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The Canadian Romantic by Robert Dayton The Canadian Romantic is a melodramatic figure of faded glamour who tries to bridge and explore the gap between Canada and romance with somewhat dubious results. This tenderly hand-drawn tome contains relationship advice, Canadian erotic facts, and will loom uncomfortably close in your personal space until you surrender to the moment. You will come alive with laughter feeling like you’ve woken up at an undisclosed time with makeup smeared across your face. 20.00 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Complex Subjects by Morgan Ritter Complex Subjects is a deep investigation of the philosophy of charged objects and Morgan Ritter's current art practice. Here is the new way of understanding the material world through tactile intelligence. What composite realities are contained in a clay ball? And what is revealed by placing the clay ball on a bookshelf? These experiments and more are contained within the covers of this book. Complex Subjects is available in color print with a one of a kind raku sculpture, and is also available in color without the sculpture, as well as in black and white print. $69 artist edtion; $34 soft cover color; $24 soft cover b/w; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Notebooks by Diana Balmori Notebooks is a record of sketches by Diana Balmori FASLA. Reflecting twenty years of thinking, drawing, and crafting, the book provides a window into the personal practice of landscape design. $29 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: |
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Sometimes They Sang by Helen Potrebenko
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Whole Lotta Love by Myfanwy MacLeod
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The Frozen Moment by Colin Farstad (editor) The Frozen Moment: Contemporary Writers on the Choices That Change Our Lives is a new literary anthology edited by Colin Farstad. The anthology mixes fiction, poetry, essays, and narrative non-fiction by emerging and established writers exploring the pivotal moments that change the direction of our lives. Featuring twenty four pieces from authors such as novelist Tom Spanbauer, essayist Akhim Yuseff Cabey, short story writer Liz Prato, Pushcart-nominated poet Nora Robertson, Literary Arts Fellowship recipients David Hernandez and Margaret Malone, along with emerging writers such as Gigi Little and other writers from all over the United States, the collected stories map a broad terrain of the frozen moment. $25 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Looking Glass Book by Melody Owen Looking Glass Book is a series of hand cut collages by the artist Melody Owen inspired by two
books written by Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass. Owen
illustrated the books, chapter by chapter, through the medium of hand
cut collage, drawing mostly on images from old copies of National Geographic. Owen treats these fragments as something more than pictorial illustrations, exposing the reverse of the collages en face. The result is a book which subtly oscillates between image and object, information and feeling. $40 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The "Berlin Chronicle" Notices by Walter Benjamin This book of new research and commentary by Carl Skoggard brings another volume of Walter Benjamin's work into a superb new translation. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) began to ruminate on his Berlin childhood not long before he fled Germany for good, in 1933. The resulting "Berlin Chronicle" notices––forty in all––explore the ways of memory in relation to place––in light of Benjamin's own memories and in relation to his native place. Rich in themselves, these "Chronicle" notices provide a unique key to the esoteric texts Benjamin would produce for his much-loved Berlin Childhood circa 1900. $22 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Berlin Childhood circa 1900 by Walter Benjamin This book of new research and commentary by Carl Skoggard brings philosopher Walter Benjamin's engaging autobiographical text into a new translation that is faithful to Benjamin's voice. Berlin Childhood circa 1900, Skoggard writes, "conjures Benjamin's earliest years in a series of mysterious tableaux. But it also reflects an urgent moment in his adult life—one that posed challenges to everything he had thought and felt previously." Our Jank Edition is illustrated with thirty black & white photographs and includes a foldable, color map of Berlin, circa 1900, offset-printed by Container Corps, Portland, Ore. $22, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Regarding Head Shape: Acknowledgment Of The Haircut As Form by Ryann Bosetti Ryann Bosetti's Regarding Head Shape: Acknowledgment Of The Haircut As Form is a book of hairdressing and form. Ryann Bosetti, with a background in traditional mathematical hairdressing speaks of her realization of the importance of intuition and individuality in haircuts. Originally written as an essay during her time in Marfa, Texas Bosetti writes in her prologue, "Without dismissing the role of a fundamental structural standard in the architecture of the Haircut, it is my intent to review the subjective constructive consciousness and complex human dynamic that may replace the concept of mere replication as the backbone of this process....The variance between the mindset of the conventional Hairdresser and that of the progressive Hairdresser lies in their decision to accept or reject the cryptic challenge of this subjective artistic method." This book was typeset by Scott Ponik. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Astral Talk by Aidan Koch
Astral Talk is an anthology of
comics compiled by Portland artist and musician, Aidan
Koch. The
anthology features work by comic artists from around the world, including Clara
Bessijelle, Austin English, Dunja Jankovic, Blaise Larmee, Jason Overby, Jaakko
Pallasvuo, Ward Zwart, and Aidan Koch. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Quilt and The Truck by Nancy Shaver Nancy Shaver is a visual artist living and working in Jefferson, New York. Her sculpture and photography celebrate the simple beauty of everyday utilitarian objects while simultaneously investigating the position of such materials within a greater aesthetic economy. Since 1994 Shaver has been the proprietor of the store Henry in Hudson, New York, a kind of laboratory retail space where Shaver collects and sells many of the objects that inspire or eventually make their way into her sculptural work. The Quilt and the Truck is a mediation on two such objects, handmade relics from a recent past. The book also contains documentation of Shaver's most recent body of sculptural work as well as an essay by Jean-Philippe Antoine, newly translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis. $40 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Collected by Jacqueline Suskin This first collection of poems by Jacqueline Suskin grew from photographs the Arcata-based poet found "in Florida flea markets, on the side of the road, in junk shops, and mainly in the trash." The poems are presented opposite their companions photos in this full-color 54-page collection, printed by Digicraft, Portland, Ore., and bound and published by Publication Studio. $20, paperback; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Weekday (issue no. 2) by editors: Megan Stockton, Patricia No, Alex Felton, Sam Korman, Jae Choi Weekday is Publication Studio's occasional journal of new writing. Contributors to issue no. 2 include Sarah Meadows, Diana George, Drew Scott Swenhaugen, Elizabeth Pusack, Don Antenen, Jordan Stempleman, Sara Jaffe, Ben Marcus, Edward Jeffrey Kirksciun, Jane Wong, Samuel Lang Budin, Zach Savitch, Katherine Perry, Valentine Freeman, Craig Epplin, Israel Lund, Melanie Noel, Michael LaPointe, Andrew Wilhite, Ossian Foley, and Tim Young $14 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Weekday (issue no. 1) by editors: Patricia No, Alex Felton, and Brett Heiney Weekday is Publication Studio's occasional journal of new writing. Contributors to issue no. 1 include Charles Boardman; Christine Hou; Jae Choi; Geoffrey Sanborn; Charles Bernstein; Jon Raymond + Todd Haynes; Arnold Kemp; Molly Young; Laura Jaramillo; Robert Kelly; Theodore Wheeler; Patrick Tesh; MacKenzie Courtney; Thomas Shepherd; Luc Sante; Jenny Hendrix; and Alex Felton. $14, softcover, $9 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Bad Printing Dumb Production by Antonia Pinter Antonia Pinter's Bad Printing Dumb Production is a book of Pinter's reproduced work that has been manipulated in the act of documentation. Included is an introduction by Sam Korman that touches on the question of indecipherable information in print form. "...why did I produce anything yesterday, when I reproduce it today. One way or another Pinter does not seem to answer this question and from the first page –– a rectangle of cropping the pink, de-saturated striations that subtly begin to reveal slight smudges toward the bottom of the image –– she offers a more oblique circumscription of the question..." -Sam Korman
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Hirsch E.P. Rothko by Hirsch E.P. Rothko Hirsch E.P. Rothko by Hirsch E.P. Rothko, a memoir of a year spent in the mountains living and working in a license plate shed, is a dramatized account of a lived experience. The nine-chapter narrative also contains a polemic about regional painting's relevance in a world in which the United Sates might be a regional, rather than international, power, and in an art world in which established methods of critical art—predicated on negation, subversion, parody and deconstruction—seem increasingly ineffective. Instead, it proposes a kind of creative critique based on invention and synthesis, the privileged form of which is fiction. In Rothko's own words: “Regionalism is not a style, but a mode of and model for making. It not so much suspends the viewer’s disbelief as it enables an artist to suspend his self-consciousness. The respite from criticality opens a fictive space where a conceptual artist can be a painter, a painter a writer, an art dealer a publisher.... Regionalism is the protective shell that allows us to be real artists again." $14, softcover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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the buddhist by Dodie Bellamy
While ending an affair with a Buddhist teacher, Dodie Bellamy wrote about it simultaneously on her blog. This experiment in writing in extremis explores
nuances of public shame, the vagaries of desire and rage, and Bellamy's
confusion over the authenticity of group and individual
spirituality. What is personal, what is public? In the electronic age,
can anybody tell the difference?
the buddhist celebrates marginalized
subjectivity as enacted in the work of female artists from Bessie Smith
to Eva Hesse and Carolee Schneeman, to Bhanu Kapil and Ariana Reines.
