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  • Collection: UWM Book Arts

Lonesome Rows

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"Printed from three birch plywood blocks. The papers are Somerset Velvet and Somerset Book, the types are Garamond 156 ... . The woodcut blocks were run many times in the reduction technique to develop the layered surfaces. The book was designed,…

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Mayflies of the Driftless Region

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"400 copies printed on Zerkall paper by Gaylord Schanilec. A special edition of fifty copies is bound in full calf by Jill Jevne, and contained in a slipcase of her design ... A limited edition of 300 copies is bound in quarter goat by Gregor…

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The Nameless Dead

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"The pictures for this book were taken in Khiva and Bukhara, Uzbekistan in 2000 ... The typefaces were designed specifically for this book and consist of a sans serif captioning face, a serifed text face, an italic, small caps, and [Kirillit︠s︡a].…

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Necropolis

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"Digitally and manually manipulated photographs taken in the Necropolis of Buenos Aires in January 2005"--Colophon.

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The Other Place

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"Limited edition portfolio of 16 prints by American artist Bob Erickson and Northern Irish artist Keith Wilson with a poem by William Lawlor. Each artist made images that explore and investigate the natural environment in and around the other's home.…

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Pantheon

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"Pantheon" applies the names of Greek Gods to individual people in a found panoramic photograph. The heads of people through cut-out windows as star images of gods and muses. The book includes an additional copy of the panorama without the names in…

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Paradise Lost

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"Paradise Lost is about nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands conducted by the US in the 40's and 50's. It focuses on the first two explosions on Bikini Atoll in 1946. The Bikinians were told that testing the bomb was essential to prevent future…

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Pastimes

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"The following images are derived from episodic memories that relate to growing up in rural Wisconsin."--T.p. verso.

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Paszport : Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa

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"Paszport presents and re-presents Beata Wehr's nomadic life, encapsulating and juxtaposing her travels in time and distance. A presumably unchanging fingerprint is background and foreground to a stamp that shouts 'Alien' and a series of photographs…

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Place of the Long River

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Bound in blue cloth streaked with peach threads ; small woodcut on paper attached to front board ; tail edges deckled ; "The type is Garamond 156 (an English Monotype cutting) in Roman and Italic, in sizes ranging from 12-48 point. The images were…

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