Treasures from the Athenaeum’s Erika and Fred Torri Artists’ Book Collection
Max and Melissa Elliott North Reading Room
Treasures from the Athenaeum’s Erika and Fred Torri Artists’ Book Collection
January 12–February 10, 2007
Fifty-four artists’ books in the Athenaeum collection were presented. They were: The Book of Lies by Eugenia Butler, Receuil des Secrets by Louise Bourgeois, What…..? by Derek Boshier, Loess by Michelle Burgess, Bill Kelly, James Renner, Jane Tassi, The life work of Dard Hunter, Bon bon mots by Julie Chen, A couple of ways of doing something; Photographs by Chuck Close; poems by Bob Holman, Five Centuries of Art & Music by Joyce Cutler-Shaw, Aikido conversations: in drawings and words by Joyce Cutler-Shaw and Coryl Crane, 16 dm2 – an essay by Herman De Vries, Tam um Tag guter Tag: Das Glas by Peter Dreher, La Vida Via “Visa” by Melissa Elliott, Flash back: a portfolio of 10 thermographs by Russell Forester, D.R.’s Desert by Faiya Fredman, Nine Works, 1969–1973 by Hamish Fulton, Skizzenbuch by Rolf Händler, I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now by Damien Hirst, New York by Susan King, My pretty pony by Barbara Kruger, Falling to earth by Michael Kuch, Lemons descending; music, poetry, etchings by Michael Kuch, Egypt Revisited I by Andrew Logan, Type by Kathryn Miller, Manny Farber: and all that jazz, Clea rsky by Bruce Nauman, L.A. Air by Bruce Nauman, Heat wave, Serigraphs by Ken Price; text by Charles Bukowski, Seven passages to a flight by Faith Ringgold, Favorite herbs by Sara Rosenbluth, Some Los Angeles apartments by Edward Ruscha, Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles by Edward Ruscha, Royal Road Test by Edward Ruscha, Crackers by Edward Ruscha, Records by Edward Ruscha, Various small fires and milk by Edward Ruscha, Babycakes with weights by Edward Ruscha, Real Estate Opportunities by Edward Ruscha, Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Edward Ruscha, Colored people by Edward Ruscha, Every building on the Sunset Strip by Edward Ruscha, Twentysix Gasoline Stations by Edward Ruscha, Hard Light by Edward Ruscha, A few palm trees by Edward Ruscha, The Water Book: La Jolla Cove by Sibyl Rubottom, Kiki Smith: homespun tales by Kiki Smith, A passage by Buzz Spector, The Life and opinions of Tritram Shandy, gentleman by Laurence Stern [essay by Melvyn New; photo-collages by John Baldessari], Color as Language by Richard Tuttle; text: Thomas McEvilley, Statements by Lawrence Weiner, Babycakes with weights by Edward Ruscha, Business cards by Edward Ruscha and Billy Al Bengston, Dreams 2004 by Genie Shenk, A by Genie Shenk, Untitled by Mauro Staccioli, Sternberg: a life in woodcuts by Harry Sternberg, Foreword by Bella Lewitzky, Learning in Japanese by David Wing.