The Allone Co. Edition contains the essence of the blog, as well as more
extended narratives too explicit to post on line. Designed by Wayne
Smith.
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A River Story by Anna Odessa Linzer American Book Award-winner Anna Odessa Linzer's new novel tells the story of Fish Town, a self-invented community that took root along the banks of the north fork of the Skagit River, near La Conner, Washington. The story is told by a young woman named Rose, recollecting her childhood, and an older man, Leo, recalling his late-in-life romance with both the place and the people of Fish Town. Anna Odessa Linzer is a poet, prose-writer, and long-distance cold-water swimmer. Her first novel, Ghost Dancing was published by Picador USA.
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Letters to the Pacific by Aaron Peck Aaron Peck's second book quotes Gertrude Stein in its epigram: "Act so there is no use in a center." These eleven letters, sent by the author from New York back to "the Pacific" during a one-year study at City University of New York, articulate the complex traffic between the many geographical edges that shape a life. In this volume the letters have been annotated by artists Adam Harrison and Dominic Osterried, who also designed the book. The plain edition comes with 243 black & white illustrations. Letters to the Pacific is available in 36 limited edition copies, featuring five tipped-in color plates by Adam Harrison and Christopher Williams, hand-worked pages by Johannes Bendzulla, and a DVD with unique stamped and spray-painted case in a DHL-yellow spray-painted envelope. An artist edition of 12 books includes all the content of the limited edition plus 12 limited-edition prints by Adam Harrison and Dominic Osterried, and is signed by Johannes Bendzulla, Adam Harrison, Dominic Osterried, Aaron Peck, and Christopher Williams. Aaron Peck is also the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis, published by Pedlar Press of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and bootlegged in 2009 (with the author's permission) by Publication Studio. $25, plain edition; $125, limited edition; $350 artist's edition; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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My Artistic Life is a Mobile State by Kristy Edmunds My Artistic Life is a Mobile State by Kristy Edmunds is an exploration of the reality of Edmunds' professional life as an artist. In her introduction she speaks of the difference between being a practicing artist and a being a project maker. In 2004 Kristy Edmunds received the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship and showed in the Bonnie Bronson Fellows: 20 Years exhibition at the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. The images within this book were taken with Edmunds' iPhone over the course of a month while she was traveling and curating in Australia and Los Angeles. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Golems Waiting Redux by Daniel Duford M. F. McAuliffe Golems Waiting Redux is a book of documentation of Daniel Duford's golem sculptures from 2002. They had been installed in a vacant lot on SW 3rd and Taylor in Portland, Oregon, and were intended to stay for a month. The sculptures were almost immediately smashed, and in M. F. McAuliffe's introduction she speaks of her experience coming upon the sculptures to document them and witnessing their ruin. Following the introduction is a poem by Doug Spangle. Also included is a two-color woodblock print by Daniel Duford. $50 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The History of Junior Ambassadors Food Cart: A Mostlandian Venture by Rudy Speerschneider The History of Junior Ambassadors Food Cart: A Mostlandian Venture by Rudy Speerschneider is a book about the ice cream cart that inhabited a now empty lot in NE Portland, Oregon. The cart served a variety of unconventional flavors, hosted music shows, and was in all a social project. The book is a collection of documents that surrounded the food cart's existence. There are surveys, questionnaires, drawings, along with inserted color photographs of the cart. Each copy has a unique cover and flavor designed by Rudy Speerschneider. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Template Files by D. E. May The Template Files: Works By D. E. May is a book of images of the artist's work that are interspersed with quotes from the artist. The book is fronted by an introduction written by Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, who wrote A Classroom Reader. D. E. May's work is reminiscent of Agnes Martin, Donald Judd, Robert Mangold and Gordon Matta-Clark. "This work reflects the abstract climate and restraint that I've tried to keep true in my work over time. A number of years ago a musician was in my workroom holding one of my constructions in his hand and commented, 'it looks like it has always been this way.' I carry that observation with me like a compass." --D. E. May
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Elevator Mirror Displacements by Sebastian Black Sebastian Black's Elevator Mirror Displacements, mobilizes the form of the elevator safety mirror in a parody of Robert Smithson's 1969 work Yucatan Mirror Displacements. Black's work is installed in the faux-natural pockets of the urban environment and the expanded ocular space of Smithon's work is further dispersed by the convexity of the mirrors. According to Black, "the space of the elevator-with its chit chat requirements, its even and equalizing light, and its general trajectory toward the office, apartment complex, gym etc-is a space where our subjectivity and subjecthood are quite clearly exposed as inextricable. Its a volume of consensus, of parallel lines, not overlap, and least of all confrontation. The mirror carves out its own warped wedge of space where the overlap of bodies, and violence in general is perpetually immanent." $25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Archive for a Mountain by Marc Handelman As massive as its subject matter at 740 pages, Archive For A Mountain by Marc Handelman is a catalog of images--screenshots, scans, microfilm, analog photos, and essays--of the German-Austrian mountain the Untersberg. Its overwhelming scale creates a rich playing field for different modes of viewing experience. One could certainly get lost in Archive For A Mountain as one could get lost in the mountains. $400 soft cover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Images Are Words / Las Imagenes Son Palabras by Matt Keegan Images Are Words/Las Imagenes Son Palabras by New York based artist Matt Keegan employs the same visual strategy as his A History of New York, but on a more massive scale. At 774 pages, the book is composed entirely of flash-cards that Keegan's mother hand-assembled over fifteen years to teach English as a Second Language to adults. The sequencing of the book is rhythmic and musical with recurring themes, motifs and geometries.
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Marks and Angles by Lucy Pullen With visual art, philosophy, quantum physics, and the help of engineers and astrophysicists Lucy Pullen created The Cloud Chamber and The Spark Chamber. When a cosmic ray enters The Cloud Chamber a contrail is created and when a cosmic ray enters The Spark Chamber a spark is ignited. Marks and Angles is Lucy Pullen's book created at the Henry Art Gallery with PS. It is bound in reflective mirror dust paper and there is a hole punched through the entire book. $40 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Wellspring by Daniel Duford Wellspring is a collection of poetry by Daniel Duford that spans the decade of 1993-2003. Duford is an artist and writer, professor at PNCA, as well as the co-owner of the print and design collective Cumbersome Multiples. This book includes four original woodblock prints that divide each section of poetry. Wellspring touches on the cyclical nature of life and is a reflection of Duford's past and present. $25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Volume North & Volume South by David Horvitz Zach Houston Volume North & Volume South is a two volume collaboration between David Horvitz and Zach Houston. On their 2010 California coast road trip Horvitz took photos of the sea while Houston responded with poetry which has resulted in this publication. $30 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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The Gift Shop by Matthew Offenbacher Matthew Offenbacher's The Gift Shop with orange risograph prints is layered on black and white images of work in the exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery's museum gift shop of Seattle. Matthew Offenbacher with these exhibitions asks the questions: What can an art exhibition do? How can artists work together? Who is the audience for an art exhibition? What responsibilities do artists have towards their audience? What responsibilites do audiences have? What is the relationship between artists and the institutions who support them? What can we learn from each other? "Museum gift shops are fabulously liminal places. They sit in the middle of a complex web of transitional space, shifting methods of discourse, utopian and practical considerations, different understandings and misunderstanding of the purpose and function of art."
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Where We Live Now by Thomas Sieverts and others Where We Live Now (an annotated reader) presents the work of urban planner Thomas Sieverts in a new English translation by Diana George together with selected
readings in urban theory and history. The readings collected here
inspect indigenous settlement patterns in North America for
pre-European examples of sustainable urbanism that is, in Sieverts’s
terms, “in-between” or decentered. Edited and annotated by Matthew
Stadler. $30, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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no. 1 by M Blash
no. 1 is the first in a series of three books by film-maker M Blash. It combines writing, drawing,
photography and film stills. M writes: "no. 1 is a diary of my first few days back in New York City
after living in my hometown of Portland, Oregon, for four years. The book
documents my emergence into a city I knew well at one time, but that now reads
like a specter of my childhood" no.
2 and no. 3, also by M.
