Search Results: Authors starting with M from Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC

Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada:: Marlene MacCallum,, 2012.. Edition of 100. 9.25 x 8.5"; 28 pages. Hand sewn pamphlet. Images printed in offset lithography on Mohawk Superfine. Text printed in inkjet. Translucent covers with inkjet printed on Glama. Signed and numbered by the artist. Marlene MacCallum: "Theme and Permutation is one of a series of artist's books inspired by the experience of living in Corner Brook's Townsite area on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. It is s a response to the permutations and variations of the type-4 Townsite House. Digital tools were used to translate the original film source of eight different window images from five houses. The sixteen offset lithographic plates were custom printed in twenty-nine separate press runs. Each image is the result of a different combination of plates. The structure is a sewn pamphlet with translucent covers. The viewer enters the body of the book with a tritone image of a single Townsite window. As one… Read More

[Madison, Wisconsin]:: ORCS,, 2017.. Edition of 30. 9.5 x 8"; 92 pages. Full color. Cloth covered boards. Die-cut rectangle on front board for viewing landscape image. Signed and numbered by the artist. Christopher Maddox: "'America, Alien Nation' is an abridged, limited edition facsimile of a large altered book I completed in 2017. Influenced by the compelling and often regrettable history of palimpsests, the piece was made by selectively scraping away portions of the original imagery of the book, then adding content via collage and mixed media.  "The pre-alteration coffee table book was a visual homage to the American landscape. It glorified a history of Western expansion with images that evoked the romance of the Wild West and the splendor of modern urban development. Through passive omission, the pre-altered book filtered out a history of genocide, slavery, mass extinctions, economic polarization and ghetto sprawl. The pervasive alterations of the artist's book… Read More

[Madison, Wisconsin]:: ORCS,, 2019.. Edition of 150. 11 x 6.5" oblong; 76 pages plus cover. Printed four-color offset. Folded insert included inside the back cover. Also insert laid in. Perfect bound with printed heavyweight translucent vellum overwrap. Signed and numbered by the artist. Christopher Maddox: "'Corruption' tracks ten inflammatory quotations from world leaders as the words are translated across language barriers. Each chapter cycles a [highly-publicized] statement through the languages of the world's 80 most influential nations. The machine translation (MT) platforms used are noted throughout the work. The final translation for each chapter is presented on a full spread, typeset in a manner that means to accentuate its new poetic, interpretive essence. A folded pamphlet titled 'We Will Bury You' is mounted to the inside back cover. The booklet explains the origins and misunderstandings surrounding the infamous mis-translated quote by Nikita Khrushchev. It… Read More

[Madison, Wisconsin]:: ORCS,, 2017.. Edition of 300. 6 x 9"; 84 pages. Softcover. Screen printed dust jacket. Signed and numbered by the artist. Christopher Maddox: "Fake Art! is a series of statistical and poetic text analyses. Each piece imposes audacious task-reassignments and other structural manipulations to shift tone and meaning of the words broadcast by contemporary political figures. Book #1 focuses on interviews given by Donald Trump with the Associated Press and Time magazine in 2017. The new iteration may appear elevated, degraded, or a combination of these that can both satisfy and disturb the reader. The reader's experience will depend on perspective and attitude - on the sum of one's encounters with the world, and his or her confirmation bias.  "The texts presented in staggered, narrative poetic form within are not redacted. Each such page presents a single transcribed response in its entirety as spoken by President Trump. Typographic formatting has been… Read More

[Madison, Wisconsin]:: ORCS,, 2017.. Edition of 5. 14 x 8.75"; 215 pages. Printed on vellum. Signed and numbered by Maddox. Bound in blue cloth covers over boards. Christopher Maddox: "? (antiparallel) investigates shifts of meaning that occur when prose is translated. This analytical and poetic study is built from two versions of The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges: a version translated by Borges and his close creative partner Norman Thomas di Giovanni, and a more recent Penguin Classics release, translated by Andrew Hurley at the bequest of Borges' surviving heir, Maria Kodama, who wanted to cut di Giovanni out of a royalties contract.  "A central theme, conveyed in the title of the story, is the notion that one might imagine a multiplicity of personal existences, each of which expresses a choice made in life that initiated a sequence of events and a particular existence - parallel but unique realities. Such paradoxical antiparallels are mirrored in the… Read More

