Search Results: Titles starting with V from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC

Studio of Exhaustion [North Carolina]:: Clifton Meador,, 2022.. Edition of 100. 6 x 14"; 96 pages. Printed by offset lithography in fluorescent colors. Hand sewn and case bound. Clifton Meador: "I was, like so many other people, stuck at home during the Pandemic. In addition to the relentless doom-scrolling of reading infection and mortality figures, I spent time looking at the websites of museums I could no longer visit. One site was particularly well designed and user-friendly: the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. As I clicked through the images of paintings, furniture, flatware, guns, metalwork, objets de vertu, coins, glass, and silver, I started thinking about the Netherlands in the 17th century and the vast wealth that was evidenced in the Rijksmuseum’s collections. I started reading about the Dutch East India company. Chartered in 1602, the Dutch East India company—or in Dutch, Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie, referred to as the VOC—was the first publicly traded… Read More

Tallahassee, Florida:: Small Craft Advisory Press,, 2015.. Edition of 200. 6.5 x 6.5" four-flap cardboard box with colophon pastedown on interior base. Contains 12 double-sided 3 x 3" blocks, each bearing a letterpress printed image. Magnet inserts on each side. 1" wide yellow rubber band closure. Numbered on colophon. Small Craft Advisory Press: "This modular piece features a collection of 12 letterpress prints adhered to magnetic blocks. The blocks are housed in a custom made four-flap cardboard box with accompanying pastedown." VVVVV relates to Judy Rushin's participatory painting project Variance Invariance, in which Rushin created a system so that artworks could be assembled, dismantled, and shipped in small boxes.  Using 12 modules that can be attached, unattached, and reattached by a series of small embedded magnets, VVVVV allows the viewer/participant to rearrange the images/prints to form new artworks. By employing viewer interaction, VVVVV… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts:: Eleonora Gomez Bas,, 2002.. One-of-a-Kind. 8" x 8.25" x 1.25"; containing 24 35mm black and white photo prints, mounted onto Strathmore Bristol cardstock. All photographs taken using Canon A1 and Canon Rebel SLR cameras, with Kodak T-MAX 400 film. Bound in cloth boards with titles printed on front cover. Laid in black glossy box with paper title label on cover. Elenora Gomez Bas: "I made this book at North Bennet Street School (Boston, MA) in 2002. My wish was to give a container to a select group of photos from a trip to 'Valle de la Pascua' (Estado Guárico, Venezuela), and from my hikes up 'El Avila' mountain (Caracas, Venezuela).  "My boyfriend and I went to 'Valle de la Pascua' (a 4 1/2 hour drive from Caracas) in 1999 to visit an altar built for the 'Anima de Pica'-Pica'; (Pica Pica Soul). Legend has it that a man by the name of José Zambrano was once found dead by a Pica-Pica plant (the… Read More

Tallahassee, Florida:: Small Craft Advisory Press,, 2013.. Edition of 75. 8.5 x 11" closed; single fold broadside. Letterpress printed on French Butcher Extra White paper. Numbered. Artist Judy Rushin partnered with the Facility for Arts Research at Florida State University for her project Variance / Invariance. Rushing created a system in which artworks are assembled, dismantled, and shipped in small boxes. This present work, also called Variance / Invariance is the instruction sheet that accompanied her art. Judy Rushin: "Variance Invariance is a participatory art project that uses abstract painting as pre-fab systems to create active art experiences. It is an extension of my desire to understand abstract painting by exploring a painting as something that can be intimately and collaboratively experienced by individuals in their own domestic spaces. By sharing my work privately with individuals and later in galleries and museums along with their shipping boxes, texts, and project… Read More

Rosendale, New York:: Women's Studio Workshop / KaKe Art,, 2018.. Edition of 49. 32, a-w, 3 pages; 14 x 15 cm. Silkscreen in four colors. Frutiger LT Std 95 Ultra Black typeface. Coptic stitch and spiral binding. Signed by the artist.  Colophon: "This book is made of two parts: the first is based on statistical data, generally on global samples. Pages are from 1 to 32. The second is based on surveys of reported data (perceptions, sensations, beliefs. Pages are from a to w [that is, a to v] You can read the two sections separately, or you can use the index to find links between the two. Choose your subject, match the numbers and letters, and then overlap the pages. "All data came from research done between October 2016 and January 2018, through different databases, reports and surveys. WSW: "'Frequently, the debate regarding gender equality becomes a clash of opinions, impeding any real inquiry. In 'The Veil is Seen Only When it is Lifted', the artist… Read More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:: Thomas Parker Williams,, 2013.. Edition of 21. 6.25 x 8.25"; 14 pages. Letterpress printed covers. Digital prints of original drawings. End papers digital prints of ink drawing. With original sound work on CD in pocket on back pastedown. Initialed and numbered by the artist. Thomas Parker Williams: "Venezia a febbraio is a portrait of Venice in February.  "The book contains a sound work, recorded there in 2011, and a series of original drawings, in the style of eighteenth-century Venetian artists executed in pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash. "The cover is an original design that is letterpress printed. The end papers are original drawings based on Venetian marbled paper.

