Pick of the week, May 17: HERetic, an artist’s book

This week, we just added a new artist’s book to our collection: HERetic: Joan of Arc, by Dorothy Simpson Krause (Marshfield Hills, Mass. : Viewpoint Editions, 2009). What’s an artist’s book, you say?  One short definition, by scholar Stephen Bury,  says that “Artists’ books are books or book-like objects over the final appearance of which … Read more

Pick of the week, Sept. 21

It’s been just over a year since the Occupy Wall Street protest movement began.  In honor of the anniversary of the movement’s beginning (on September 17, 2011), here are some images from a new addition to our collection, just cataloged this week: an artist’s book consisting of 24 plastic cards, made to look like credit … Read more