Flörsheim / Offenbach:: Peter Malutzki,, 2017.. Edition of 800. 9 x 12"; 160 pages. Design by Peter Malutzki. Photography by Ines von Ketelhodt. Text in German and English. Translations into English by Emily Banwell. Bound in lightweight paper covers with printed dust jacket. . A catalog prepared for an exhibition of the artist's work at the Klingspor Museum (Offenbach, Germany) from 5 March to 15 April [2017]. The exhibition catalog begins with an introduction by the artist, the explanations of the works are written by him, the epilogue is by the head of the museum, Stefan Soltek. Each book has the bibliographic information, the artist's description of his thought behind the work and color images of the book.  Kingspor Museum: "For 35 years, Peter Malutzki has devoted himself to book art and is one of the protagonists of the contemporary artist's book. The books of his Flugblatt Press are almost completely assembled in the Klingspor Museum, as well as the 50-volume… Read More

Flörsheim, Main, Germany:: Peter Malutzki,, 2013.. Edition of 60. 19 x 11.5 cm (7.4 x 4.5"); 94 pages. Design, handset, and letterpress: Peter Malutzki. Silver embossed black cardboard cover with cloth spine and titles embossed to resemble push-buttons. Signed and numbered by the artist. Peter Malutzki: "Images from the internet of girls taking photographs of themselves with their cell phones, mostly in front of a mirror. The images were made up in Photoshop, using the color separation process (adding some 19th century ornamental forms), and afterwards printed with polymer plates in letterpress (4 plates for each picture). Most of the images are printed several times using interchanged colors. The added text quotations come from the Beatles song Lucy in the sky with diamonds. The form and smallness of the book are a reference to the omnipresent mobil devices." Harvard.edu Blog (08.15.2014): "Book artist Peter Malutzki became interested with 'selfies' and… Read More

Flörsheim, Main, Germany:: Flug Blatt-Press,, 1985.. Edition of 135. 15 x 23 cm (5.9 x 9"); 48 pages. Design, handset, and letterpress by Peter Malutzki. Typeface: Legende (by Ernst Schneidler). Text in German. English translation laid in. Bound in gray linen cloth by Helmuth Halbach with paper collage and darning needle inset on front board. Signed and numbered by the artist. Die Stopfnadel text was taken and reworked from an old translation of Anderson's Fairy Tales.  Buch Kunst SFCB exhibition description: "The illustrations are made up of, among other things, brass rules, photographs, linocuts, wood type, a piece of a German newspaper from 1852 and a bit of genuine gold leaf. … A darning needle with pretensions tries to hold her own as she is shunted from a maid's apron into a kitchen sink. Andersen's cautionary tale of overweening pride is not without a certain grudging admiration for this attribute as a survival tool." Peter Malutzki:… Read More

Flörsheim, Main, Germany:: Flug Blatt-Press,, 2011.. Edition of 50. 15 x 24 cm (5.9 x 9.4"); 84 pages. Design, handset, and letterpress by Peter Malutzki. Printed linen over board covers with paper title label on front cover. Signed and numbered by the artist. Peter Malutzki: "The book features short texts by various authors in their original language (Konrad Bayer, The Beatles, Clemens Brentano, John Cage, Lewis Carroll, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Carlo Collodi, Daniel Defoe, Emily Dickinson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter von der Vogelweide) as well as pictures printed in letterpress using linocut, woodcut, wood engraving, and polymer-plates (1 photograph is done in digital print)."

Flörsheim, Main, Germany:: Peter Malutzki,, 2015.. Edition of 42. 18 x 12.5 cm; 56 pages. Booklet with pamphlet stitch binding. Letterpress printed from handset type. Text in German. In slipcase. Signed and numbered by the artist. Peter Malutzki: "This relatively small 56-page book made of glassine paper is exclusively devoted to a poem by Clemens Brentano. What especially fascinated me about this famous poem was the contrast between dream and painful awakening. I immediately had pictorial associations - nothingwas more obvious than seeing Brentano's dreamers in the faces of people who are sleeping peacefully, their closed eyes a universally understood symbol of calm. In contrast: the sudden awakening, being immediately and unmistakably present in the wide open eyes of the 'naked truth'. Snap out of the dream. Stop imagining things. Look the facts straight in the eye. Or: Dream on. We all know the sayings. The tone of the poem changes with the line Kömmt dann Wahrheit… Read More

