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...
Maple Leaf Rag Ellen Banks (1938-2017) Atlanta, GA: E. Banks, 1988 N7433.4 B36 M3 1988 oversize Black artist Ellen Banks is known for her geometric abstract painting entirely inspired by musical notation. Her “Maple Leaf Rag” indicates how the concept works. She translates the notes on the staff to...
Tomorrow is easy, but today is uncharted, Desolate, reluctant as any landscape To yield what are laws of perspective After all only to the painter's deep Mistrust, a weak instrument though Necessary. Of course some things Are possible, it knows, but it doesn't know Which ones. Some day we will try To do...
Konkrete Poesie International Stuttgart: Edition H. Mayer, 1965 PT1241 C6 K66 1965 Thirteen letterpress prints in black and white by Carlo Belloli (1922-2003), Claus Bremer (1924-1996), Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), Pierre Garnier (b. 1928), Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), Eugen Gommringer (b. 1925), José Lino Grünewald (1931–2000), Josef Hirsal (1920-2003),...