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ANAKED, one – 1972
ANAKED, one – 1972
ZARATHUSTRA – 1973
ANAMORPHOSIS OF EVE—1975
THE ONDT&THE GRACEHOPPER
TRAPEZE — 1976
A CHECKLIST — 1977
THE MOOKSE & THE GRIPES
Literary Figures

Joe D'Ambrosio Book Artist

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1970–1979 Books
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1985-1989 Books and boxes
1990–1994 Books and boxes
1995–1999 Books and boxes
2000–2004 Books and boxes
2005–2008 Books and boxes
You Dress Funny
Krome
ANAKED, one – 1972
ANAKED, one – 1972
ZARATHUSTRA – 1973
ANAMORPHOSIS OF EVE—1975
THE ONDT&THE GRACEHOPPER
TRAPEZE — 1976
A CHECKLIST — 1977
THE MOOKSE & THE GRIPES
Literary Figures
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  • 1985-1989 Books and boxes
  • 1990–1994 Books and boxes
  • 1995–1999 Books and boxes
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  • 2005–2008 Books and boxes
  • You Dress Funny
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  • ANAKED, one – 1972
  • ANAKED, one – 1972
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  • THE ONDT&THE GRACEHOPPER
  • TRAPEZE — 1976
  • A CHECKLIST — 1977
  • THE MOOKSE & THE GRIPES
  • Literary Figures

ARTISTS' BOOKS REVIEWS

27 issues published between 2000 and 2007. Scroll down to issues, ephemera and keepsakes

#1

Commentary - Joe D'Ambrosio

Fractured -  Debra Madison

Baggage Claim - Ed Hutchins with Steve Warren

The Fourth at What Cost - Pamela S. Wood

"Whence Artists' Books" - Joe D'Ambrosio 

[4 pages]

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#2

Commentary - Joe D'Ambrosio

Enishi - Gloria Stuart

Variations and Quotations - Ward Ritchie

" ... Thoughts on the Book as Art" - Peter Thomas

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#3

Commentary - Joe D'Ambrosio

It's About Time - Zelda Tanenbaum

Mad Man's Drum - Lynd Ward

"Artists' Books and Special Collections" - Ruth Ellis

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#4

Commentary -  Joe D'Ambrosio

In Achikoli iwan in Temilo - Artemio Rod!guez

La jfcara -Taller Leñateros

"Artists' Books and the Antiquarian Bookseller" - Jim Lorson

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#5

Commentary - Joe D'Ambrosio

Color by the Book - Pamela S. Wood

"This is not an artist's book!" - Joe D'Ambrosio

"Calligraphy and the Book" - Mary Rinne

keepsake #1

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#6

"Exploring Tunnel Books" - Edward H. Hutchins

keepsake #2

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#7

The  Choice - John & Allison Brebner

Mother Pomegranate - Marjorie Coffey

"Who was Frederic Prokosh ... " - Joe D'Ambrosio

Summer Sun - The Lyceum Press

"A Book Artist Working in the Miniature Format" - Pat Baldwin

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#8

Commentary: Prokosh, revisited; ethics in art - Joe D'Ambrosio

Journey Without Map - Miriam Schaer

Bound - Pamela S. Wood

Tortillas- Painted Smiles Press

"In Stitches" - Joe D'Ambrosio

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#9

Commentary - Joe D'Ambrosio

Tonnesen - Tonnesen

"What Will He Think Up Next?" (Edward H. Hutchins) - Joan Alden)

"Writing to be Seen" - Joe D'Ambrosio

"Criticism: You're Not in College Anymore" - Pamela S. Wood

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#10

"Making Books in the Key of B Sharp" (Roberta Lavadour) - Edward Hutchins

"Magical Books; Peter and Donna Thomas" - Pamela S. Wood

"Between Words and Cultures" - Karin Sander

keepsake #3

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#11

"Elizabeth Clark Howard: The Artist as Artisan" - Joe D'Ambrosio

HUSH - Miriam Schaer and Stan Pinkwas

"Woven and Interlocking Book Structures"

(Clair Van Vliet and Elizabeth Steiner) - Linda Lembke

"The Manifesto of a Book Artist'' - Peter Thomas

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#12

"Hand Made Books Provide Creative Second Career"

(Alice Simpson) - Jim Weaver

Polonius P's & Q's - Poole Press

Christmas Dinner, An ABC Advent Calendar- Poole Press

The Magician's Assistant - Pamela S. Wood

"Pochoir" - Vance Gerry

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#13

"Tea For Two Fables" - Ellen Jantzen

"Cat Dancing" - Anita Ellescas Plummer

"Transition in the Book Arts" - Ann Vicente

"Pater Noster in Nine Languages" - Joe D'Ambrosio

"A Revolution in Miniature" - Joe D'Ambrosio

"Happy Birthday, ABR" - Joe D'Ambrosio

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$14

The Art of the Book from the Pacific to the Atlantic

"exquiste edge" (Tara Bryan) - Gloria Hickey

"Beyond the Page: 3D and the Artist's Book"

