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JAB6

JAB6, fall 1996, 32 pages, printed on the Solna at Center for Editions, SUNY Purchase, NY by BF.
The JAB6 cover was designed, the text handset, the images cut in linoleum and the whole printed letterpress by Jules Remedios-Faye in Sedro-Wooley, WA.

Table of Contents

• Interview with Steve McCaffery
—Johanna Drucker

• Anne Moeglin Response to Johanna Drucker

• The Art of Political Ephemera
—Johanna Drucker

• Dear JAB
—Jules Remedios-Faye

• Emily McVarish: Wards of Obsolescene
—Johanna Drucker

• NW Tour, Books Received / Brief Reviews, ETC.
—Brad Freeman

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Jules Remedios-Faye,

JAB6 cover, 1996

Interview with Steve McCaffery

JAB6

Interview with Steve McCaffery

JAB6

JAB7, spring 1997, 32 pages, printed on the Solna at Center for Editions, SUNY Purchase, NY by BF.
JAB7 cover depicts Clifton Meador by the Solna at SUNY Purchase, photo & design by BF.

Table of Contents

• Interview with Clifton Meador
—Brad Freeman

• John Eric Broaddus: A Fashioner of Books
—Renée Riese Hubert & Robert D. Hubert

• In the LIFE: Portrait of a Modern Sex-deviant (Finger in the Dyke Productions)
—reviewed by Sally Gardner

• JAB Book Pick
—ART THEORY MADE ME CRY: AN ANECDOTAL THEORY BOOK, 1995
—Lucy Soutter

• Feminism and the Book Arts at the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles—Alisa Scudamore

• Science Imagined: A Review
—Ruth McGurk

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Clif Meador with the Solna offset press, 1996

Center for Editions, SUNY Purchase

JAB7 cover, design & photo–BF

JAB7

"Feminism and the Book Arts

at the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles"

by Alisa Scudamore

In November 1973 the Woman’s Building of Los Angeles opened its doors to become the first institution dedicated to the creation of a “new art community built from the lives, feelings, and needs of women.” The quintessence of its founding was the Feminist Studio Workshop, an art program established by three prominent figures in the emerging women’s art movement: painter Judy Chicago, graphic designer Sheila de Bretteville, and art historian Arlene Raven. Under the tutelage of these three women and with the help of several other vital figures of feminism and art, hundreds of women were provided with the opportunity to define their own experience of female identity through the exploration of art.

BF–Presses I have known

JAB7 back cover

In the LIFE: Portrait of a Modern Sex-deviant

Finger in the Dyke Productions
review by Sally Gardner

JAB8

JAB8, fall 1997, 32 pages, printed on the Solna at Center for Editions, SUNY Purchase, NY by BF.
JAB8 cover designed by Phil Zimmermann

Table of Contents

• Ars Combinatoria and the Book
—Janet Zweig

• Flagrant Délit: The Books of Bernard Villers Edition Remorqueur
—Didier Matthieu

• Cosmological Wit: The Books of Ruth Laxson and Press 63+
—Pattie Belle Hastings

• Essential Aspects of Subculture Periodicals in the GDR and their Place in Cultural History
—Thomas Günther

• Profile / Interview: Cathy Courtney
—Johanna Drucker

• The Problem of Role Models: Contextualizing So Cal 1970’s FemArtBooks and the Matter with Contemporary Practice
—Laurel Beckman

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Phil Zimmermann

JAB8 cover,1997

"Ars Combinatoria and the Book"

by Janet Zweig

In mathematics, combinatorics is often described as “the art of counting.” The devices of this art are permutation, combination, and variation. For permutation, all the elements within a set are reshuffled, as in an anagram. For combination, some of the elements of the set are taken out to form a subset. Variations are permutations with repetitions allowed, opening the possibility of infinite incarnations. Outside of the realm of mathematics, there has always been something creatively compelling about combinatorics.

Phil Zimmermann

SUNY Purchase, 1997

Ruth Laxson at her studio, Atlanta, 1997

photo by Pattie Belle Hastings

"ESSENTIAL ASPECTS OF SUBCULTURE PERIODICALS IN THE GDR

AND THEIR PLACE IN CULTURAL HISTORY"
by Thomas Günther

JAB9

JAB9, spring 1998, 32 pages, printed on the Solna at Center for Editions, SUNY Purchase, NY by BF.
JAB9 cover designed and letterpress printed by Inge Bruggeman.

Table of Contents

• General Theories of the Artist Book: Ulises Carrión / El Lissitsky / Et Al
—Brad Freeman

• La Symphonie Silencieuse
by Jean-Claude Götting
—reviewed by Cynthia Young

• No Problem, Brother
by Roy Villevoye
and
• Between the Two
by Helen Douglas
—reviewed by Gary Sullivan

• John Baldessari
—Victoria Sancho

• Books as a Way of Life: Interview with Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop
—Interview by Johanna Drucker

• Contingency and the Ontic Book: Some Readings of an Artist’s Book by J.H. Kocman
—Ted Purvis

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Inge Bruggeman

design and letterpress

JAB9 cover, 1998

Inge Bruggeman

Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop,

Providence, RI, 1997, photo–BF

JAB10

JAB10, fall 1998, 32 pages, printed on the Solna at Center for Editions, SUNY Purchase, NY by BF.
JAB10 cover designed and letterpress printed by Emily McVarish.

Table of Contents

• The Buddhist Thirdclass Junkmail Oracle: The Life, Mysterious Death and Collected Poetry & Art of d.a. levy
—Mike Golden

• Nostalgia for Relevance
—Gary Sullivan

• Codex Espangliensis: An Artist Book by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya and Felicia Rice
—review by Emily McVarish

• Broaching Texts and Reading Material: Artist Books by Robbin Ami Silverberg
—Lois Martin

• In Memoriam - Todd Walker
—photo by Brad Freeman