Blash, are forthcoming from Publication Studio. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Newspace Center for Photography Exhibitions 2002-2011 by Newspace NEWSPACE catalog features a selection of work exhibited at Newspace Center for Photography in the years 2002 - 2011. Published for the celebration of their anniversary, the catalog represents the large scope of work shown at Newspace, ranging from film to digital, abstract to representational. Newspace Center for Photography is a Portland based nonprofit providing gallery space, workshops and classes for photography. $40 soft cover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Summer Goals by Anne Parker Christie Maclean Summer Goals began as a blog by Anne Parker and Christie MacLean chronicling theirs and their friends' summertime adventures through photography. This book contains a selection of those photos, from a variety of contributors, as well as written lists of goals for the hot weather months. $28 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Passengers from the Absolute to the Relative by Sanela Jahić Sanela Jahić, an emerging Slovenian artist, has documented her work in Passengers from the Absolute to the Relative and discusses the boundaries and dynamics of contemporary painting practices in relation to her mechanical image-making machines. Featuring essays by Urška Jurman, Ida Hiršenfelder and Alen Ožbolt. $20 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Access To Tools: Publications From The Whole Earth Catalog by David Senior Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog 1968-1974 is David Senior's compilation of images from the Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand accompanied with a new essay by Senior, Bibliographer at MoMA Library. "The Whole Earth Catalog functions as an evaluation and access device. With it, the user should know better what is worth getting and where and how to do the getting." -Whole Earth Catalog $22, soft cover; $10, DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Wooden Leg Editions |
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Sentences on Sentences on Paragraphs on Paragraphs by Lisa Radon Lisa Radon's new book, Sentences on Sentences on Paragraphs on Paragraphs, interrogates the source of our compulsion to read and write. Densely layered text in Radon's own handwriting pushes the limits of legibility and meaning, simultaneously presenting the written word as object. The books launch corresponded with Radon's curated exhibition Reading.Writing. at Portland's galleryHOMELAND including work by Publication Studio authors Sam Korman, Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen, and Justin Bland along with many other artists and writers. $16 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Salem Singers by Tom Greenwood The Salem Singers by artist and musician, Tom Greenwood, is an epic visual testimony that traces three generations of a family over the course of a century as they make their way from Russia to New York to California. Marion Curie helped Greenwood create the project and edit the film for The Salem Singers. Seven hundred fifty pages of images follow the clan of wandering troubadours through the great depression, suburbia, the American counterculture, love, divorce, murder and loneliness. A monumental account of lives caught in the currents of history. Greenwood says of The Salem Singers, "My work as a musician has been informed by abstraction, repetition and disintegration, ideas more common in visual mediums ... " $300 package including book, print, and dvd. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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SETUP #1 by SETUP Magazine This inaugural issue of SETUP features new work
by Lisa Robertson, Yuhnee Min and Robert Linsley, Eyal Weizman and
Carson Chan, Patrick Cruz and Charlie Satterlee, Mark Neufeld, Myfanwy
Macleod, Emma LaMorte, Amy Zion, and David McGuire. $12 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Stand On This Picnic Bench And Look North by Sam Lohmann Portland poet and editor of Peaches and Bats, Sam Lohmann, gives us a new book, Stand On This Picnic Bench and Look North. This collection of Lohmann's poetry delves into the language of landscapes – urban, rural, and domestic – that is unavoidably entangled in memory. "Americans think all landscape is narrative," and Lohmann indulges this cultural inclination with surprising effects and implications. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Windfall Alphabet by Gretchen Bennett
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![A User's Guide to [Demanding] the Impossible](http://tatlin.com/psvancouver/user's%20guide%20cover.jpg "A User's Guide to [Demanding] the Impossible")
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A User's Guide to [Demanding] the Impossible by Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination A User's Guide to [Demanding] the Impossible is "a brief introduction to strategies and stories of art activism throughout history, from Sylvia Pankhurst to Dada, Gustav Courbet to Electric Disturbance Theatre." This small, attractively-illustrated volume was created by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, a London-based collective, in an atmosphere of cuts to public programs and a resulting nationwide wave of protests. $7 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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The True Levellers Standard Advanced by Gerrard Winstanley The True Levellers Standard Advanced is the 1649 manifesto of a proto-anarchist group known as The Diggers, who occupied and cultivated waste land in Surrey as a protest against the accelerating enclosures and in an effort to feed some of the landless poor of England. This edition is set in a typeface appropriate to the period of its original publication, and is pleasingly pocket-sized for convenient transportation to the site of your next impromptu community garden. $5.00 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Natural Progress by Ben Jonson Natural Progress is a poem by English Renaissance poet Ben Jonson, in a new setting by PS Vancouver's Kate Noble. The original work is paired with archival photographs of department stores, grocery stores and other retailers around Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. By appearing in conjunction with these photographs, Jonson's poem is interpreted as thoughtful commentary on commodity fetishism.
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Re-Reading the Riot Act: Cycles One through Five by leannej This book is an extension of a performance by leannej, originally presented at the Waldorf Hotel on the night of Vancouver's 2011 Stanley Cup Riot. Five stories intertwine to present an account of protest and resistance on a personal, as well as historic scale. Co-published with UNIT/PITT Projects. $15 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Burnside: A Community by Kathleen Ryan Burnside: A Community is a "photographic history of Portland's skid row," published by Portland photographer, Kathleen Ryan, in 1979. This striking series of photographs, text, and maps reveals the stagnation and flux in Portland's Old Town Chinatown neighborhood. Ryan's photography encompasses the homeless, Chinese, Japanese, and Native-American communities that called downtown Burnside their home along with the shelters, strip clubs, bars, and businesses that comprised the skid row landscape. As part of the Dill Pickle Club's PDX Re-Print series, this edition includes a new introduction by Street Roots editor Israel Bayer. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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It Must Be As Tall As a Lighthouse by Tabatha Southey & Will Alsop It Must Be As Tall As a Lighthouse is a valentine that writer Tabatha Southey wrote to her son when her son was a small boy. She first read it to him as part of a Valentine's Day celebration at his grade school. Since then, his son has grown up; and the valentine has become a book, with design and illustrations by architect Will Alsop. $20, softcover This item originated from: The Book Bakery |
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Selected Business Correspondence by Andrew Kaufman For years, writer Andrew Kaufman has been buying vintage business letters from antique fairs and liquidation auctions. Selected Business Correspondence collects the best and most bizarre of these letters. Kaufman swears that they are authentic, and that he has not simply typewritten short, smart stories onto blank business letterhead. He swears. $40, softcover This item originated from: The Book Bakery |
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Why We Fight > Quran Neck by Pasha Malla Why We Fight > Why Fight the War > Why the Fighting Force > Why Fight Fire > Why Fight the Firepower > Why Fight the Power of Fire > Why Beautiful Wants War > Why, is it a good war? > Because there is a Just War > Because it is Just a War > Because of this War > Because of her Neck > Neck of the Quran > Quran Neck. Between 1942 and 1945, filmmaker Frank Capra filmed Why We Fight,
a series of propaganda films, for the United States Government. In
2011, writer Pasha Malla transcribed the final film of Capra's series.
