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The Book Arts Web
- Gateway to information on all aspects of the arts of the book. Hundreds of well-vetted links lead to artists' Web sites, materials and equipment suppliers, study opportunities, tutorials, bibliographies, conservation information, etc. Also home of the Book_Arts-L listserv and a searchable archive accessible to non-subscribers.
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The Center for Book Arts
- New York City non-profit workshop and exhibition center with classes in "bookbinding, letterpress printing, paper marbling, typography, and related fields." In-progress digital archive documents CBA's 29-year exhibition history.
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Nexus Press
- Publisher/distributor of artists' books, and affiliate of the Atlanta (GA) Contemporary Art Center. Online catalog of Nexus publications includes photograph, physical description and synopsis of each book.
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Printed Matter, Inc.
- "The world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of publications made by artists." Librarian-designed online catalog of 15,000 titles is fully searchable by book type, binding, process, subject and several other descriptors. Exceptional resource, invaluable for understanding current state of the genre.
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Umbrella
- Online selections from Umbrella, venerable artists' books journal edited by Judith Hoffberg.
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Visual Studies Workshop
- Education, exhibition, publishing and research center for media--or visual--studies, a major component of which is the artists' book medium.
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Women's Studio Workshop
- The "largest publisher of hand printed, hand bound artist's books in the country." Web site includes digital archive searchable by printing process.
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Book Arts Gallery of The Book Arts Web
- Selective group of links to online exhibitions from libraries, museums, guilds, individual artists, book arts centers, universities and publishers. International in scope.
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"The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art"
- Installation and catalog photographs from an exhibition organized by the special collections librarian of the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Fictitious Texts, 1992-1996: Book Sculptures by David Laufer
- Photographs and essays from an exhibition of book works held at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Kiki Smith: Prints, Books & Things
- A contemporary artist's "printed art"--including books--presented in an interactive Web site. From the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Otis College of Art and Design, Artists' Book Image Database
- A database rather than an exhibition, but just as inspirational in the way it enables virtual page-by-page examination of the structure and content of a selection of artists' books in Otis' collection.
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Science and the Artists' Book
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries' "Science and the Artist's Book is an exhibition which explores links between scientific and artistic creativity through the book format."
Artists' books in libraries
