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Book Arts Collection

A guide to discovering artists' books in the Book Arts Collection at Hill Memorial Library.

Pop-Up Books

Book held open to show a drawing of a face. An alternate view shows the book slightly closed and the image appears as half-drawing and half-photo of a child's' face.

Vision Shifts

Barton, Carol. Vision Shifts. [Glen Echo, Md.?: Popular Kinetics Press], 1998.
BD373 .B37 1998, Rare

Photographically illustrated cover sheets with letterpress and cut-out widows. An ironic change in the backing photographs, set-up by the narrative letterpress, is revealed as each page is opened further

View this book in motion: https://youtu.be/dcjzFzcb4vU

Large centerfold pop-up showing tumbling rock-like shapes.

Panorama

Chen, Julie. Panorama. Berkeley, Calif.: Flying Fish Press, 2008.
N7433.4 .C436 P36 2008 FLAT, McIlhenny Natural History Collection

"Panorama explores the issue of climate change from an artist’s perspective, simultaneously expressing hope and helplessness in the face of this growing crisis. Opening to a full width of 5 feet, Panorama engulfs the reader/viewer in an experience both moving and surprising with large format pop-ups and interactive folded sections that interlace personal thought with aspects of a more universal reality." --Artist's website

 

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