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The Weight of the Body : Selections from the Permanent Collection
- Print
- 2005.5.1
- The Women Who Clean Our Houses
- Catherine LeCleire is trained as a printmaker and a bookbinder, and her printed works and artist's books can be viewed and engaged with on two different scales; fully unfurled and displayed across large surfaces, and folded or rolled up and contained... View Full Record
- Print
- 2002.6.1
- In Her Place
- Edition 1/3. 28 x 17 inches.
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- Print
- 2002.2.1
- Sampler
- 17 x 35 inches.... View Full Record
- Painting
- 2019.3.1
- Meditation Diptych
- Joan Snyder is a leading figure in the feminist art movement, and she began her expressionist studies of women's bodies and female anatomy in the late 1960s as that movement was getting underway in the United States. Components taken from nature like... View Full Record
- Print, Screen
- 2019.3.2
- Big Daddy With Hats
- Edition 29/75.... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 1999.4.11
- Guerrilla Girls Greatest Hits
- Published by Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD. 4 ½ x 6 inches.
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- Artists' Book
- 1999.5.1
- Imperfect Sutures
- "Mend the quiet rupture carefully with the intent of a surgeon repairing the severed trachea of her own child. Don't look up once to see or think about the crowds closing in, like ambulance chasers hoping to get a glimpse at what you're up to. Tend t... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 1998.100.33
- Black Book Posters
- Self-published by the artist in NYC. 10 x 10 inches.
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- Artists' Book
- 1998.100.51
- The Weight of the Body
- The Weight of the Body is an accordion-bound book that uses data visualizations, linguistics, and photography to lay bare some of the stark realities of life after divorce as the artist interrogates the concept of an "honest woman" as it pertains to... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 1999.5.57
- Reading Dick and Jane With Me
- Published by Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY. 8 ½ x 7 inches.
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- Artists' Book
- 1999.6.28
- Labyrinth
- Published by Center for Editions, Purchase, NY. 9 x 9 inches.
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- Sculpture
- 2009.5.1
- Untitled
- Abstract expressionist painter and sculptor Stella Waitzkin created polyester resin casts of books for decades of her career, creating "shelves" of these sculptures that filled entire rooms in her home/studio/salon in the Chelsea Hotel. Stella Waitzk... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 2003.5.1
- The Holocaust Series Book XVII, The Many Paths to Oblivion
- Carol Rosen's family was able to escape Germany before the Holocaust. Her mother worked for the United States government during WWII, translating correspondences from prisoners of war. Rosen created The Holocaust Series of twenty artist's books after... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 2003.13.2
- Do Not Open Until After I Am Dead
- Self-published by the artist. 3rd edition, 43/100. 9 ½ x 4 inches.
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- Artists' Book
- 2004.13.2
- Pacifier
- Debra Pearlman focuses on the inner life and vulnerability of children, and her work often speaks to our culture's lack of support for children of all backgrounds and social divides. Pearlman repeats the same head shot of a Black child on each verso... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 2013.4.1
- To Come Upon a Street
- 6 x 5 inches.
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- Artists' Book
- 2004.1.1
- How Disease Can Be Beautiful…Through the Back Loop Our Soul is Fully Christmas
- How Disease Can Be Beautiful combines the sporadic layout and immediacy of a sketchbook or field notebook with the precision of medical imagery and technical diagrams, depicting anatomy, flora and fauna, angels, and sewing patterns. Navigating the bo... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 1999.3.12
- Pretend
- Self-published by the artist in NYC. 11 x 9 inches.
Adrian Piper: Pretend, exhibition catalogue (New York: John Weber Gallery, 1990). Detail: page with image of Pretend #1, 1990. Seven silver gelatin prints with screen printed text and one silver... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 2000.7.13
- Holiday Inn
- Tracey Emin's work is characterized by her use of everyday objects-neon signage, hotel stationery, her own bed-to convey autobiographical material in a candid and confessional style. Emin was a key member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), a group... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 2000.7.7
- In the Life: Portrait of a Modern Sex-Deviant
- Published by Finger in the Dyke Productions, Winnipeg. 14 x 10 ½ inches.... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 1999.6.21
- Laments
- Published by Dia Art Foundation in NYC. 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches.
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- Artists' Book
- 1999.5.75
- The 336 Lines Currently Expurgated from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Ninth Grade Textbooks
- Self-published by the artist. 9 x 6 ¼ inches.
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- Print
- 2002.8.1
- "Going to Synagogue," from the artist's book The Holocaust Series
Book XVII: The Many Paths to Oblivion
"Going to Synagogue," from the artist's book The Holocaust Series
Book XVII: The Many Paths to Oblivion
- Carol Rosen's family was able to escape Germany before the Holocaust. Her mother worked for the United States government during WWII, translating correspondences from prisoners of war. Rosen created The Holocaust Series of twenty artist's books after... View Full Record
- Artists' Book
- 1999.1.8
- Runaway Girls
- Published by Handmaid Press, NYC. Edition 16/75. 9 ¾ x 10 ¾ inches.
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- Poster
- 2019.2.6
- Aniversario 75 se Augusto Rodriguez
- Isabel Bernal (b. 1935, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico) studied design and printmaking at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, WI and painting with Osiris Delgado at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. For three decades she worked as a printmaker and as the only... View Full Record
- Poster
- 2019.2.5
- Aniversario de Plata del Primer Concierto En Carnegie Hall de Augusto Rodriguez
- Isabel Bernal (b. 1935, San Sebastián, Puerto Rico) studied design and printmaking at Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, WI and painting with Osiris Delgado at the Universidad de Puerto Rico. For three decades she worked as a printmaker and as the only... View Full Record
- Poster
- 2019.2.26
- Alma
- The Taller Boricua arts collective and gallery in East Harlem has been a nexus for Puerto Rican and Latinx artists since 1969. This print by Rodríguez Calero was included in the Taller Boricua's 30th anniversary publication the Alma Portfolio, or Sou... View Full Record