurality (color plates). Numbered, limited edition of 20 copies, of different editions and signed by the artist. Fine. Mixed Media. languages, which reveal its (#10522) $7,500.00 ecumenical and popular condition”." [Publisher's "Through the Statement] Fahrenheit 451 project, Joan 3. Castrucci, Andrew Fontcuberta carries [ed]; Sandlin, David; out the symbolic Ono, Yoko; Coe, action of burning 451 Sue; Guthrie, copies of the famous Woody; et al [text novel of the same and art]. Fracktured name, in various Lives: An Urban & languages. Unlike Rural Collective. Bradbury's argument, New York: in this case, the books Bulletspace, 2021. are not totally Limited Edition. destroyed by the Tight, bright, and flames but rescued unmarred. Full before turning to embossed metal ashes. On the binding, red ink, occasion of the commemoration of the author's centenary, plywood boards, post-bound, rubber hinges. the Bradbury Year (2020), and in the words of Joan 21x24x2" [25 pounds]. 36pp of text, 65 silkscreened Fontcuberta, the current reality begins to look images. Illus. (color and b/w plates). All posters signed by dangerously like this great dystopic novel... the artists. Numbered limited edition of 50 copies. Fine in "The novel Fahrenheit 451 is the one that best indicates Fine Rubber Wrapper.. Hardcover. (#10616) $9,500.00 the inverse dependence between the culture of books and It took nearly a decade to bring this remarkable urban/ totalitarianism, a totalitarianism that is no longer a rural art project to fruition. 177 artists, writers, and distant ghost but a reality manifested by the rebirth of the fracktivists contributed between 2010 and 2020. extrema right in Europe and Spain In 'Fahrenheit 451' the Contributors are listed below but notably include: John victims are the books, which are the access routes to Fekner, Anton Van Dalen, Sue Coe, David Sandlin, Tom cultivated intelligence, knowledge and free thought. " The McGlynn, Yoko Ono, Ellen Cantarow, Alexandra Rojas, Lux Mentis, Booksellers - LuxMentis.com - [email protected] Book Arts and design bindings Mike Bernhard, POSTERS Carlo McCormick, SAM VAN DEN TILLAAR “Fracktured Lives” Woody Guthrie, ANDREW CASTRUCCI “Diagram: Rude Algae of Time” and many others. ALEXANDRA ROJAS “Protect Your Mother” HYE OK ROW “Water Life Blood” Printed at Bullet ANDREW CASTRUCCI “Empire State” Space (an anarchist CAMILO TENSI “Pipes” squatter community IGOR LANGSHTEYN “7 Deadly Sins” since 1982), a KAREN CANALES MALDONADO “Bottled Water” Lower East Side MARIO NEGRINI “This Land is Ours” workshop. The ANDREW LEE “Drill Bit” work is the result of TOM MCGLYNN “Red Earth” a tremendous TOM MCGLYNN “Mob” outpouring of work, SOFIA NEGRINI “No” talent, passion, and RENZO CASTRUCCI/A. CASTRUCCI “Mother Fucker” the willingness to ITALO ZAMBONI push for change. “There is Something Wrong...” The final line of the HOLLIS MOLONY “Tearing Our Resources” forward to Your IGOR LANGSHTEYN “Lighter” House is Mine reads, “We have taken this opportunity to SEBIT MIN “Caution” unite the following people in this collaborative project, as GABRIEL GONZALEZ “Fracktured...” a statement of ‘art as a means of resistance.’” That EUNYOUNG CHO “X Red Circle” statement continues to drive and define the work of DAEWOOK DO “NY Fracking” Bulletspace. ADAM FRATINO “No Drill-No Spill” "A majority of our politicians and elected officials no KERRY MURDOCH “Rotten Apple” longer do their appointed jobs. They don’t protect our CATALINA RODRIGUEZ “To Frack or Not to Frack” health, safety, well being or quality of life in any SAM RUSSO “Gold Water” substantial way. As engaged citizens we have to step up, MARIA RODRIQUEZ “Fracking Delicious” as the muckrakers of the early 20th century (such as Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair) exposed the excesses of the nascent oil industry and the brutish, destructive power of monopolies." [Intro] WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS SARAH FERGUSON; ANN-SARGENT WOOSTER; KATHARINE DAWSON; MIKE BERNHARD; YOKO ONO; SEAN LENNON; AKIRA OHISO; CRAIG STEVENS; MARIANNE SOISALO; TONY PINOTTI; CARLO MCCORMICK; CAROL FRENCH; TERESA WINCHESTER; GERRI KANE; TOM MCGLYNN; JEREMY WEIR ALDERSON; SANDRA STEINGRABER; ANTON VAN DALEN; ALEXANDRA ROJAS; MICHAEL CARTER; ELLEN CANTAROW; LIZ ALDERSON; CARL WATSON; ANDREW CASTRUCCI; WALTER GURBO; THOMAS GRAY; BEN GONZALEZ; CAROLINE TISDALL; ANDREW LEE; FRANK MORALES; ANNIE LENIHAN; KEN FOGERTY; ANDREA LISCA; AMY CLAMPITT; VIC WESTGATE; PETER APANEL; MARY TWITCHELL; WOODY GUTHRIE; MARY JO LONG;