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Jeff Tarr and the Invention of Computer Dating

Published by 2wice Books.
By Patsy Tarr. Edited by Susan Johnson, Ellen Lupton, Jim Larkin.

The improbable and untold story of the college student who invented the world’s first computer dating service

PUBLISHER
2wice Books

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 61 color / 105 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/3/2024
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Catalog: FALL 2024 p. 35   

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ISBN 9780972388627 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $49.00 GBP £30.00

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Freedom of the Presses

Artists' Books in the Twenty-First Century

Published by Booklyn.
Edited by Marshall Weber. Text by Kurt Allerslev, Tia Blassingame, Sarah Kirk Hanley, FLY-O, Karen Eliot, Richard J. Lee, Florencia San Martín, Ganzeer, Suzy Taraba, Stephen Dupont, Bridget Elmer, Janelle Rebel, Marshall Weber, Anton Wurth, Xu Bing, Deborah Ultan, Aaron Sinift.

The artist's book as activist tactic: a toolkit

PUBLISHER
Booklyn

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 236 pgs / 60 color / 20 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 1/22/2019
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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 42   

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ISBN 9780692166789 TRADE
List Price: $25.00 CAD $35.00 GBP £22.00

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Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms

Published by D.A.P..
Preface by Adrienne Salinger. Introduction by Tobias Wolff. Afterword by Sara Lippmann.

The new edition of Salinger’s ever-relevant series of 1980s and ’90s teenagers in their bedrooms

PUBLISHER
D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11.5 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 68 color.

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Pub Date 8/12/2025
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Catalog: SPRING 2025 p. 10   

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ISBN 9781942884804 TRADE
List Price: $45.00 CAD $63.00 GBP £38.00

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More Than the Eyes

Art, Food and the Senses

Published by Atelier Éditions/D.A.P..
By Ellen Mara De Wachter. Edited by Lucy Kingett.

Food as social ritual, personal liberation and spiritual alchemy: from Alison Knowles and Adrian Piper to Agnes Denes and Andy Warhol

PUBLISHER
Atelier Éditions/D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 240 pgs / 50 color / 10 bw.

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Pub Date 1/7/2025
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Catalog: SPRING 2024 p. 27   

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ISBN 9781954957046 TRADE
List Price: $39.95 CAD $54.95 GBP £32.99

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Treasure Island

Published by Four Corners Books.
By Robert Louis Stevenson. Illustrated by Shiraz Bayjoo.

A sumptuously designed artist’s book edition of Stevenson’s classic, with illustrations by Shiraz Bayjoo expanding on themes of colonialism and slavery

PUBLISHER
Four Corners Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 280 pgs / 80 color / 1 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/18/2023
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Catalog: FALL 2023 p. 130   

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ISBN 9781909829190 TRADE
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Bruno Munari

Published by Corraini Edizioni.
Text by Aldo Tanchis.

With an updated cover, this facsimile edition brings back into print the crucial 1987 overview of Munari’s wide-ranging oeuvre

PUBLISHER
Corraini Edizioni

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 80 color / 180 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/3/2024
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Catalog: FALL 2024 p. 64   

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ISBN 9791254931011 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CAD $70.00

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A New Program for Graphic Design

Published by D.A.P..
By David Reinfurt. Preface by Adam Michaels. Foreword by Ellen Lupton.

A toolkit for visual literacy in the 21st century

PUBLISHER
D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 180 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/17/2019
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Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 45   

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ISBN 9781941753217 TRADE
List Price: $29.95 CAD $41.95 GBP £22.00

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Is Art History?

Selected Writings

Published by Hunters Point Press.
By Svetlana Alpers. Introduction by Richard Meyer. Interview by Ulf Erdmann Ziegler.

Spanning six decades, this critical compilation gathers Svetlana Alpers’ award-winning writings on art history

PUBLISHER
Hunters Point Press

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 420 pgs / 100 color / 74 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/24/2024
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Catalog: FALL 2024 p. 79   

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ISBN 9798218206482 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CAD $56.00 GBP £34.00

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Photobook Conversations

Published by 1000 Words.
Edited by Ana Casas Broda, Anshika Varma, Duncan Wooldridge.

Candid yet profound meditations on photobook publishing from artists, editors, designers and critics working within the discipline

PUBLISHER
1000 Words

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 5 x 8 in. / 160 pgs.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/24/2025
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Catalog: SPRING 2025 p. 71   

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ISBN 9781036901479 TRADE
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The Agritopianists

Thinking and Practice in Rural Japan

Published by Center for Arts, Design and Social Research.
By Ou Ning. Translation by Matt Turner, Weng Haiying.

A precise history of Japan’s agriculture-based communitarian projects and the utopian theories that have motivated the country’s social changes

PUBLISHER
Center for Arts, Design and Social Research

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 5 x 7.25 in. / 238 pgs / 25 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/11/2025
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Catalog: FALL 2024 p. 49   

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ISBN 9781735698113 TRADE
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