He fed the transcription into Google Translate, changing it from English
into French, then from French into Arabic, then from Arabic into
German. After many translations, he changed the transcription back into
English, then edited it. Why We Fight > Quran Neck features
the original transcription on the left page, and the cut-up translation
on the right. The book is illustrated with pseudo-propaganda posters by
artist Aaron Scholl. $20, softcover This item originated from: The Book Bakery |
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the still night air by Mitzi Pederson In collaboration with Seattle's Open Satellite Productions, Publication Studio presents the catalog for Mitzi Pederson's exhibition the still night air, which showed from February - March 2011 at Open Satellite. From the Open Satellite website: "Glitter is applied to the broken edges of concrete blocks. Scrap-ends of two-by-four rest rest on mirrored paper. Long square wood dowels coated with black paint, silver leaf and glittered black sand are suspended from the ceiling … On site, Pederson altered, combined, and situated the materials, letting the exploration of each component's inherent physical properties and the unique architectural elements of the gallery space influence the final form of the work." Mitzi Pederson is an artist living in Berlin. $35 softcover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A Bachelor's Cupboard by A. Lyman Phillips #3 in the Everyday Library series. A Bachelor's Cupboard is the ultimate domestic guide for every independent bachelor, originally published in 1906. Includes many useful recipes, lists of essentials and housekeeping tips under a variety of chapter headings such as "Bachelor Etiquette," "A Chat on Cheese" and "How a Man May Valet Himself." Bound in unfinished chipboard covers. $15 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Pluto Square Pluto by Tara Jane ONeil Portland musician and artist Tara Jane ONeil compiled her drawings for Pluto Square Pluto, which much like her music, addresses the desire to transcend pedestrian experience through art and nature. Human figures spill into patterns of leaves, explode into rainbows, and tread the fuzzy line between the literal and the abstract. TJO is well known for her frequent collaborations with a variety of artists, musicians, dancers, and film-makers including Phil Elverum (The Microphones, Mount Eerie), Michael Hurley, Mirah, Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker), and many more. Her most recent album, A Ways Away, is available through the seminal Northwest record label, K Records. A limited tour-edition of Pluto Square Pluto includes a vellum book jacket with a stamp designed by TJO. $40 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Wanting is Easier Than Having by Debra Baxter Wanting is Easier Than Having is a collaboration between the artist Debra Baxter and a group of writers who explore visually and poetically the space between wanting and having. While much of Baxter's past work has addressed longing, her new work delves into how longing can become strangely comfortable. The work and the poetry in this book is about finding strength in uncomfortable moments and addressing the dichotomy of simultaneous success and failure, while also exploring Baxter's continued passion for rocks, minerals, and the seductive power of objects. $35 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: |
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Unstable Ground by UNIT/PITT Projects Unstable Ground is the work of six artists: Robin Cameron, Sarah Ciurysek, Kate Davis, Emily Jones, Dan Siney and artist-curator Andrea Pinheiro, addressing notions of instability through printed material. The book accompanied an exhibition at Vancouver's UNIT/PITT Projects. Through interviews, excerpts from Kafka, documents of earthquake and seismic activity, discussions of the upheaval in publishing, and descriptions of seizures, this book shows the potential of a book to be both bridge and rupture. $20 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha by Matthew Stadler A murder mystery set in the storied mountain city of Guanajuato, Mexico, by the author of Allan Stein and Landscape: Memory. When a wealthy and respected woman of the people is found dead on a remote mountain hillside, an unlikely young photographer is thrust into the cross-hairs of American money and Mexican politics. Moving swiftly from lavish dinners to seedy bars, Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha brings the genre formalism and precision of a John Le Carré novel to bear on "the mongrel dynamism, the deluded optimism of 21st century neo-liberal politics." It is available in our hand-made Jank Edition by PS, in an attractive PSEBM edition (suitable for bookstores) designed and produced by Vladimir Verano of Third Place Press, Seattle, WA (with cover designed by David Knowles), or as an eBook. $19, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A River Story (PS/EBM Edition, Charles Krafft cover) by Anna Odessa Linzer This is a special Espresso Book Machine (EBM) edition of Anna Odessa Linzer's novel, A River Story. The cover art is by Charles Krafft, and the book is printed and bound on an EBM by Vladimir Verano at Third Place Press in Lake Forest Park, WA. American Book Award-winner Anna Odessa Linzer's new novel tells the story of Fish Town, a self-invented community that took root along the banks of the north fork of the Skagit River, near La Conner, Washington. The story is told by a young woman named Rose, recollecting her childhood, and an older man, Leo, recalling his late-in-life romance with both the place and the people of Fish Town. Anna Odessa Linzer is a poet, prose-writer, and long-distance cold-water swimmer. Her first novel, Ghost Dancing was published by Picador USA.
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A River Story (PS/EBM Edition, Eli Hansen cover) by Anna Odessa Linzer This is a special Espresso Book Machine (EBM) edition of Anna Odessa Linzer's novel, A River Story. The cover art is by Eli Hansen, and the book is printed and bound on an EBM by Vladimir Verano at Third Place Press in Lake Forest Park, WA. American Book Award-winner Anna Odessa Linzer's new novel tells the story of Fish Town, a self-invented community that took root along the banks of the north fork of the Skagit River, near La Conner, Washington. The story is told by a young woman named Rose, recollecting her childhood, and an older man, Leo, recalling his late-in-life romance with both the place and the people of Fish Town. Anna Odessa Linzer is a poet, prose-writer, and long-distance cold-water swimmer. Her first novel, Ghost Dancing was published by Picador USA.
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Esophagus Now by Chris von Szombathy Esophagus Now is a personal, synaesthesiac journey through highly individual meanings attached to common objects: in this case, a burger, coke and hot dog linked through cathexis to mystical asceticism, Archie comics, and a Kraftwerk discography. Illustrated with the author's own paintings, this disarming book is the work of Vancouver-based artist and musician Chris von Szombathy, co-published with UNIT/PITT Projects. $15 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Hit the North by Victoria Haven Hit the North is Seattle artist Victoria Haven's first full book. As much an expansion of her studio practice as it is a document of her work, the heavily illustrated book features an essay by Claire Dederer. Hit the North is available in both a plain edition and a signed and numbered limited artist's edition. The book was designed by David Knowles and includes both B/W and color images. Production of this book was supported by Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, and PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, Ore. Victoria Haven attended Goldsmith's College, London, and is a past winner of the Betty Bowen Award and the Stranger Genius Award. For each copy of the limited artist's edition she prepared five unique "gampi paper" pages and one unique Gortex assemblage, all perfect bound into each book.
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Coolsurf Vol. 1 by Collasus Collasus or the Office of Collaborative Sustainability is a collective of young architects, planners, sculptors, painters, web designers, graphic designers, and farmers. $22 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Strong Man by Matt Briggs Matt Briggs follows up his 2004 American Book Award-winning novel, Shoot the Buffalo, with the story of Ben Wallace, a hospital lab tech who joins the Army reserve as a way to slight his father, a Vietnam-era draft dodger. When Ben is called up for Operation Desert Shield, the first Gulf War, he realizes he wants to experience what his grandfather has called "the enlightenment of war." $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Hyde Park Apartments by Keith Wilson Hyde Park Apartments is a visual taxonomy of an Austin, Texas, neighborhood (Hyde Park) as seen through its apartment buildings. Composed of 95 full-color photographs by San Francisco- and Austin-based filmmaker Keith Wilson, this contrapuntal sequence juxtaposes the buildings' fanciful names with their quotidian appearance. $40, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Catalogue of Variable Essence by Ashby Collinson and Dana Dart-McLean Catalogue of Variable Essence is a collaboration between Portland, Ore., artists Dana Dart-McLean and Ashby Lee Collinson.
A combination of prose fragments, poetry, and drawing, each copy in the
edition of 10 contains two original paintings by Dana Dart-McLean. $330, limited edition softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Round Up by Ari Marcopoulos Ari Marcopoulos assembled this suite of 99 photographs, an occasional record of the people and days in his life, circa 2006-2007. "This is my language," Marcopoulos says of these impulsive, frank, and deftly composed images. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Lloyd Reynolds, A Life of Forms in Art by the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College Publication Studio is proud to present the catalog for the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery's exhibition Lloyd Reynolds, A Life of Forms in Art. On view from April 5 to June 12, 2011, this is the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of renowned Oregon calligrapher, visual artist, Reed College professor, and humanist Lloyd Reynolds (1902-1978). The exhibition includes the finest examples of Reynolds’ calligraphy, in addition to his etchings, wood block prints, drawings, puppets, books, graphic design, and hand-made studio implements. The exhibition also features rare films and photographs of Reynolds at work. For more info and gallery hours visit www.reed.edu/gallery $40 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Country War Songs by Susanna Browne Vancouver-based artist and country music fan Susanna Browne has compiled a collection of song lyrics written by the stars of contemporary country music since September 11, 2001. The thirty songs presented in this volume vary in theme from anger and retaliation, to sorrow and loss, to criticism and calls for peace. This collection provides a record and a unique view of a nation's artists processing a tragedy through popular culture and music, which is at one problematic and comforting, heartfelt and disturbing. $24 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Public Access: 1999 & Beyond by Weekend Leisure Public Access: 1999 & Beyond documents an artists' television project, curated by Weekend Leisure. Employing an overarching theme of "science fiction", the five participants (Angus Ferguson, Kaitlin Fontana & Nicole Passmore, Emmet Hall, Nicolas Sassoon and Hank Bull & Patrick Ready) were asked to produce works that considered the do-it-yourself aesthetic and lack of resources of public access television, responding to its limitations as a medium of democratic creative expression. The resulting video pieces - whose concepts arise from interests in found footage, community theatre, fan fiction, local news broadcasting, primitive computer animation and space travel - bring together individuals from backgrounds both in and out of the contemporary art world, extending their creative potential beyond their respective fields. Contains scripts, animation frames, interviews and colour photographs. For more information about the project, please see http://publicaccess.helenpittgallery.org. $25 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Public Access: 1999 & Beyond (VHS edition) by Weekend Leisure The Public Access: 1999 & Beyond