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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
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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.
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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
Inge Bruggeman
design and letterpress
JAB9 cover, 1998
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
Emily McVarish
design & letterpress printing
JAB10 cover,1998
Todd Walker
Saguraro National Monument, Tucson,1979
photo–BF
Emily McVarish
printing JAB10 cover at her studio
Codex Espangliensis
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya, & Felicia Rice, 1997
"The Buddhist Thirdclass Junkmail Oracle: d.a. levy"
by Mike Golden, 1998
d.a. levy
TING SMOKE, 1967
d.a. levy
Poem Written While Flying Over Hanoi