Last year, on May 22, Rare Books lost our dear friend, Marie Christensen Dern. On that day, like the rest of the world, we were sheltering in place. We were locked out of our office, and more disorientingly, out of the Rare Books Vault. We...
From the artist’s statement: “The book embodied the conflicts I had with the traditions of fiction in which I had been steeped as a young writer and the terms of literary production I was being exposed to in the Bay Area literary scene, as well...
DANCING WITH AMELIA Charles Hobson (1943-) San Francisco, CA: Pacific Editions, 2000 N7433.4 H62 D36 2000 Charles Hobson uses a variety of printmaking methods to construct images around historical and literary themes. The book is his primary format. Mixed media drawings scanned and printed as IRIS prints. Pages die...