Tucson, Arizona:: Spaceheater Editions,, 2016.. Edition of 50. 7 x 7"; 48 pages. HP Indigo printed on acid-free Mohawk Superfine paper. Signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon. Includes an original, signed, archival inkjet print, in an antique silkworm-patterned glassine enclosure attached to back pastedown. Text block has blackened head, tail, and fore-edges. Bound in pictorial paper boards. Spaceheater Editions: "Vergangenheitsbewältigung is the process of coming to terms with the past. Vergangenheit, 'past,' and bewältigung, 'overcoming the negative, repressed and incriminating mental injuries and guilt.' It is a German composite-word that is best rendered in English as a 'struggle to overcome the negatives of the past.' "In 2016 Garcia found a box of old family photographs in an antique store. The photographs chronicled the life of a small German-American boy named Klaus Lechner, starting around 1890 and continuing until the 1940s… Read More

Chicago, Illinois:: Clifton Meador,, 2012.. Edition of 20. 4 x 9"; 8 pages with 2 fold outs. Saddle stitch binding. Paper wraps. Clifton Meador: "I've been thinking a lot about victory and defeat recently." The covers are from a Washington, DC newspaper of April 10, 1865, announcing General Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The images are from Matthew Brady's photographs of Lee taken 10 days later.

San Francisco, California:: Insiya Dhatt,, 2022.. Edition of 20. 12 x 9" closed; 11 pages. Double sided accordion. Bound like a wedding album with henna-colored handmade Japanese Momi Kyoseishi paper and covered in a bridal sari to represent the life of a married woman. The henna hands art was laser engraved on handmade Indian cotton rag paper using an Epilog Fusion Pro laser. The text is letterpressed printed using Garamond typeface on a Vandercook cylinder press. Signed and numbered by the artist. Insiya Dhatt: "'Vidai' was conceptualized at the beginning of 2022 to share the tradition of arranged marriages in India and the artist's own experience.  "The book is a two-sided accordion and includes the poem 'Hands Latticed' written by Athena Kashyap in her book 'Sita's Choice' about her grandmother's experience in an arranged marriage. The book opens with the poem that aptly describes the trepidation faced by a young bride and a lifetime of… Read More

Everett, Washington:: John R. Hastings,, 2016.. Edition of 10. 5.5 x 4.25"; 36 pages. Printed on HP premium presentation paper using an Epson Stylus Photo 2200 printer with pigment inks. Arial font. Wire binding with black card covers. Signed and numbered by the artist. John Hastings, introduction: "For over thirty-five years Charlotte and I were able to travel. We enjoyed some wonderful and interesting adventures, and these were often the inspiration for our artistic collaborations and for my writing. The, in 2013, Charlotte was diagnosed with a rare degenerative brain disease called Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD). Unfortunately, this disease is progressive and there is no treatment nor cure. As her health declined we were forced to stop traveling, and now we are essentially housebound. My initial reaction to this was almost claustrophobic panic because I love to get out and see new places. FTD has robbed me of not only my best friend but also my muse. "The answer, I… Read More

Tuscaloosa, AL:: Frogsong Press,, 2019.. Edition of 20. Size: 4 x 9" in paper box with band type slipcase. Colophon tipped in bottom of box. Contains three pamphlets. Letterpress printed. Materials: Hahnemuhle Ingres paper; kozo paper; handmade wisteria and kozo paper; handmade cotton/flax paper; thread. Signed and numbered by the artists. Frogsong Press: "'Vines', 'A Looming Is', & 'We Sent it to the Moon' is a collection of three letterpress-printed books that represent a collaboration between Alexa Tullett, Sarah Scarr, and Jillian Sico (respectively). Each book presents a unique perspective on the present and future of electronic and digital waste. The three books are housed in a box designed to look like a 1990s-era cell phone. "'Vines', written by Alexa Tullett, is a humorous textual 'archive' of six-second video clips that were uploaded to the now-defunct social media service Vine. The descriptions are accompanied by images… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2014.. Edition of 15. 8.5 x 6.5" closed; 5 leaves. Screen printed on a Gocco printer, hand-colored, and hand-cut. Fan book structure with tie closure at the handle/spine. In stiff green paper open-ended envelope. Signed and numbered by the artist. Each book varies slightly because of the handcoloring. Goodale continues her documentation of imperiled fauna with Maine's Alpine Marsh Violet. The viola palustris in Maine is "critically imperiled because of extreme rarity or vulnerability to extirpation."