VHS edition provides collectors with an attractively packaged media artifact, containing all of the video from the original project (which can be viewed online at http://publicaccess.helenpittgallery.org), bonus trailers and extras, AND the Public Access: 1999 & Beyond book, which is a valuable addition to any culturally sophisticated library. That's right - a VHS containing video that you can download for free, and bonus extras that will give you a great reason to drop in on your relatives or neighbours that still have a working VCR, along with the book, for only five dollars more than the book itself! This is an opportunity you can't pass up - take a step into the future and back to the 1990s all at once! $30 This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Public Access by David Horvitz and Ed Steck Public Access is an art project produced by David Horvitz in late December 2010 and early January 2011. For roughly two weeks, he drove along California's coast from the Mexican border up through the Oregon border. Along the way, he stopped and took pictures of himself looking out at the beach and other scenic vantage points, his stance recalling the iconic romantic painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich from 1818 and Bas Jan Ader's 1971 Farewell to Faraway Friends. He then uploaded these photographs to the Wikipedia entries for these locations, adding new images or replacing existent images. This action produced a flurry of discussion amongst the Wikipedia community, as its members tried to figure out his identity and the purpose of the photos. Many of the original photos were cropped or deleted entirely. Graphic designer Eric Nylund designed the publication, which includes a text written by Ed Steck. This was made for the exhibition "As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration" at SF Camerawork in San Francisco. softcover $22; DRM-free ebook $10 This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Voices of Portland by Christine Ermenc In 1976, Christine Ermenc embarked on a mission to document Portland's oral history through extensive interviews with any ordinary Portlander willing to share their experience of the city with a eager young woman with a tape recorder. Voices of Portland contains candid tales of covered wagons, anecdotes from the rowdy prohibition-era waterfront, and micro-histories of Portland's many neighborhoods, all transcribed from hours of conversation on tape 35 years ago. These voices are given new breath in this edition, part of the Dill Pickle Club's PDX-Reprint series, and includes a new introduction by Rozzell Medina. $15 softcover;$10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Signs and Symbols by Justin Bland; photos by Chuen-Huei Yang The primary character in Vladimir Nabokov's 1946 short story, Signs and Symbols, suffers from a condition called referential mania, which causes him to believe that "everything happening around him is a veiled reference to his personality and existence." In much the same spirit, these photographs by young Taiwanese photographer, Chuen-Huei Yang, are presented to consider how ordinary objects communicate with us. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Twenty-Seven Installations by Portland Center for the Visual Arts Twenty-Seven Installations chronicles the history of Portland Center for the Visual Arts (PCVA), Portland’s first contemporary art center. From 1972-1987, PCVA hosted exhibitions, lectures, music performances and video screenings from artists with national standing, alongside a burgeoning Portland arts community. Many pioneering artists, including Richard Serra, Vito Acconci, Alice Aycock, Donald Judd and Sol Lewitt had some of their first shows at PCVA, helping launch their professional careers. PCVA was soon emulated by other centers around the country, providing a model of a multidisciplinary arts center focused on avant-garde, non-commercial and cutting edge work. Reprinted by Publication Studio, the new edition features a new cover and a preface by Lisa Radon. $35 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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California Film: 1996 by Carter California Film: 1996 is New York-based artist Carter's storyboard for an early film project featuring a "fake person," a "furry person." and a chocolate ice cream bar, among other things. Laid out in Polaroids and post-it notes, the storyboard is also captioned by Carter, who created this book in September, 2009, for the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art's Time Based Art festival (TBA). Printed in digital color. $40, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera In Three Acts, At Once by Michael Turner This limited print edition is a re-interpretation of three films about the Rolling Stones -- Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter, and Cocksucker Blues -- as acts in a Wagnerian epic. Three text panels, as presented in the installation of the same name at the Waldorf Hotel and UNIT/PITT Projects in April 2011, are accompanied by two Publication Studio titles: Free Concert by Michael Turner and Rock Lore by Allison Collins. $300 This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Free Concert by Michael Turner This modest, densely illustrated volume is a narrative, using the voices of narrators who are not only unreliable but apparently unaware of the nature of events around them; the words spoken from the stage during the Rolling Stones' set at Altamont Speedway in 1969 are accompanied by a sequence of full-page images. Co-published with UNIT/PITT Projects, this book was published to accompany Michael Turner's curatorial project The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera In Three Acts, At Once. $15 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Rock Lore: Acts Of Persuasion And Perversion by Allison Collins A companion volume of sorts to Michael Turner's Free Concert, this book is a critical essay with reproductions of Turner's The Rolling Stones Trilogy: An Inadvertent Opera In Three Acts, At Once, a curatorial project presented by UNIT/PITT at Vancouver's Waldorf Hotel in April 2011. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions of text panels, this critical essay is not only about the recontextualization of three films about the Rolling Stones (Sympathy For The Devil, Gimme Shelter and Cocksucker Blues), but a dissection of the underpinnings of rock and roll heroism. $10 softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Rubbings from the Rose City by Christopher Gossett Rubbings from the Rose City documents Portland, OR, through one-of-a-kind handmade etchings of building façades, gravestones, street signs, manhole covers and more. Self published by Christopher Gossett in 1983, the book provides a unique snapshot of the city and its many landmarks. This edition, produced as part of the Portland-based Dill Pickle Club's PDX-Reprint series, contains a new introduction by Randy Gragg, editor of Portland Monthly. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Special Effects: Advances in Neurology by Neil Marcus More than a document of the early days of the disability rights movement, Neil Marcus' collection Special Effects: Advances in Neurology is also a window into California zine culture of the 1980s. Art in revolution: social justice, the human growth movement, art in the everyday. From flourishing dystopia to speech storms, Neil documents living artfully in Berkeley, California, and in Disability Country. Publication Studio is proud to present this collection of reprinted documents with a new forward by Melanie Yergeau and an interview by Esther Ehrlich. $15 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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From the Golden West Notebook by Jason Morris, Jesse Schlessinger, and Jason Grabowski Inspired by the ACE Double books of the fifties, in which genre novels (especially Westerns and Science Fiction) were paired, From the Golden West Notebook brings together Jason Morris’ poetry and the first section of Thoreau's Walden, the chapter on “Economy.” Jason Morris’ serial poem (also called “From the Golden West Notebook”) follows a character named “I” through a hallucinogenic western landscape populated by the ghosts of Melville, Spicer, Thoreau, and the distressed magnetic reels of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes. Thoreau’s account begins on July 4th, 1845, when he moved into the cabin he built. In the “Economy” section, he details the building of the cabin and lists his costs. From the Golden West Notebook is bound so the two writings mirror one another, tête-bêche (head to toe), and features the artwork of Jason Grabowski and Jesse Schlessinger. $15 Softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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How Other People See Me by Elizabeth Jaeger How Other People See Me is a book of close up portraits by artist Elizabeth Jaeger. It’s weighty sculptural form contains a collection of gazes expressing surprise, joy, anger, annoyance, and boredom; a catalog of
unperformed feelings. Post-Kodak-moment-candor captured in secret reveals the person behind the subject. $25 Softcover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Ballad of the Sad Young Men by Philip Charles Iosca This debut collection of poems by Philip Charles Iosca draws inspiration from Roberta Flack, among many others. In his introduction Matthew Dickman also finds echoes of Joe Brainard and Wallace Stevens. Ballad of the Sad Young Men will be launched at a special "all black lunch," our next Publisher's Lunch, February 15, 2011. For tickets see events. $17, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A History of New York by Matt Keegan Artist Matt Keegan used Ric Burns's PBS documentary, New York, as the foundation for this dense visual history of New York City. The film was billed as a "seven-part, 14 ½ hour television event [that] explores New York City’s rich history as the premier laboratory of modern life. A sweeping narrative covering nearly 400 years and 400 square miles..." The same chronology and stories are found within Keegan's image-based iteration, but without Burns's omniscient narrator. Readers make their way though four centuries of New York City history with only themselves and their experience as guides. Printed in digital color and black-and-white. $35 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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This Is The Same Hillside by Shawn Creeden Part vision quest, part picture book, part poetry, This Is The Same Hillside is a document of Shawn Creeden's adventures while under the influence of psychedelic mushrooms. His highly personal graphic scrawl keeps the eye lingering on the page while suggesting a deeper psychological world just beneath the surface. With a forward by Joel Statz. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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How to Look at a Vancouver Special by Keith Higgins In this slim, amply illustrated volume, Vancouver, BC, urbanist Keith Higgins provides a natural history and typology of the "Vancouver Special," a housing type that proliferated from the 1960s through the mid-1980s. Distilled from Higgins's vast online archive, the book ultimately recommends that we go outside and wander the streets of Vancouver to see these very special houses with our own eyes. With 24 black & white photographs. $9, softcover; $5, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Billy Budd, Sailor (Decktowel/PS Edition) by Herman Melville This unlikely collaboration between a textile company and a publishing house emerged from a shared love of reading on the beach. With a new introduction by Aaron Peck, Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor sits in a corner pocket of the most incredible towel you will ever use, large enough to accommodate several beach readers. $200, towel and book This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Lexicon (from Atlas of the Conflict) by Malkit Shoshan Israeli architect Malkit Shoshan restores lost histories by mapping the geography of conflicts in the Middle East since 1948. Her Atlas of the Conflict, to be published in Fall 2010 by 010 Uitgeverij (Rotterdam, Netherlands), documents the ways that urban planning and architecture have been used to carry out oppressive political agendas. In June 2010 Shoshan came to Portland, Ore., for a Publication Studio dinner and discussion of her work. On that occasion we printed a full-color limited edition of the "Lexicon" of her book, of which we have 10 copies remaining (edition of 24).
