About Special Collections
About:
Overview of the materials found in Special Collections
Location:
Dale Reading Room for Archives + Special Collections
Room 201, second floor
Hours:
Monday - Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
How to identify materials in Special Collections:
All materials are in the RISD library online catalog and distinguished by call number location prefixes:
SPECIAL, SPECIAL OVERSIZE, FLAT FOLIO, LARGE FOLIO, SPECIAL PERIODICAL.
Artists' Books have these location prefixes:
ARTISTS' BOOKS, ARTISTS' BOOKS OVERSIZE, ARTISTS' BOOKS FLAT FOLIO, and ARTISTS' BOOKS RISD.
Access:
- Already know of a specific book or periodical in Special Collections that you wish to see? Drop in any time we are open.
- Not sure what special materials you want to see? Email Laurie Whitehill Chong to discuss your research/project and schedule an appointment.
Duplication Options:
All duplication requests are subject to copyright fair use restrictions and condition of the materials. Readers may take digital photographs, upon request.
Sketching and Note-taking:
- Allowed: graphite and ordinary pencils, sketchbooks, notebooks, paper, laptops, iPads, phones.
- Not allowed: pens, markers, charcoal, paint, ink, etc.
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Selected Titles About Artists' Books
30 years of innovation : a survey of exhibition history at the Center for Book Arts, 1974-2004 / organized by Jae Jennifer Rossman, guest curator.
Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N7433.3 .T43 2005
The art of the book '03 : a juried exhibition of members' work celebrating the twientieth anniversary of the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guid = The art of book '03 : une exposition-concours des oeuvres par les membres en célébration du vingtiÃ
Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N7433.35.C2 C33 2003
Creating artists' books / Sarah Bodman.
Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N7433.3 .B62 2005
No longer innocent : book art in America, 1960-1980 / Betty Bright.
Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N7433.3 .B75 2005
Artists' books : the book as a work of art, 1963-1995 / Stephen Bury.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .B87 1995
A century of artists books / Riva Castleman.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .C37 1994
Collaboration as a medium : 25 years of Pyramid Atlantic / created by Helen Frederick and Jane M. Farmer ; foreword by Roger Mandle ; introduction by Leslie King - Hammond and Buzz Spector.
Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N7433.4.P96 A4 2005
Russian avant-garde books, 1917-34 / Susan Compton.
Call Number: RISD MAIN Z116.A3 C72 1993
The world backwards : Russian futurist books, 1912-16 / Susan P. Compton.
Call Number: RISD MAIN NC985 .C65 1978 c.2
Facing the page : British artists' books : a survey 1983-1993.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.35.G7 F3
Speaking of book art : interviews with British and American book artists / by Cathy Courtney.
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS N7433.35.G7 C68 1999
Der Raum der Worte : Polnische Avantgarde und Künstlerbücher, 1919-1990 : Ausstellung des Centrum Sztuki Wspólczsnej, Warschau und der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel im Malerbuchkabinett der Bibliotheca Augusta / ausstellung und katalog, Piotr
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.35.P7 R3 1991
The century of artists' books / Johanna Drucker.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .D78 1995
The visible word : experimental typography and modern art, 1909-1923 / Johanna Drucker.
Call Number: RISD MAIN Z124 .D78 1994
The dual muse : the writer as artist, the artist as writer / introduction by Cornelia Homburg ; essays by Johanna Drucker and William H. Gass.
Call Number: RISD MAIN NX175 .D78 1997
Figuring the word : essays on books, writing, and visual poetics / Johanna Drucker.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .D781 1998
The next word : text and/as image and/as design and/as meaning : an interdisciplinary exhibition of visual art, artists' books, graphic design, and visual poetry / curated by Johanna Drucker.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .D782 1998
Offset : artists' books & prints.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .F74 1993
Objects / encounters : bookworks at Flying Fish Press 1987-2001 / Connell B. Gallagher and Cynthia Imperatore.
Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N7433.4.C52 G3 2002
Book as artwork, 1960-72 / Germano Celant ; [translated from the Italian by Corine Lotz].
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL REF. N7433.3 .C44 1972
Guardare, raccontare, pensare, conservare : quattro percorsi del libro d'artista dagli anni '60 ad oggi / a cura di Anne Moeglin-Delcroix ... [et al.].
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS N7433.3 .G83 2004
Books by artists / Tim Guest, Germano Celant ; edited by Tim Guest.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .G8 1981
Women of the book : Jewish artists, Jewish themes / Judith A. Hoffberg.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.4 .H63 2001
The cutting edge of reading : artists' books / Renée Riese Hubert & Judd D. Hubert.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .H83 1999
Surrealism and the book / Renée Riese Hubert.
Call Number: RISD MAIN NC963.S87 H8 1988
Artists books in the modern era 1870-2000 : the Reva and David Logan collection of illustrated books / Robert Flynn Johnson and Donna Stein.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .J63 2001
Artists books : a critical survey of the literature / Stefan Klima.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .K64 1998
Artist/author : contemporary artists' books / Cornelia Lauf and Clive Phillpot ; [book design by Renée Green].
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .L37 1998
Prints & books : artist collaborations with printmaker Ruth Lingen.
Call Number: RISD ARTISTS' BOOKS NE539.L55 A4 2005
Creating with abandon : process in the artists' books of Angela Lorenz.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.4.L67 A4 2006
Artists' books : a critical anthology and sourcebook / edited by Joan Lyons.
Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N7433.3 .A75 1985
Mr. Fluxus : a collective portrait of George Maciunas, 1931- 1978 : based upon personal reminiscences / gathered by Emmett Williams und [i.e. and] Ay-O, and edited by Emmett Williams and Ann Noël.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N6537.M313 M7 1998
Cover to cover : the artist's book in perspective / Rob Perrée.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .P47 2002
By chance : serendipity and randomness in contemporary artists' books / Robin Price, Jae Jennifer Rossman.
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL N7433.3 .B657 2004
Offset : a survey of artists' books / by Gary Richman.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .R52 1984
Books and pages : Polish Avant-garde and Artists' books in the 20th century / Piotr Rypson.
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL N7433.35.P7 R9 2000
Two hundred books by Keith Smith : book number 200, an anecdotal bibliography / Keith A. Smith.
Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N7433.4.S65 A4 2000
The book maker's desire : writings on the art of the book / Buzz Spector ; design, Nan Goggin.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .S63 1995
Talking the boundless book : art, language, and the book arts : essays from Art & language, re-reading the boundless book / Dick Higgins ...[et al.] ; edited & introduced by Charles Alexander.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.3 .T36 1995
Unica T : zehn Jahre Künstlerbücher = ten years of artists' books / [Herausgeber, Unica T ; Übersetzung ins Englische, Karin Nedela, Christa Nickel ; Übersetzung aus dem Amerikanischen, Ulrike Stoltz].
Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N7433.35.G3 U5 1996
The book as art : artists' books from the National Museum of Women in the arts / Krystyna Wasserman ; with essays by Johanna Drucker and Audrey Niffenegger.
Call Number: RISD MAIN N7433.35.U6 W37 2007
Discovering elements : a rhetoric of visual presentation / Merce Richardson Wilczek.
Call Number: RISD SPECIAL LARGE FOLIO Z116.A3 W5 1992
Books as art : August 30-October 6, 1991, Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Call Number: RISD OVERSIZE N7433.3 .B66 1991
Special Collections Librarian / Curator of Artists' Books |
 Laurie Whitehill Chong |
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