July / August 2013
Contents
Volume 34, Issue 4
FEATURES
The Book is Dead. Long Live the Book
By Nava Atlas
Taking stock of contemporary artists’ books
Ashes to Paper—The Defiance of Remembering
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Starting with al-Mutanabbi Street
Pages of Prints: A Rare Display of Japanese Books
By Kristin Williams
An inspiring collection of illustrated books from Edo period Japan
COLUMNS
Letters
FlashPoints
Studio Visit with Steve Locke
By Craig Stockwell
Artists’ Books
Life’s Work: Tom Phillips and
Johnny Carrera at MASS MoCA
By Charles Bonenti
Artists’ Books
UNBOUND VOL. III, A Growing
Trend and a Rising Interest
By Meg Brazill
Opinion
1993: It Was a Very Good Year?
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set,
Trash, and No Star
By David Bonetti
Book Review
A Penchant for Contradiction
Richard Artschwager!
By Diana Gaston
Looking Back
Artists’ Books, Now and Then,
and Art Books
By Susan Schwalb
More than Documents
A Special Collection of Ballets
Russes Programs: Balletic
Variants on the Artist’s Book
By Tina Sutton
Book Review
Telling It Like It Is
Paula Modersohn-Becker,
The First Modern Woman Artist
By Alicia Faxon
Looking Back
Visions of Social Change: Sixties
Legacies in Search of New Media
By Bonnie Barrett Stretch
Book Review
Beyond the Sunset Strip
Various Small Books: Referencing
Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha
By Christopher Capozzola
REVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
The Forensic at David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University by Anya Ventura
CONNECTICUT
Installation Art by Insook Hwang at Richmond Art Center, The Loomis Chaffee School
by Patricia Rosoff
63rd Annual Art of the Northeast at Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan
by Rachael Palacios
MAINE
Arthur Cadieux: Edge of Spring at Yvette Torres FineArt, Rockland by Carl Little
American Treasures: Other Voices at the FarnsworthArtMuseum, Rockland by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Wunderkammer: Paintings by Richard Whitten at Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State
University by John Winters
The Elephant in the Room at Laconia Gallery, Boston by David Raymond
Aaron Siskind: A Selection and Robert Richfield: Perpetuidad at Gallery Kayafas, Boston
by Paola Ferrario
Toshio Shibata: Constructed Landscapes at Hillborn Gallery, Peabody Essex Museum
by Shirley B. Moskow
AnotherWorld at Blanc Gallery, Cambridge by Merli V. Guerra
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Elana Herzog. Re Constructions: Sculpture and Works on Paper at the Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Memorial Site, Cornish by Judy Ann Goldman
RHODE ISLAND
Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion at the Museum of Art, RISD by Marcel McVay
VERMONT
Labors of Silence | Photographs by Forrest Holzapfel at Catherine Dianich Gallery,
Brattleboro by Meg Brazill
IN EVERY ISSUE
Calendar
Destination Cape Ann
Focus On: Cape Ann
Destination Cape Cod
Focus On: Cape Cod
Getaway Guide
Exhibition Listings
Art Seen