"Medusa at Rest"  - Joe D'Ambrosio

"The Mitgard Serpent" - Anita E. Plummer

(Keepsake #4 - Ann Vicente)

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#15

Tao Te Ching (Curt Domberg) - Marjorie Coffey

"Stand and Deliver" - Martha Carothers

''The Liberated Page" - Pamela S. Wood

"One Artist's Opinion" - Scott FitzGerald

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#16

Reviews of Tommaso Durante's Terra Australis, 

"One From the Heart" (Mayan Hearts) by Victoria Dawson, 

"The Power of Connections" (Bookfest II - 2004) by Ann E. Gregory, 

Grechen Schermerhorn's "Putting it on Paper" - Pamela S. Wood 

Carol Cunningham's Dragonfly - Maryline Poole Adams

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#17

"Michael Andrews" - Joe D'Ambrosio

"Beata Wehr: The Artist in Between" - Nancy Solomon

"Dan Mayer - Master Printer" - Pamela S. Wood

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Our Vision#18

''The Book Arts in the UK" - Sarah Bodman

"Opening the Book: Reinventing Readership" - A.C. Berheiser

"Pagination and Imagination"  -  Clive Phillpot

"10 Books I would Have Made if l had been on the Course" - Stephen Bury


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#19

Bookfest - 2005

"What Lies Beneath" (Gene Valentine and "The Paper Project'') - Pamela S. Wood

The Stones of Mani (Mary Swisher) - Gary Kurutz

(Keepsake #5 - Joe Freedman)

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#20

Portals on Camino de Oeste - Marjorie Coffey

The Harlots House (Oscar Wilde) - Joe D'Ambrosio

Strings (Marjorie Coffey) - Rona Chumbook

The Diamond Wager (Joe D'Ambrosio) - Ann Whipple

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#21

The Book Arts in Canada

"Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild - then and now" - Shelagh Smith

"Lise Melhom-Boe's Bookworks" - Dr. Tara Hyland-Russell

"Wendy Cain and Reg Beatty"

(Keepsake #6 - Lise Melhorn-Boe)

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#22

"Tommaso Durante: artists' books and meditations on black" - Sasha Grishin

Southern Cross University - Lismore NSW Australia

"Doing What Must Be Done" John Risseeuw) - Gene Valentine

(Keepsake #7 - Pamela Wood)

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#23

"Maddy Rosenberg's Speculative Ruins" -John Haber

"Setting Off A visual Charge: The Books of John Ross" - Ed Hutchins

"an Artists' Book Artist's Book" (The Brooklyn Museum) - Joe D'Ambrosio

The Pocket Paper Engineer (Carol Barton) - Joe D'Ambrosio

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#24

"Altered Books - Enhancement or Plagiarism?" - Joe D'Ambrosio

"Books About Books - Chicago Hand Bookbinders Exhibition 2006"

"Looking Back from Ground Zero: The Brooklyn Museum"

"The Story of Little Goose" - Joe D'Ambrosio

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#25

"Is an Artist's Book Really Art" - Joe D'Ambrosio

"Look Closely; Now Focus: - Ed Hutchins

The Artist's Books of Heejung Kim

Collaborative Books Invitational - Curt Dornberg

"VARIATIONS on the Dialect between Mingus and Pithecanthropus erectus" (Lynn Sures and Rick Potts) - Jeanne Drewes

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#26

"COSMOGONIE IN TIME An Intimate Cosmogony" (Poems by Yves Peyré) - Ruth McGurk

"Time Square" (Buzz Spector, Pyracantha Press and ABBA)

"Tea Bag Sculptural Book" (Barbara Burton) - Joe D'Ambrosio

"Vamp and Tramp - Nomadic Booksellers" - Pamela S. Wood

"How Much Are You Worth" - Joe D'Ambrosio

[8 pages]

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#27

"Breaking Book Boundaries" Dan Mayer

Review with CD that has images and a 3 minutes musical ode by Joe D'Ambrosio

The Book of Origins / A Survey...

A Journey Forward Revisits the Past: Oaxaca and the Saguaro CACTUS - Music for Contemporary Ballet - Edward H. Hutchins

THANK YOU ONE AND ALL  – ABR

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Clamshell Box #1

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Clamshell box #2

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Index #1

Joe D'Ambrosio Book Artist 

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Index #2

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Keepsakes in ABR

#1

Interaction of Color by Pamala Wood.

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#2

Star Box by Ed Hutchins

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#3

Which Way by Ed Hutchins

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#4

MMIV by Ann Vincente

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#5

Bookfest 2005 by Joe Freedman

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#6

Parent's photo by Lise Melhorn-Boe

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#7

#7

#7

Pocket Boomerang by Pamela S. Wood

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ABR ephemera

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