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Accumulations by Christine Shan Shan Hou Christine Shan Shan Hou is a poet and arts writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. This collection of poems, her first, is accompanied by eight pen and ink-wash drawings by Hannah Rawe. Chinese poet Zhang Er says of this work, "East and West melt as these pages evolve. Indeed, 'Elasticity is delicious.'" $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Cake Part by Stacy Doris Stacy Doris's The Cake Part is a fantastic redeployment of banned pamphlets from the time of the French Revolution in the form of a book-length poem. Long kept hidden because of their transgressive content, these pamphlets were stored in a secret archive at the Bibilothèque nationale called the enfer (hell). Highly pornographic and formally promiscuous, The Cake Part is an eruption of all the repressed joy and terror of that 18th century revolution, back into our time, into the 21st century. Set in the typography of Web 2.0, the design of this book searches for the modern day equivalents of these banned pamphlets in the virtual networks which aid and abet current revolutionary movements. $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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event statements by Joseph Redwood-Martinez In September of 2009 Joseph Redwood-Martinez began subscribing to e-flux, the art world email digest that reaches tens of thousands of institutions and individuals on a thrice daily basis. To make sense of the sudden deluge of information Redwood-Martinez began selectively reconfiguring pieces of each press release into a body of "sought poetry". From the author's introduction: "As a poetic intervention, event statements is an entirely subjective mapping of the archive by way of core samples and screen shots. The project is without beginning or end, it spills out from the milieu, acting poetically as a rhizome – ceaselessly establishing connections and complicating a worldview written by way of press release." $20 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Hello Now from Everywhere by Veronica De Jesus Hello Now from Everywhere is a book of memorial drawings selected from an ongoing series. Over the past four years Oakland visual artist, Veronica De Jesus, has been making memorial drawings of the recently deceased and installing them in the window of Dog-Eared Books in San Francisco. Her style is lively and eclectic and her subject choices are idiosyncratic: her own friends along with pop icons like Laura Branigan and Louise Bourgeois. Regardless of their fame, everyone is celebrated for their uniqueness. Also included is an intimate essay by Veronica's wife, Regina Clarkinia. $26, B/W softcover with color dust jacket. This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Stay Time: A Year of Writing with Fourteen30 Contemporary by John Motley Stay Time collects eight critical essays by arts writer John Motley in collaboration with the Portland, Oregon-based gallery Fourteen30 Contemporary, each of which corresponds to an exhibition from the gallery's 2009-2010 programming. Originally published as a series of limited edition broadsides, available only at the gallery, these essays examine the work of emerging artists from Portland, Los Angeles, and beyond, while enacting a strategy to enrich a community's discourse on contemporary art. With a forward by Stephanie Snyder, curator and director of the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College. $22, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Fieldguided by Lisa Schonberg In this book, entomologist Lisa Schonberg presents her research from summer 2010, through drawings, text, and sound recordings. The book includes 9 tipped-in newsprint "plates" and a free download of eleven field recordings that is also available here. Lisa studied neotropical entomology at The Evergreen State University in Olympia, Washington. She is a drummer and played with the bands The Strangers, Kickball, Explode Into Colors, and STLS, among others. Her previous book, The DIY Guide to Drums, is available here. .
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Nature Study On Lonesome Island by Azsa West The nature that Portland, Ore., artist Azsa West studies in these detailed pencil drawings is equal parts line and erasure, observation and distraction, abstraction and figuration. It might be the nature of drawing, or of pencil and paper. Regardless, it is thoughtful, generous, and enchanting. $25, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A Treatise On Domestic Economy by Catharine Beecher #2 in the Everyday Library series. This is a seminal work in the field of domestic economy and domestic labour from educational reformer Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe; it was intended to provide information essential to the operation of a household, covering subjects such as food, medicine, the organization of interior space, accounting, and the manufacturing of essentials such as lye for the benefit of young women. Bound in unfinished chipboard covers. $15, softcover. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture by Lisa Robertson Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture is Canadian poet Lisa Robertson’s lyrical document of a decade or so of transformations in her then-home town of Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Originally published by Clear Cut Press in 2004, we offer it in an especially janky Jank Edition, chopped, cut, abraded, but with sturdy spine and every word legible, in bright yellow file-folder covers. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Thrasher Fanzine by Sam Korman and Israel Lund Thrasher Fanzine is Israel Lund and Sam Korman's celebration of skateboarding culture and the renowned skating publication Thrasher Magazine. Mining old back issues from used bookstores and adolescent bedrooms, Korman and Lund assemble a greatest hits collection of Thrasher's prestigious thirty year publishing history. $10, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Some, But Not All, of My Clothes (Artist Edition) by Israel Lund As a continuation of his book Some, But Not All, of My Clothes,
Israel Lund has made 3 unique, one color monoprints that are only on
sale through Publication Studio. Price includes signed print and a copy
of his book. Contact Publication Studio for higher res images. Please specify desired print when ordering. $120 This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Complicity (stories) by Sarah Lippek The stories in this debut collection by Sarah Lippek are disturbing and beautiful. Completely assured and idiosyncratic, Lippek's language compels her characters to actions that would otherwise be unthinkable. Sarah Lippek is a law student in Seattle, Wash. $18, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Tuleyome by Lawrence Rinder and Colter Jacobsen Tuleyome is Lawrence Rinder's new long fiction about two men, Quincy and Frodo, walking the railroad tracks from San Rafael, CA, to Ukiah, CA. Our Jank Edition, designed by David Knowles, features three dozen full color photographs taken along the route by Lawrence Rinder and artist Colter Jacobsen. The authors will donate their proceeds from the book to the Tuleyome ecological preservation and restoration project. $22, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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A Classroom Reader by Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen These essays are adapted from four lectures delivered inside Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen's exhibition, "The Classroom," at PDX Contemporary Art gallery, in Portland, Ore., during July of 2010. The exhibition featured a collection of pedagogical props which the lecturers — Anne Marie Oliver, Sean Regan, Helen Reed, and Barry Sanders — used, or not, in their talks. A Classroom Reader is the physical trace of those public events: a meditation on education through the subjects of mediology, metaphor, gift-giving, transmission, tradition, death, and the imagination. It features an introduction by the artists and a dozen B/W images of instructional illustrations drawn by each of the four speakers. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Notes from a Young Curator by Sam Korman Car Hole was a gallery operated out of the curator, Sam Korman's garage. From December 2009 - December 2010, Car Hole presented twelve exhibitions with forty-two different artists. Accompanying each show, Korman distributed photocopied catalogs. In Notes from a Young Curator, Korman collects all of those texts together with a new introduction. The book maps topics from critical theory to skateboarding, video games and literature, the strands that connected a life lived in basements. $25, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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El gato eficaz / Deathcats by Luisa Valenzuela This is the first full English translation of Luisa Valenzuela's early book, El gato eficaz, written across two continents, North and South America, over two tumultuous years, 1969 - 70. Richly allegorical and haunting, this important text (which the author has called her "breakout book") has been translated by Jonathan Tittler, a literature scholar at Rutgers University, and appears here en face with the original Spanish text in a Jank Edition co-published with the Gobshite Quarterly, LLC. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Some, But Not All, of My Clothes by Israel Lund Some, But Not All, of My Clothes is Portland artist Israel Lund's
collection of Xeroxed laundry that he occasionally issues in the form
of a zine. He created this perfect-bound edition for inclusion in
Publication Studio's "Portland Pavilion" at the 2009 Amsterdam
Biennale. The book can be bound in either green legal file-folder stock
or manila file-folder stock (the image to the left is of an interior
page). You can view a short video of the book here. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Spirit Of The Ghetto by Hutchins Hapgood #1 in the Everyday Library series, this often-neglected work examines life in the Jewish Quarter of Manhattan around 1900. Anarchist journalist Hutchins Hapgood chronicled, for an English-speaking non-Jewish readership, the cultural, social and economic life of a community mostly unknown outside of its own borders. This edition reproduces illustrations by Jacob Epstein from the original 1902 publication -- Epstein later emigrated to England, where he was a well-known sculptor in the Vorticist movement. Bound in a distinctive raw chipboard cover. 15.00 This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Business As Usual by Arnaud Desjardin Arnaud Desjardin has created a book suitable for both cynics and idealists. These graphically bold, rhetorically economical expressions of both outrage and resignation are ready for any occasion where "business as usual" prevails. 15.00 This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Revenge of the Decorated Pigs (limited edition) by Lawrence Rinder San Francisco artist, Colter Jacobsen, has made a limited edition series of covers for Lawrence Rinder’s Revenge of the Decorated Pigs.
