The Black Book

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Barbara Bloom
The Black Book
[Dust Jacket Edition]
New York, Printed Matter Inc., 1993
1000 ex.

Uma edição de 1.000 jaquetas impressas em offset permite que você crie seu próprio livro da Barbara Bloom, simplesmente colocando esta capa ao redor do livro de sua escolha.

An edition of 1,000 offset-printed dustjackets allows you to create your own book by Barbara Bloom, simply by wrapping this cover around the book of your choice.

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Livro Livre Sobre Livros

Simone Peixoto e Julio Giacomelli
Livro Livre Sobre Livros
Campinas/Londrina: Xilomóvel/Grafatório, 2016
Xilogravura, tipografia e serigrafia

Produzido nos ateliês do Xilomóvel (Campinas/SP) e do Grafatório (Londrina/PR).
Texto composto com tipos de metal do acervo do Grafatório.
Encadernado por Uno Duo.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/51433565/Livro-Livre-Sobre-Livros

http://www.cardume.art.br/portfolio/items/livro-livre-sobre-livros/

Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information

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David Byrne
Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information
Alemanha, Steidl/Pace/MacGill Gallery, 2003
27.5 x 35.5 cm
ISBN: 978-3882439076

“For more than a year I have used the ubiquitous sales and presentation program PowerPoint as an art medium. This book of images and essays also contains a DVD which plays five of these pieces accompanied by original music. The book itself contains a dozen new written pieces and a lot of beautiful (subjectively speaking) images from the PowerPoint pieces that feature plastic overlays, foldouts, and a whole lot more. But what is it about?

“It is about taking subjective, even emotional, information and presenting it in a familiar audio visual form using a medium in a way that is different and possibly better than what was intended. It is representing one thing by another thing, the other thing not the first thing and neither thing resembling the second thing.” From the artist.

https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/17125/

Nothing in The New York Times

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Joseph Ernst
Nothing in The New York Times
Londres, Sineline Projects, 2017
38 x 29.5 cm.
[20] p.

NOTHING IN THE NEWS: Newspapers from around the world with nothing in them.

We live in a world of constant sensory overload. 24 hours a day we are bombarded with information in real time by every media outlet and platform competing for our attention, one pop-up notification at a time.

And we play ball. We invest hours on end staring at our mobile devices. We want to know what’s going on, the why and the how. We need to know. But in our perpetual quest to fill every spare minute of our time searching for something meaningful, we learn nothing. We are so busy filling every waking moment with things to watch and do, and learn and listen to, that we have forgotten what it is like to just be. To sit around and think. To switch off and be bored. To daydream.

This project offers a little respite to all this information overload.

Yes, we live in particularly sensitive times. Times where the truth really matters, and where newspapers have a more important role to play in modern democracies than ever before. But for a society addicted to breaking news, gossip, and celebrity status, to Facestagram and Twapchat, the latest trends, and the top tens, to sports punditry, conspiracy theories, cat videos, and ridiculous amounts of porn … for this cultural precipice, we offer the one thing you need more than anything else: “Nothing”. Absolutely nothing. Today, and today only, there is Nothing in the News. Enjoy it whilst you can.

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https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/47917/
http://josephernst.com/nitn.htm

Titrer

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Julien Nédélec
Titrer
Brest, Zédélé éditions, 2012
17 x 24 cm
64 p.
ISBN 978-2-915859-42-3

“In 1967 and 1968,” Richard Serra said about Untitled (Verb List), “I wrote down a verb list as a way of applying various activities to unspecified materials. To roll, to fold, to bend, to shorten, to shave, to tear, to chip, to split, to cut, to sever. The language structured my activities in relation to materials which had the same function as transitive verbs.» I too have put together a list of action verbs describing my own practice and in particular my relationship with paper: to turn, to split, to tear, to cut, to mask, to divide, to cut into pieces, to make a hole, to dampen, to fold, to caption, to enlarge, to roll, to duplicate, to look at, to hold up, to turn down the corners, to pick up, to fold down, to crumple, to shorten, to move, to find, to repair, to twist, to dirty, to burn, to groove, to macerate, to lift, to put back together, to bend, to stack up, to grease, to reproduce, to reduce, to examine, to lift up… This list has becomes a working method, which I use in applying simple actions to paper. In this way, the paper itself becomes a sculpture.

http://www.lapetitelibrairie.net/zedele/titrer.html

http://julien-nedelec.net/wordpress/index.php/titrer/

Iluminuras V

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Júlio Martins e Marco Antonio Mota
Iluminuras V
Nunc, Belo Horizonte, 2014
16 x 13cm
83 p.

Iluminuras é uma série de livros de artista feitos em diálogo entre os autores. Reúne anotações, conversas e exercícios realizados entre Júlio Martins e Marco Antonio Mota em desenhos, fotografias e textos, com uma pretensão de literatura.