#book arts
Child’s autolinked writing-drawing.
From the table of contents of Forget Me Not: A Gift for Sabbath School Children by Amanda M. Corey Edmond (1852). Original from Princeton University.
Digitized February 15, 2008.
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Football drawing or tracing.
From the back matter of Football and How to Watch It by Percy Duncan Haughton (1922). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 29, 2007.
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Marbled endpapers, with black-and-red optimization glitch.
From the back matter of A Select Collection of the Best Modern English Plays, v.4 (1750). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized September 28, 2011.
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Illustrations left folded.
ThroughoutAnnual Report of the Buffalo Park Commissioners (1871). Original from Harvard University. Digitized March 7, 2007.
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Emily Dickinson’s herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of science and poetry.
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The Belly of the Beast. 2017
The whole book work is coloured black entirely by hand, save for a single drawing. Inspired by Perrault’s version of “Little Red Riding-Hood,” in which the young heroine is not saved by the woodcutter and instead dies inside the wolf. The cut-outs mimic a ‘stomach’ in which the figure will lie when the book is closed, trapped in darkness.
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We are always thrilled when new students discover our Special Collections!
Pictured above, MICA freshman Wyatt Mitchell set up our tables so he could view some of our Japanese Scrolls from our Special Collections.
The scrolls are:
Scroll of Heiji Monogatari Emaki (ND1043.4.S27 Cage).
Scroll of Shigisan Engi(ND1043.4.S27 Cage).
Scroll of the Frolic King Animals: Choju Giga (ND1043.4.S27 Cage).
Want to see something from our special collections? Ask a librarian to grab it for you!
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Mathias Schmied’s Unique Art Made From Comic Books
Born in Switzerland, Mathias Schmied manipulates comic books and magazine images to create wall installations, collages and drawings. His works are pop images transformed. Cut-out graffiti and superheroes take on all new representation and meaning through Schmied’s cautious hand and razor blade. The easily recognizable content of Schmied’s found images becomes confused through his dissection. Pages where all real content has been removed feel empty and even somewhat sad. Depicting only what’s left behind from superhero stories feels like the newspaper without the news. We can only begin to guess at what’s going on.
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Miles from any classroom, in the middle of Northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, Dana Albany, a “book sculptor,” creates a massive sculpture of the human body. It is composed of out-of-date textbooks and discarded library books. She names this giant figure: Body of Knowledge. It is burned to the ground. No one objects.
BODY of KNOWLEDGE by Dana Albany
BURNING MAN 2000, Black Rock Desert, northern NEVADA, USA
photo credit: “Scott Beale / Laughing Squid”
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“Lost Woods” Handmade Accordion Style Book
I made this back in 2015 and I never got around to taking good photos of it!
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The Art of Love, 1839, with gold stamping on a ribbon embossed cloth binding; fromThe Library Company of Philadelphia.
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“Patriotismis a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.” - Richard Aldington
From our Artists’ Book Collection,A Primer for Democracy (N7433.4 .N673 P76 2004 Cage).
To see anything in our special collections, ask a reference librarian.
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an original offset printed book about why the bees are so important to life on Earth. find it at my new online store: http://thoughtgarden.storenvy.com/