Numbered and signed, these unique pieces (bound to the pages of
Rinder’s book), each come with a small tipped-in painting, also by Colter Jacobsen, also unique for each book. Copies are still available for $488. Your purchase is both an
investment in an accomplished young artist and a crucial investment in
our business, Publication Studio. Colter Jacobsen is represented by Corvi-Mora Gallery, London. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Revenge of the Decorated Pigs by Lawrence Rinder
Revenge of the Decorated Pigs is out of stock. Perhaps you would enjoy one of our other novels? Chloe Jarren's La Cucaracha is an entertaining "beach read," a murder mystery set in Mexico, by the Whiting Award-winning author of Allan Stein and The Sex Offender. The Strong Man is American Book Award-winner Matt Briggs's gripping new tale of a quiet Army reservist who is unexpectedly called up to Operation Desert Storm during the first Gulf War. Anna Odessa Linzer's A River Story tells the passionate, lyrical story of a young woman's life in the self-invented squatters' community of Fish Town, among hardworking fisherman and back-to-the-land hippies in Washington's Skagit River delta in the 1960s and 1970s. If art is your obsession, please consider Jank Editions' original artists books from such leading lights as Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, Ari Marcopoulos, Mina Totino, Ruby Sky Stiler, Walter Benjamin, and photographer Shawn Records. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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35 Images by Gil Blank / Book Eleven of The Odyssey translated by Matthew Stadler by Gil Blank and Matthew Stadler These 35 images from a remote webcam above the harbor of Portland, Maine, have been driven backwards through the history of photographic reproduction by artist Gil Blank. Blank laser-engraved the image data onto bricks of machined graphite, scanned the bricks, and then printed those files using ink jet. The ink jet prints were scanned and printed in silver gelatin; the silver gelatin prints were then followed by photogravure, and so on, proceeding backwards through historical photographic technologies. As each subsequent print is scanned from a previous generation, it reproduces all the material artifacts of its forebears and compounds them with its own, perpetuating the original image only at the cost of effacing it entirely. Asked to produce a suitable accompanying text, writer Matthew Stadler chose to translate parts of Book Eleven of The Odyssey, using a method developed by the artists Hadley + Maxwell. Taking seven English translations, from Alexander Pope to Richard Lattimore, he organized the books in chronological sequence and transcribed one word or phrase at a time from each, skipping words only when both word and exact grammatical placement were repeated.
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The Night Pharaoh by Rafael Oses
This epic poem by Rafael Oses
has been typeset by Cumbersome Multiples and illustrated with woodcuts by Portland
artist Daniel Duford. This limited edition of 100, printed and bound by
Publication Studio in August, 2010, includes an audio recording of Rafael Oses reading his poem and a limited-edition letterpress jacket by Tracy Schlapp of Cumbersome Multiples, who also designed the book. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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The Saddest Joke by Matteah Baim and Colter Jacobsen The Saddest Joke is a collection of correspondences (primarily through snail mail) between Matteah Baim and Colter Jacobsen over several years. Maybe they are sketches to help raise the spirits with a meditative chuckle. Or maybe its like if you found a sketchbook for a failed comic sketch, this would be that book. $25 softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Allone Co. Editions |
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Weekend Leisure Karaoke: List by Artist and List by Song (two volumes) by Weekend Leisure Weekend Leisure Karaoke: List by Artist and List by Song is a two-volume collection of found karaokesongs compiled by Weekend Leisure. Part artist book, part functioning karaoke catalogue, the book represents WL’s growing list of songs and original karaoke videos. The list is continually put to use in WL’s performances and as the group acquires new songs and produces new videos, Publication Studio will publish updated editions and variations to reflectthese changes. Weekend Leisure is a Vancouver-based artist collective made up of Curtis Grahauer, Pietro Sammarco, Christy Nyiri, Erich Gerl and friends. Since 2006, WL has been crafting karaoke videos, performing live, DJing karaoke, and recently they began producing a local cable network television programme. $20, two-volume softcover. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Touched by an Email by Alex Felton Alex Felton created Touched by an Email: Heartwarming Stories from the Internet in October, 2009, for the Amsterdam Biennale. It collects recent work by the artist, to which he "added some collages and quotes to give it some context, some train of thought. It's also laid out to direct the viewer through that strong of associations from our romance with the computer to the possibilities and follies of augmented perception and back to more attempts to represent the magic of current technology (with a break in the middle for a snack pizza and beer)." $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Inherited & Borrowed Types by Ruby Sky Stiler This book collects 22 photographic and textual mash-ups that fragment and reweave pages of text and images. Overlaid with ghostly profiles and other iconography, the resulting page-sized wall-hangings display the sort of multifarious, patterned relationships that obtain between word and image, past and present. All 22 are reproduced in full-size, front and back, in full-color images printed by Dynagraphic of Portland, Ore.. Ruby Sky Stiler is a Brooklyn, NY-based artist. Inherited & Borrowed Types was designed by Jiminie Ha and developed by Stiler and Publication Studio in collaboration with the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art for their exhibition "Human Being," curated by Kristan Kennedy.
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Owner of This World by Shawn Records Owner of This World is a book of photographs made by Shawn Records during the four months that his son, Max Records, spent working as an actor on the set of Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze's film adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic. Max was nine-years old at the time, and neither he nor his family had been involved in the film industry before. Records, the elder, is convinced that the book will disappoint anyone looking for insight into the film or the filmmakers and offers it as a manifestation of his own anxieties; a collection of fears and reassurances, upon letting his son out into a world that is beyond his control. Interior page samples are: 1 (page 2), 2 (page 6), 3 (page 26), 4 (page 61)$40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Shoot The Buffalo by Matt Briggs Shoot The Buffalo is Matt Briggs's American
Book Award-winning novel about the slow undoing of a working class
hippy family in the 1970s and '80s. Originally published by Clear Cut
Press, it is available now in a Jank Edition. $20, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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xyxx by Kimberly Warner and David McLaughlin xyxx is a book of iPhone photographs by Kimberly Warner and David McLaughlin, a "living visual, open ended love letter between two slightly twisted lovers who would rather take pictures with their phones than talk on them." xyxx is limited to images shot and manipulated with the iPhone and iPhone apps only. No computers. No photoshop. "We started playing ping pong with snaps throughout our days via email whether we were half a world apart or walking next to each other in our neighborhood...an ever evolving game of tag with no rules or expectations other than to simply be present." The 200 page full-color book was printed by Digicraft, Portland, Ore., and bound and trimmed by Publication Studio in a two-volume launch edition of 20, signed and numbered.
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Haptic by Tegan Moore, Elspeth Pratt, Lorna Brown Haptic is a visual, written and tactile document of the work and process of two Vancouver sculptors, Tegan Moore and Elspeth Pratt, with a complex and provocative written contribution by Lorna Brown, and book design by Working Format. The term "haptic", referring to the sense of touch and act of
touching, is now familiar in the description of devices like smartphones
and touch-screens; in other words, the act of manipulating imaginary
objects by touching a surface. The sensory knowledge of the textures of
surfaces and the conveyance of subtle variations of meaning in gestures
are only provisionally available in these interfaces, and the trace of a
touch is meant to disappear the moment the screen is cleared or the
hardware rebooted. $20, softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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I Look Up, Volume One, 1997 to 2000 by Mina Totino Edited by Kathy Slade $35, softcover This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Alexander — Bell — Cooper — McCracken — Valentine (1971) by Edmonton Art Gallery In July 1971 the Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton, Alberta) and the Ace Gallery (Vancouver, BC, and Los Angeles, CA) published this catalog of new work offering "a close examination of the use of the colour black" by five Los Angelenos: Larry Bell, John McCracken, DeWain Valentine, Ron Cooper, and Peter Alexander. Publication Studio's facsimile edition was made with artist Stephen Lichty in June of 2010. $25, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Exhibition To Be Destroyed, Again by Helen Pitt Gallery This idiosyncratic but handsome volume, co-published with the Helen Pitt
Gallery in Vancouver, presents a collection of gig posters, exhibition
posters and other ephemera from the wild fusion of punk rock, new art,
performance and political activism that collided in the Helen Pitt/Unit
Pitt/P.I.G. gallery from 1979 to 1984. Many of the posters, which
include a U-J3RK5 gig poster and an advertisement for Attila Richard
Lukacs's first solo exhibition, are reproduced at their original size,
and lovingly bound for scholars and collectors alike.
