Recent Exhibition Catalogs

Things that Dream: Contemporary Calligraphic Artists' Books
Cosas que sueñan: Libros de artistas caligráficos contemporáneos

Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition by the same name on display in Green Library April 19-July 8, 2012. The sixteen one-of-a-kind books of poetry by Pablo Neruda and Federico García Lorca are the fruit of a five-year collaboration between poet and model Mary Julia Klimenko, artist Manuel Neri, calligrapher Thomas Ingmire, and design binders Daniel E. Kelm, Kylin Lee, and fellow mechanics at the Wide Awake Garage.

Bilingual English and Spanish text features an extensive essay about the project by contemporary art critic Bruce Nixon together with shorter texts by Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress; artist and essayist Joseph Goldyne; Michael Keller, University Librarian and Director of Academic Information Resources, Stanford University Libraries; Roberto Trujillo, Frances & Charles Field Curator of Special Collections and Head, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University; and Steve Woodall, Director, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago.

Generously illustrated in full color with large-format double-page images from each of the books that are the focus of the exhibition. Designed by John Hubbard, Eson Design.

566 pages. $85.00

Celebrating Mexico:
The Grito de Dolores and the Mexican Revolution  
1810 | 1910 | 2010

This richly illustrated, bilingual catalogue of concurrent exhibitions at Stanford and UC-Berkeley, jointly published by the Stanford University Libraries and The Bancroft Library, includes three scholarly essays and complete checklists of both exhibitions. Eighty-six full-color and duotone images illustrate aspects of Mexican Independence and significant events of the Revolution, accompanied by descriptive text.

Length: 80 pages
Illustrations: 32 full color reproductions, 54 duotones
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Binding: smythe-sewn, with drawn-on paper cover and gate-fold flaps.

Price: $20 plus tax and shipping. Please go to Price List & Ordering Info for information about how to order.

Mary Webb: Neglected Genius

By Mary Crawford and Bruce Crawford.
An illustrated catalog published to accompany exhibitions at the Grolier Club, New York and the Stanford University Libraries.
Two hardcover volumes in slipcase.

This catalog includes introductory essays about the life and work of the Shropshire novelist and poet, Mary Webb (1881-1927), as well as synopses of her novels. Webb's work is explored in depth through over 180 items, many of which are Webb's original manuscripts and typescripts. Dr. Gladys Mary Coles, Webb's biographer and author of The Flower of Light, contributes the foreword, and an essay, Mary Webb--A Modern Writer.

Included as a second volume is a special edition of Webb's hitherto unpublished juvenile work Clematisa & Percival, printed letterpress on imported mould-made paper, with six full color tip-ins of artwork by Bill Bishop created specially for this publication.

$75.00 plus tax and shipping. Please go to Price List & Ordering Info for information about how to order.

Leigh Ortenburger
in the Thin, Cold Air
photographs and tributes

Twenty pages, 8 x 10 in., 15 photographs by Leigh Ortenburger printed in tritone.
Removable panoramic view of the upper Quebrada Alpamayo, reproduced in tritone
from eight 4x5 negatives, opens to 62 x 9-3⁄16 ins.
Tributes by Carolyn Ortenburger, Steve Roper, Nick Clinch, Renny Jackson, and Glen Denny.
Photography edited by Glen Denny. Designed by John Rawlings. Printed by Lithocraft Company.

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.

$15.00 plus tax ($16.24 with CA tax) and shipping.
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All proceeds from sales benefit Stanford University Libraries Special Collections.

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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