Flörsheim, Main, Germany:: Peter Malutzki,, 2008.. Edition of 20. 20 x 28.4 cm (7.9 x 11.2"); 36 pages, Green mould-made paper. Design, handset, and letterpress by Peter Malutzki. Linen-over-board cover with front label. In slipcase. Numbered and signed by the artist. Collage material from original pages of old books (some over 20 years old), red mould made-paper, and old correction labels. Peter Malutzki: "'Collagebuch eins' was not just meant to be a book with 14 collages pasted into it; it was an attempt (at least, it was my - probably still typically encyclopedic - goal) to exemplify and call into question the architecture of a book that is supposed to combine 'texts' and images. The 'textual message' is conveyed by rectangular shapes printed in red using brass rules. Starting with a simple rectangle on the first page, the shapes are increasingly sub-divided on each page in the course of the book. The succinct message in these 'dummy text… Read More

Flörsheim, Main, Germany:: Peter Malutzki,, 2021.. Edition of 30. 24.6/17.5 cm; 48 pages. Photos edited in Photoshop. Printed on Bamboo Awagami Paper with archival pigments (Epson SureColor P7500). Text letterpress in Unger Fraktur type. Cloth-over-board with front title label. In slipcase. Numbered and signed by the artist. Peter Malutzki: "’Born to Be Alive’ could be described as a collage novel. It is assembled from the opening passages of the following 18 novels: Julian Barnes, ‘Talking It Over’; Daniel Defoe, ‘The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders’ and ‘The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe’; Charles Dickens, ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Great Expectations’; Jeffrey Eugenides, ‘Middlesex’; Jonathan Safran Foer, ‘Everything is Illuminated’; Max Frisch, ‘Stiller’; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, ‘Dichtung’ und ‘Wahrheit’; Robert Graves,’… Read More

Flörsheim, Main, Germany:: Peter Malutzki,, 2022.. Edition of 30. 23.8/16.8 cm; 34 pages. Booklet structure. Hand-set song text in Futura Condensed and printed letterpress. Images printed digitally. Numbered and signed by the artist. Peter Malutzki: "'Mona Lisa was composed by Jay Livingston and Raymond B. Evans for the 1949 film 'Captain Carey', U.S.A. But it was the cover version by Nat King Cole who made the song really popular in 1950.  "The pictures of the Louvre visitors were taken from the internet and printed digitally. I cut the Mona Lisa pictures out of their photo frames." This painting by Leonardo da Vinci has been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797. It is probably one of the best known pieces of art in the world. It has been integral to book plots, an object of parody, and certainly viewed by thousands. In this piece by Peter Malutzki he marries the song words with the crowds milling around the Louvre to catch a… Read More

Flörsheim, Main, Germany:: Peter Malutzki,, 2008.. Edition of 20. 20 x 28.4 cm (7.9 x 11.2"); 36 pages, Letterpress graphics printed in black and red with brassrules. Design, handset and letterpress by Peter Malutzki. Linen-over-board cover with front label. In slipcase. Numbered and signed by the artist. Collage material original pages from US comics. Peter Malutzki: " This book is a variation on 'Collagebuch eins', with different materials and shapes. The 'text block pages' consist of horizontal lines in red and black. The number of lines increases from page to page. But unlike 'Collagebuch eins', where the same green rectangle always provides the frame for the collages, here the number of lines increases on the collage pages as well. The material for the collages comes from original US comics. Unlike the book pages in 'Collagebuch eins', however, they are not torn up 'at random', but divided by perforations. I made perforated lines all… Read More

Tallahassee, FL:: Blue Section Press,, 2020.. Edition of 25. 5.25 x 8.5"; 14 panels including pastedowns. Double sided accordion. Letterpress Printed using photopolymer and placemats on French Paper Smart White. Boards covered in book cloth with paper title label. Signed and numbered by the artist. Laid in cloth covered clamshell box. Cheri Marks: "A Case of Equilibrium explores the relationship between cyclical systems that occur, whether by deliberate choices, or natural forces, to sustain balance. The book investigates two particular cyclical events; the Gulf Stream ocean current and personal movement within a structural space. The two form a personal connection based on geographic location. They are built around stability and intentionality while considering constants that occur throughout cycles to maintain equilibrium. "During my research, I formed a poetic relationship between the Gulf Stream ocean current and its directed movement with my own. The interpretation of two… Read More

