Catalogs & Other Publications

Recent Publication:

Zuancho in Kyoto:
Textile Design Books for the Kimono Trade

Essay by Kenichiro Yokoya; photographs by Mikio Matsuo.
Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 2007.
40 pages, saddlestitched.

Catalogue of the exhibition of Japanese woodblock-printed books of design ideas for kimono. Generously illustrated in full color with images demonstrating the changes in surface design for kimono in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (ca. 1890-1940), from a painterly style to a graphic approach characterized by kinetic lines, geometric shapes, and abstraction of traditional Japanese themes drawn from nature.

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Coming Soon:

Experiments in Navigation: The Art of Charles Hobson

Text by Charles Hobson. Preface by May Castleberry. Foreword by Roberto Trujillo. Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 2008. 64 pages, four-color throughout, die-cut soft cover, sewn binding.

Catalogue published in conjunction with the joint exhibitions at Green Library and the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. Nine of Charles Hobson's artist's books are the focus of the book, which also includes a checklist of Hobson's book works to date and a chronology of his development as an artist. Hobson's narrative texts describe how he conceived, researched, and developed the ideas, artwork, and physical structure for each of the featured books. The text is generously illustrated with images from the archive, production photographs, and photographs of the finished work.

The books featured in the catalogue are Parisian Encounters (1994), Shipwreck Stories (1996), Andromeda Imagined (1998), Writing On the Body (1999), Dancing with Amelia (2000), Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes (2002), Adam & Eve (2003), The Writer (2004) and The Mappist (2005).

$25.00 plus tax ($27.06 with CA tax) and shipping.     

Please go to Price List & Ordering Info for information about how to order this catalog and other publications. All proceeds from sales benefit Stanford University Libraries Special Collections.

Please direct questions to speccollpubs@stanford.edu