Read me. Like a book : 30 years of Dobbin Books / Robbin Ami Silverberg ; essays by Paul van Capelleveen, Susanne Padberg and Michael Joseph ; afterword by Kirk E. Pillow and Russ Abell.
Publisher:
Pratt Institute Libraries,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
153 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : color illlustrations ; 21 x 29 cm
"This book was published for the exhibition 'Read me. Like a book. 30 years of Dobbin Books' at the Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY. The exhibition is on view from January 20 until April 9, 2020"--Colophon. "Book descriptions by Robbin Ami Silverberg. Design and photography: Teodóra Hübner"--Colophon. "Pratt Institute, Pratt Institute Libraries, Franklin Furnace, Dobbin Books"--Colophon. Exhibition is part of Live at the Library, an annual arts partnership between Franklin Furnace and the Pratt Institute Libraries. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Five introductions without a conclusion : the book as an installation, the installation as a book / Paul van Capelleveen -- Keep remembering to forget me : memory and forgetting in the artist books of Robbin Ami Silverberg / Susanne Padberg ; translation, Cynthia Peck-Kubaczek -- Continual conversation with Robbin Ami Silverberg / Michael Joseph -- A week of jewels, 2008 -- Affidavit, 2009 -- Rondo, 2009 -- Morning prayer 2, 2000/2004 -- Simulacrum, 2004 -- Thoughts in the form of a letter, 2003 -- Just 30 words, 2005/2006 -- Walls of Kakistopia, 2019 -- Solomon's wisdom I, 2003/2004 -- A nightmare's resolution, 2007 -- Solomon's wisdom : a fable, a poem, a eulogy, a dream, ten nests, eight holes, 2011 -- Self scrutiny, 2011 -- Proverbial threads, 2007/2009 ; text-iles, 2005/2006 -- Home sweet home, 2006 -- Continual conversation with a silent man, 2014 -- Mirror mirror, or, The tainted train, 2015 -- Smell of winter, 2014 -- Spun into gold : first 100+ words, 2002 -- Book of seconds : memory loss, 2005 -- Subterranean geography I, 2011 ; Subterranean geography II, 2012 -- Memory walk, 2018 -- Reading hot spots in New York City, 2017 -- Abriss, 2012/2013 -- Mental mirror, 2013/2014 -- Seeing the unsighted, 2016 -- From dreams to ashes, 1999 -- Duster 2, 2001 ; The clutter of love, 2001 -- Knitting poetry, 1994 -- Bread head fables, 1994/2013 -- Titok (secret), 1996/1998.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.