Tuscaloosa, Alabama:: Blue Section Press,, 2018.. Edition of 20. 4 x 6"; 26 (including free end) pages. Letterpress printed with photopolymer plates. Handmade paper from reclaimed materials. Set in Bulmer and Bulmer Italic type. In dustjacket with title print on front cover and floral illustration across spine. Illustrations by Cheri Marks and Maggie Minor. Words by Reilly D. Cox. Numbered. Signed by Marks, Cox, and Minor. Cheri Marks: "'Floral and Break' is a collaborative artist book between myself and two other book artists that focuses on the art of papermaking. The writing comes from Reilly Cox and the illustrations from myself and Maggie Minor. We collected found materials around Tuscaloosa, AL, and made all of the paper used for the book. The illustrations are of plants that we gathered fiber from, and we made blue paper to support the text.  "The book is made of 100% handmade paper and forms a poetic relationship with the process of papermaking and the material.

[Manchester, England]:: Darren Marsh,, 2023.. Edition of 12. 30 pages; Dimensions 15cm x 15cm x 15cm, Unfolded 18cm x 18cm x 18cm. Polyhedron . Materials: Canon Chromalife 100+ Inkjet print on 120gsm paper; Archival PVA. Mapping images acredited to IAU and Sky & Telescope. Creative Commons By 3.0. Edited in Adobe Photoshop. Darren Marsh: "'We came from the Stars' is a star shaped polyhedron constructed from a star chart mapped across 30 individual pages. Each page has been duplex printed then folded into an origami boat which may be opened and read. Collectively all pages can be opened to form a second celestial object. "Stars are the birthplace of nearly every known element in the universe and essential to all life on earth. Most of the elements in our bodies were formed in stars over the course of billions of years. "The idea we came from the stars is also rooted in many human cultures and civilisations. At different places and at different times… Read More

[Manchester, England]:: Darren Marsh,, 2020.. Edition of 6. 3 bookworks each 16.8cm x 28.4cm. Each bookwork an 8 page bound concertina. Unfolds in spreads and can be read as one continuous piece. Archival digital print on 280gsm Titanium Lustre silver resin coated paper. Archival linen hingesMirri Blanco Pearl 220gsm covers. Blue and gold inked paper cover labels. Blue and gold inked paper banderole. All content, design and production by Darren Marsh. Includes Certificate of Authenticity signed and numbered by artist. Darren Marsh: "weneverstoodapart is a visual poem about our relationship with other beings, both human and non-human. We have constructed our worlds with humans as the dominant or central character, and so find ourselves in an ecological and political era which mirrors the impact this brings to all life and the planet. "A civilisation that chooses to drive ecological change, while refusing to acknowledge its own interdependence and interconnectedness,… Read More

Iowa City, Iowa:: Emily Martin,, 2020.. Edition of 25. 13 x 9.25". Five Volvelles. Letterpress printed using polymer plates on different shades of BFK paer. Each volvelle laid in paper folder. Encolsed in a cloth covered clamshell box. Signed and numbered by the artist. Emily Martin: "A set of five volvelles portraying five faces of Oscar Wilde backing five faces of characters from Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest. The inner wheels turn to allow the reading of lines from the play and other of Wilde’s writings." Emily Martin, YouTube video introuction: "I became aware of Oscar Wilde in college when we studied him. He was celebrated in his time in the late eighteen hundreds as a writer of all sorts in particular as a playwright. He was at the height of his celebrity when he was accused of being a sodomite. Sued and not only lost the suit but then was convicted for committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons under section 11 of the 1885 of… Read More

Iowa City, Iowa:: Emily Martin,, 2017.. Edition of 25. 10 x 8", two sheets. Letterpress printed on Lettra paper from handset type, relief printing using P22 Blox, collagraphs and polymer plates. Includes 9 sheets with two figures and a variety of costume and genitalia options. The deluxe paper dolls sets includes the two sets of the sheets, one cut and the other uncut. Emily Martin: "'Funny Ha Ha Funny Peculiar or Funny Peculiar Funny Ha Ha' is the result of my extended study of Shakespeare's comedies. I find the comedies individually to be enjoyable but there is a sameness to many of the plots that allows me to mix them up in my head. So much mistaken identity, gender confusion, and various other contrivances while romping their way to a fifth act wedding or two. Even more problematic are the decidedly unfunny themes that are common in many of these same comedies such as hypocrisy, sexual harassment, intolerance, sexism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism.… Read More