Artist Books
Portfolios, suites and artist books have as their only commonality that the artist conceived of a group of prints meant to be shown and kept together. They can offer the intimate experience of a book illustrated with original works by one artist, or combine the works of multiple artists in a portfolio exploring a specific theme. Artist books can challenge the conventional format of what is normally considered a "book", becoming a sculpture or constructed work of art in themselves.
By: Art Hazelwood
This continuous image book is made up of 10 separate prints joined together into one, as well as a cover image, title page and colophon. The entire book when spread out measures 18" x 288" (inches). When closed the book measures 18" x 18". Individual prints listed below are 12” x 18”, using etching, aquatint and linocut.
Gargantua in the Vineyard Cover
Most Noble Boozers
For All Your Ills
The Dregs
They Attack
Panurge and Gargantua
Fetid Wind
Blown Away
Gargantua Gets The Grapes
By: Art Hazelwood
Book Size: 12 x 9" x 1-3/8"
Year: 2020
Image Sizes: 29 original screen prints of varying size on forty four pages
View a Vimeo presentation of Tipping Point to see all images
A linen-bound art book with original color screenprints conceived of and printed by Art Hazelwood. The book binder and three-dimensional conceptual artist is Asa Nakata, who in addition to the binding has designed the interactive pull-tab art piece for the final page of the book, involving magnets and string to emulate the motion of a guillotine.
The colophon reads: "The moneybag headed capitalist, the one-eyed pyramid dollar, and the Klan mask are used here as shorthand for the destructive powers arrayed against the people and the planet at this critical moment of economic inequality, racist xenophobia and environmental disaster. But a growing alternative power is also at play. Its [sic] a power that can chalLenge the fascists if only the sleeping giant can arise to otherthrow these forces and create a world that embraces all life.
By: Miguel Conde
60 pages letter press text, with 11 illustrations by the Mexican born figurative expressionist painter Miguel Condé, whose international reputation was established after his move to Spain in 1969. Illlustrations include one triptych, 3 double page engravings, and 7 full-page illustrations. Near fine, unbound in plain wraps as issued, and presented in a folding cloth portfolio with silk ties.
Edition of 172 commissioned by the La Societe des Francs Bibliophiles, 1986
Text by: Elias Canetti
Six Etchings by: William T. Wiley
Twenty-nine photographs: Karl Bissinger
Edition of 350
The Arion Press, 2001.
Signed by the artist and the photographer
By Katherine aoki
Medium: linoleum relief print, folded accordian-style
Size: 4 x 4 inches
Katherine Aoki has been making art her entire life. In college she took a course in printmaking. And that was it. Since then Katherine has been making fine art prints, artist books and multimedia projects.
Her works are in more than 20 permanent collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Harvard University Art Museums, and New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
By: David Avery
Medium: etching
Year: 2013
Edition of 21
Image Size: 27.75 x 5 inches
Obeliscolychny was invented/appropriated by Francois Rabelais (1483-1553) and used in books IV and V of his sprawling tales of Gargantua and Pantagruel. Used to describe a kind of spit used by soldiers to hang lamps on, it acquired the meaning somewhere along the way of a lighthouse in the form of an obelisk. This print is available on its own, or as a part of this fine press book, where it unfolds once opened.
By: Charles Eckart
Midnight Ride is a fine press bound book of 30 original etchings by Charles Eckart. Each etching was created as a Christmas card for family and friends over the past 48 years. The images vary in tone and theme, including humor, landscapes and still lifes. The page size is 10-1/2 x 13.
The book was designed in collaboration with Alan Hillesheim of Digger Pine Press in Oakland, CA. they was bound by John DeMerritt in Emeryville, CA. Each book is covered with silk and rayon Japanese bookcloth. The slipcase is covered with an Italian natural finish cotton/linen bookcloth.
By: Art Hazelwood
Year: 2004
Technique: 12 color etchings with a linocut border.