San Jose, California:: Midnight Moon Press,, 2009.. Edition of 25. 11.75 x 9"; 21 leaves. Original images and haiku by the artist. Text printed using Footlight MT Light font. Archival inkjet printing on Rives BFK. Japanese stab binding. Paper covered boards with illustrated paper title tipped on front board. Ginger Burrell: "Virtual/Reality began with a discussion with my niece about the amazing landscapes along the Northern California coast. She told me, 'I don't need to go there, I can just look at pictures on my computer.' In Virtual/Reality haiku, paired with original photographs, argues that virtual will never replace reality."  Is the irony intentional?

Orlando, Florida:: Rachel Simmons,, 2023.. Deluxe edition of 15, variable. Each copy includes a print-on-demand artists' book with fold out postcards and a different original mixed media drawing from the "Visible Climate" series. The hardcover drum-leaf bound book is 10" x 8" and the drawings average around 8.5" x 11" in size. Each drawing is unique, and made by hand using photo transfers, watercolor and charcoal pencil. Numbered. Rachel Simmons: "This interdisciplinary project was completed in 2020 by Lee Lines (geographer) and Rachel Simmons (artist), colleagues at Rollins College who have collaborated on environmentally themed visual art projects since 2010. 'Visible Climate' is the product of more than 175 hours of field work in our national parks, researching and documenting climate change impacts, followed by a collaborative process of translating visual evidence into an artists' book to shed light on the impacts of climate change in some of… Read More

Cincinnati, Ohio:: Jusith Serling-Sturm:,, [undated].. One-of-a-Kind. 18.75 x 3.5" closed. Accordion binding. Handwritten paper title label on front board. Materials: Lokta, fine art paper, mylar, charcoal, watercolor, pencils, metallic marker, linen thread, buttons, beads. Signed by the artist. Judith Serling-Sturm: "Constructed as a window shade that doesn't quite open fully ,this artist book explores the reflections of a child too young to understand what is happening when her sexual abuser comes to her at night and tells her he is a magician who can make a particular body part disappear. "By using a vertical accordion structure that opens like a window shade and Mylar panels that reflect a distorted image, this piece illustrated sexual abuse from a child's point of view.

New Paltz, New York:: Papyrus Productions ,, 2010.. Edition of 10. 12 x 8"; 19 leaves. Photography. Japanese stab binding. Papyrus Productions: "This book pretends to be a scholarly object by presenting a compendium of plates based on a 2008 trip to Bolivia."  In this book Deschamps becomes "Professor of Imagery and Dialectics at State University No. 23a.

Atlanta, Georgia:: Nexus Press,, 2000.. Edition of 800. 5 x 7.25"; 144 pages. Printed offset in duotones on Mohawk Options paper. Smythe sewn. Illustrated paper wraps.Signed by author. Prospectus: "In this diary-like artist's book, Sligh recounts a trip to Japan through a thoughtfully constructed montage of photography, texts, and abstract gestural paintings. In personal and poetic musings, the author ponders her relationship to Japanese culture, both as a first time visitor and as an African American woman."  Clarissa Sligh: "This work comes out of a visit with people and places in Japan. It is also based on research of the historical circumstances surrounding the United States decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan and reflections on what visiting Hiroshima meant to me as an American.

[Dundas], Ontario, Canada:: The Aliquando Press,, 2018.. Edition of 40. 4.75 x 6.25"; 44 pages. Letterpress printed. Designed, printed, and bound by William Rueter. Numbered. Bound in wraparound cover with slip slot closure. In paper slipcase.. The text is a reconstructed interview taken from essays printed in the Pall Mall Gazette of 1891, the Daily Chronicle of 1893, the English Illustrated Magazine of 1895, and Bookselling of 1895. The frontispiece wood engraving of William Morris by Robert Bryden, c. 1899, is based on an 1884 photo by Frederick Hollyer. William Rueter, colophon: "In making this book, I have been inspired by Morris' passion for the Middle Ages. The text type, Nephi Medieval, was designed and cast by Jim Rimmer, who also cast the Cavatina ornament designed by the printer. The Tell Text 5 type is an adaptation of Morris' Chaucer typeface design."  Vamp & Tramp: "This lovely little tome is worthy of its subject.