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The much-mythologized Indigenous woman takes control of her own narrative in this “formally inventive, historically eye-opening novel” (The New York Times). In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby’s cry. Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting unsparing lig...
"A record of the third biennial Codex International Book Fair and Symposium: "The Fate of the art," held at Berkeley, California, 2011"--Book cover.
Number two of the CODE(X) Monograph Series. Includes several essays and notebook entries by Peter Koch related to the craft of making books.This book was designed and printed in an edition of 500 copies on a Heidelberg cylinder press by Peter Koch assisted by Jonathan Gerken for the CODEX Foundation. The cover was printed from antique wood and metal types in the Koch collection.
Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition of Goldyne's work on display in Stanford's Green Library September 14, 2015 through January 31, 2016.
Book art object is a record of the first biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium: The Fate of the Art,Berkeley, California, 2007. The event showcased contemporary artist books and fine press and fine art editions produced by some of the worlds most esteemed printers, designers, book artists, and artisans.The book includes transcripts of the following lectures: Sarah Bodman, Research Fellow, Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol: The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists publishing in the UK; Robert Bringhurst, poet, translator, and typographer: Spiritual geometry: the book as a work of art; and Felipe Ehrenberg, artist, Mexican diplomat, former publisher of the Beau Geste Press, London: Cutting and pasting: metaphor of life. The volume is superbly illustrated in full color throughout.
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"A fascinating and valuable insight into the fast-changing worlds of the bibliophile." -John Lewis
What does it mean to be documented or undocumented? How do these terms work across borders and boundaries, languages and nations? These are the questions fueling the experimental artwork-in-a-box, Documentado/Undocumented, a book art piece that explores the intersection of printmaking, typography, performance, video, sound art, and installation. In its traveling exhibition, a finely crafted aluminum traveling case is on display, opening into a tri-partite mirrored vanity containing a playful kit of objects, inviting the participant into an intimate space of engagement and transformation. Illuminated buttons trigger layers of audio, and a set of instructions invites the viewer to "Reimagine y...
Lillie Coit and her mother, Martha Hitchcock, were hostesses of Larkmead's bohemian salon in California's Napa Valley, where distinguished guests whiled away the hours with singing, dancing, and reading poetry under the stars. "A Salon at Larkmead", Martha's never-before-published diaries, chronicles this dazzling life of leisure in Napa Valley at the moment of the region's transition from wilderness to garden.