Image Size: 16 3/4 x 12 3/4" platemarks
Signature: pencil, on colophon
Edition Size: 20
Cyrano de Bergerac was the true life inspiration for the romantic figure of Edmond de Rostand's nineteenth-century play. The text was printed letterpress within a linocut border. 25 pages total with colophon on handmade cream abaca paper by Eastside Editions.
Medium: Portfolio of 6 woodcut prints
Signature: Signed and numbered on colophon page
Dimensions: 7.5 x 10 inches (sheet), image size varies
Publisher: La Mano Press, blindstamp at lower right corner.
Edition: of 50
By: François Houtin
Medium: artist book with 30 contiguous etchings in accordion shaped album
Image Size: 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches
Edition: 50
Year: 1976
A Collaboration by artists at Self Help Graphics, Cal State Fullerton, and Cal State Long Beach, completed in 1996. For more information and to view all images: Black and White portfolio
By: Wuon-Gean Ho
Medium: linocut with hand-coloring
Year: 2016
Image Size: 8 x 36 inches
The print used for this book is a linocut made with a single horizontal line. The resulting mesh of black and white creates a shimmering effect that both defines and blurs the image.
By Art Hazelwood
Edition of 15
Medium: Screenprint
Year: 2008
Closed size: 7 3/8” x 12 1/2” x 1/2”
Open size 7 1/4” x 72”
Binding: gate fold hardcover
Created as part of the exhibition 'Banned and Recovered' at the San Francisco Center for the Book in 2008.
By: Art Hazelwood
Pulcinella in Hades is a new limited edition book created at Eastside Editions by Art Hazelwood. It is an accordion fold book… eight feet of continuous four plate color etchings, vertically descending into Hades. It’s a comedy. The protagonist, who appears in every image, is Pulcinella of the commedia dell’arte.
By Stan Washburn
Medium: Etching
Edition: 100
Published: 1974 by David R. Godine Publisher
The book is made up of a series of 10 etchings in a strange and darkly humorous style, reminiscent of Edward Gorey, with the text also etched into the plate.
By Carrie Lingscheit
Only Human comprises a suite of 17 mezzotint prints exploring the intriguing connections between human nature and the animal world, presented as a hand-bound book with letterpress text.
More images on request.
By Art Hazelwood
Medium: Woodcut print book –12 images (each ") and 11 text blocks
Image sizes: 7.5 x 9 inches
Book Size: 9.5 x 13 inches
Year: 1991
Edition: 50
Forest Song is a journey through illness to restored health told through symbolic imagery. The prints grew out of an extended period of illness in India where Hazelwood was traveling. He stayed there for two months being treated by Tibetan doctors and living in a hotel/monastery. It was a mysterious environment to be sinking into the lethargy of illness. The slow recovery and its accompanying sense of inwardness is the feeling out of which this series came.Printed on Mulberry paper. Published by Epigone Press, Tokyo
By Art Hazelwood
Medium: portfolio of 10 engravings in a brown paper portfolio.
Portfolio Size: 9.5 x 13 inches
Year: 2003
Edition: 25
Images:
Title Page, 3.5 x 7.5 in.
Girding For War, 6 x 9 in.
Four Horsemen, 5.75 x 7.75 in.
Romance of War, 6 x 9 in.
Victory Parade 7.75 x 11.5 in.
Returning Heroes, (They Mourn), 7.25 x 10 in.
Liberty Brought To Baghdad, 6.75 x 8.75 in.
Summer Sport, 5.75 x 8.75 in.
Sycophants,engraving, 6 x 9 in.
Study For A War Monument, 7.5 x 9.75 in.
Hubris Corpulentus is a state of obscene, overweening pride that produces monstrous realities out of the stupor of irrationality. This portfolio was created in response to the US invasion of Iraq.
Hubris Corpulentus has been acquired by the following collections:
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, New York Public Library, St. Mary's College of California Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Institute Museum, Stanford Library Special Collections
By: Seiko Tachibana
Medium: artist book with 14 intaglio Prints, Accordion fold in Hardcover
Edition: signed, dated, and numbered edition of 15
size: 11x7 inches
Year: 2010
Images exploring the five basic elements in Asian tradition--earth, air, fire, water, metal (or void).