Movie Houses N.Y.C. Roy Colmer New York, NY: Roy Colmer. 2003 A pocket-sized photo album of the marquees on midtown Manhattan movie houses, shot between 1977 and 1987. Category: Book $9.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Kiss Me Quick Before I Change My Mind : A Diary of Our Mutual Experience in Love and Loss Diane Dispar Valatie, NY: Valence Press. 2003 Designed to look like a word-a-day calendar, this artist's book is a self proclaimed experiment in writing. It is also an experiment in editing, sequencing and consequently in reading. The pages are dated 12/05/03 through 12/04/04 and present the artist's writings, citations and found images in a disjointed compellingly personal narrative that crosses the terain of memory, desire and dislocation one day at a time. Category: Multiple $20.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Is it a Body Kim Gordon Florence, MA: Glass Eye Books. 2002 Kim Gordon takes "emo" to task in this hand written and illustrated artist's book. Without a body, how can the music have a soul? Follow her argument to its logical end in this seriously amusing indictment of white middle class boys. Category: Book $50.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Imagine Peace [button] Yoko Ono New York, NY: Y. Ono. 2003 Always a good idea. Category: Multiple $1.00

Reverend Jen's "Loves Me" Troll Reverend Jen New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2003 Category: Multiple $6.50 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Ten Isometric Drawings for Ten Vertical Constructions [Second Printing] Fred Sandback New York and New Hampshire, NY: Lapp Princess Press / P.P. Rindge, Ltd.. 1977 ; 2003 Simple vertical lines on a three dimensionally grided field create surprisingly complex spatial relationships in this Lapp Princess Press publication, the first in a series. Reprinted faithfully in 2003 in Fred's memory. Category: Book $10.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Absence J. Meejin Yoon New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc. and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 2003 2004 winner of I.D. Magazine's Design Distinction award, Absence is the third book to come out of Printed Matter’s Publishing Program for Emerging Artists, a program made possible through the generous support of New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Heyday Foundation. The generosity of Whitney trustees Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond J. Learsy was instrumental to the Museum’s participation in the publication of this exciting new work. From Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series. Both a book and a sculptural object, Absence is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a non-architectural, non site-specific space of remembrance: a portable personal memorial in the form of book. At almost two pounds, Absence has a considerable physical presence, but it is in every way the ghost of a presence, and it is this ghostliness that gives it its particular emotional weight. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the book’s only "text" consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one-hundred-and-twenty pages – one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. These removed elements lead the reader floor by floor through the missing buildings towards the final page where the footprint of the entire site of the World Trade Center is die-cut into a delicate lattice of absent structures. Of all of the proposed monuments and grand designs for the twin towers to emerge in the last two years, Absence is remarkable for its employment of an under-used strategy: restraint. The simplicity of Yoon’s materials and her use of repetition speak, without words, about unspeakable loss. Quiet, respectful, mournful, the book does not aim to represent the magnitude of the disaster. Instead it appeals to the vastness of the reader’s imagination and capacity to grieve. The human scale of her memorial operates on a personal level – it delivers the memory of lives lost into the reader’s hands. At the same time, as a scale model of a vanished architectural site, it operates on a larger cultural level by commemorating the site itself. Category: Book $30.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Prisoners' Inventions Written and Illustrated by Angelo Chicago, IL: WhiteWalls. 2003 "In 2001 Temporary Services, a group of artists who collaborate with each other and others outside the group invited Angelo, an incarcerated artist, to write and illustrate a booklet about the ingenious, practical, and sometimes bizarre things he has seen prisoners make. Angelo generated more than 100 pages of drawings and text, representing 78 different inventions or skills--a striking artistic project. As a document it is also an important addition to the dearth of information available about the ways prisoners personalize their environment and attempt to recreate living conditions from outside of prison. "The inventions cover a wide range of techniques for storage, bathing, cooking and dining, privacy, recreation, home beautification and more. Angelo's texts and drawings will show you how to improvise a wake-up alarm, grill a cheese sandwich in a locker, make an immersion heater from razor blades and popsicle sticks, and use a toilet to chill a soda or take a hot bath. "The book collects all the inventions and texts Angelo sent from prison. The instructional texts often make anecdotal references to daily prison life, including small tales about the ways prisoners try to skirt prison rules. Most of the instructions also include highly detailed pen drawings that allow for clear understanding of materials used and how the objects function. Taken as a whole, the collection offers a glimpse into the social environment of prison, where inventiveness and ingenuity are needed to satisfy even the most basic human desires." --from the publisher. Category: Book Out of Stock

Wind Blown Cloud Alec Finlay Edinburgh / Gatehead, Scotland: Morning Star Press / BALTIC. 2003 Originally inspired by the Japanese poet Basho's description of being "drawn like a wind blown cloud" to make a journey, Alec Finlay started gathering images of clouds in 1999. He issued post card and web site invitations to anyone interested to contribute images of clouds to a slide archive housed at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. This book presents a selection from that archive. As Finlay states in a letter to a very young contributor from Uruguay that is reproduced at the back of the book, he sees the clouds as "a way to connect people imaginatively. They are a reminder that we all live under the same sky." This book is a little portable marvel. Category: Book Out of Stock

After Reasonable Research Miranda Maher Brooklyn, NY: Horse in a Storm Press. 1999 This astounding document of the absence of peace in our time lists all open and declared armed hostile conflicts that have taken place between the year 1 and the year 1999. Printed in a tiny font and arrayed in two seemingly endless columns, these conflicts fill a mind-boggling twenty-one pages. Housed in a plain cardboard portfolio, the book is printed on accordion folded decorative paper, an uncomfortable reminder that the refinements of civilization are inseparably bound up with brutality. Category: Book Out of Stock

Blow Up Michelle Segre New York, NY: Regency Arts Press. 2004 Intricate line drawings fill the pages of Blow Up with sections of what appear to be imaginary topographical maps. On the final two pages the view zooms out to reveal the whole interconnected landscape. Category: Small Book Out of Stock

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