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174 Birds by Sarah Meadows Portland artist Sarah Meadows found photographs of birds and hands. $25, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Affidavit by Jamie Hilder In 2008, Jamie Hilder, a Vancouver, BC, artist and critic was trained as a "Downtown Ambassador" by Genesis Security, a firm hired by that city's downtown merchants to make downtown public space more accommodating for their commercial needs. Hilder soon quit the program and kept his uniform so that he could assist people downtown in ways more to his liking, giving tourists information that the Business Improvement Association wouldn't want them to have: histories of illegal evictions, spectacularized aboriginalities, and civic policies aimed at removing visible poverty from the downtown core. He was arrested during his performance, and was later called as an expert witness when Pivot Legal Society, United Native Nations, and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users filed a Human Rights Tribunal complaint against Genesis and the Downtown Ambassadors. This is his affidavit. $15, softcover; $10 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Bookmachine |
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Scenes from a Hotel (volume one) by Joey Veltkamp Scenes From a Hotel is Seattle artist Joey Veltkamp's
ongoing series of ink and water drawings from Seattle's Sorrento Hotel.
Volume one focuses on some of the events in the hotel's new "Night
School" project, conceived and organized by Michael Hebb. $12, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Heather and Ivan Morison by Open Satellite Publications The second in Open Satellite's new publication series documents "Frost King," an original installation by Heather and Ivan Morison, curated by Eric Fredericksen at Open Satellite in Spring, 2010. This full-color catalog includes new fiction by Heather Morison, a photographic essay by Open Satellite director Yoko Ott, an essay by Eric Fredericksen, and an interview with the Morisons by Jen Graves, art critic at the weekly newspaper, The Stranger. The catalog is available from Open Satellite in a limited edition with an original frottage by the Morisons bound into the catalog (edition of 100, available here) or in a plain edition from Publication Studio. $30, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Four Books in July by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener Portland artist Sarah Faith Gottesdiener created this suite of four full-color books for an exhibition at Nationale. Gottesdiener writes, "I asked four inspirational women close to me/familiar with me/my art to give me instructions for living. I followed those instructions for one week, at four weeks, and as part of the display at Nationale I am making books inspired by their instructions..." The books comprise paintings, sketches, hand-written texts, and photographs of a ritual carried out by Gottesdiener and her friends in the woods of Oregon. (clockwise, from upper left): Outtakes from a Ritual, Freedom in Repetition, When there is No Map For the Mind, and Collection of Some Thoughts and Poses Pertaining to my Vulnerability/Collection of all Magic Objects Around or on My Person (this last book has two titles, one on front cover and one one on back). $65 softcover, set of four books. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Blush by Philip Iosca Blush is a 400-page book by Portland, Ore., artist Philip Iosca, comprising shifting saturations of pink. It can be read or browsed like a book or flipped through, like a flip book. It is large and heavy, like sculpture, colorful and planar, like a painting, plot-driven, like a novel, and pleasant to touch. The pages selected here are in sequence, but they occur in widely scattered parts of the book. A short video file, here, shows the book in motion. Blush is printed on glossy paper and bound in manila file-folders. $125, softcover This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Greatest Sips (launch edition) by Alex Brown and Evan George To celebrate the January 30, 2010 launch of our finest beer book ever, Greatest Sips, by Alex Brown and Evan George, Publication Studio printed, bound, and packed thirty unique copies in a sealed box that was shipped from Portland, Ore., to Los Angeles, Calif., and back again. To be unpacked under the watchful eye of registered guards in our Portland warehouse, these thirty copies will be stamped, numbered and signed by the Publication Studio printing and binding crew. Greatest Sips (launch edition) is limited to these thirty signed and numbered copies and is available for sale exclusively on this site. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Greatest Sips by Alex Brown and Evan George A lively and informed guide to buying fancy beer by the Los Angeles-based authors of the vegetarian food blog, Hot Knives. The book comes with a "radical Hot Knives bookmark," provided by the authors, with a URL for songs that "go well with the beers." $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Joy and Reffry by Roy McMakin and Jeffry Mitchell Joy and Reffry is a two-volume, full-color catalog documenting an art exhibition of the same name by Roy McMakin and Jeffry Mitchell,
co-published with Pulliam Gallery, Portland, Ore. Roy McMakin is an
artist and furniture designer. Jeffry Mitchell is an artist living in
Seattle, Wash. Fifteen copies were made and sold during the exhibition. $90, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Two Odes of Quiddity and Nil by Howard W. Robertson Two new poems for the New Year by Howard W. Robertson, author of Ode to certain interstates And Other Poems. "I wake to the river at dawn, and I feel a few million years young." $9, softcover; $5 DRM-free ebook This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Capitalism Inside an Organization by Pravin J. Jain Pravin J. Jain was an executive vice president at Enron International during the years of that company's greatest expansion and catastrophic collapse. In this long essay, first commissioned and published by Clear Cut Press in 2003, he offers a sobering and positive assessment of capitalism's destructive powers and suggests that progressive goals such as social equity, innovation, and better living standards are best pursued through an unsentimental embrace of capitalism, as it was theorized by Adam Smith in the 18th century. $9 softcover; $5 DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Convivium by Jessica Jackson Hutchins and Tom Fisher Convivium is a collaboration between visual artist Jessica Jackson Hutchins (who was recently selected for the 2010 Whitney Biennial) and poet Tom Fisher, comprising photographs of Hutchins's sculpture, texts written by Fisher, and fragments of other texts selected by Fisher and Hutchins. The book changes occasionally, as Hutchins and Fisher feel moved or find time to change it. (Some of the interior page images, below, are partial.) $40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Electric Aphorisms by John Roderick Electric Aphorisms is musician John Roderick's
narrative composed in 365 transmissions of 140 characters each. The
book (perfect-bound in distinctive sky blue, lavender, or rose file-folder stock) is
prefaced with an introduction by John Hodgman, composed similarly. John
Roderick also writes and plays music as The Long Winters. $15, softcover; $10, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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Meiro Koizumi by Open Satellite This is the first in a series of publications we are making with Open Satellite, a Bellevue, WA-based artist residency and gallery. Open Satellite hosts artists from around the world in one- to three-month residencies leading to exhibitions. The book documents Japanese artist Meiro Koizumi's exhibition, The Corner of Sweet and Bitter. With drawings from the artist's notebooks and new essays by Robin Held, chief curator and director of exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Jen Graves, visual art critic for The Stranger, and Yoko Ott, director of Open Satellite, the book also significantly expands the scholarship around Koizumi's work.
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Yoko + Moon by Sarah Faith Gottesdiener Yoko + Moon is Sarah Faith Gottesdiener's collection of ink and water drawings of Yoko Ono or of the moon. Sarah Faith Gottesdiener is an artist and musician who lives in Portland, Ore. $40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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F.W.P.C.Y. by Kristan Kennedy Portland-based artist Kristan Kennedy created F.W.P.C.Y. (meaning "For World Peace Castrate Yourself") with designer Rob Halverson for the 2009 Amsterdam Biennale. It presents her recent work in which newsprint is partially obscured under ink. $40, softcover. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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a pragmatic response to real circumstances by Anne Focke Anne Focke helped create Artist Trust, Bumbershoot, 1% for the arts, Arts Wire, and/or gallery, and myriad other tools for working artists. In this 2006 essay, originally commissioned and published by the back room, she recalls some of these projects and the habits of mind, mix of structure and openness, and rhythms of permanence and impermanence that mark the lives of artists and institutions. $9, softcover; $5, DRM-free ebook. This item originated from: Jank Editions |
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What We Are Learning by What We Are Learning For two years, What We Are Learning issued a monthly compendium of brief reports from several dozen friends, telling what each of them had learned recently. This book gathers their reports into a uniquely compelling narrative that displaces the drama of the individual with the pleasures of the collective. What We Are Learning is one of the most provocative and successful experiments in dispersed authorship that we have seen.
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untitled by Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson painted a mural on the side of our North Portland neighborhood grocery store, The Cherry Sprout. This book collects original studies for the mural, which the artists made by letter-pressing small sketches at Lark Press, also in North Portland, and then hand coloring thirty-one sets that we have bound in dark green file folder covers. Edition limited to thirty-one copies. OUT OF STOCK This item originated from: Jank Editions Out of stock, e-mail, or free reading commons |
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Notes for an Art School by Dexter Sinister A collection that was to appear in conjunction with projects alongside Manifesta6 before it was cancelled, Notes for an Art School was compiled by David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey who make up the design team Dexter Sinister.
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