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ARTISTS' BOOKS REVIEWS

The Newsletter

The first publication devoted exclusively to exploring the difference between artists' books and fine press books, and how they fit into the realm called The Book Arts.

At this time the newsletter has ceased publication with the latest issue, ABR #27-SPRING/2007. However, copies of back issues are available for $6.00 each. The entire list is printed below and one may make a selection or selections from it.

Mail request and check to
Artists' Books Reviews
c/o Joe D'Ambrosio
8719 E. Via de McCormick
Scottsdale, Arizona 85258
or e-mail at joebooks@cox.net with request.
Telephone: (480) 951-5212

VOLUME ONE

ABR #1-AUTUMN/2000
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

ABR #2-WINTER/2001
Commentary - Joe D'Ambrosio
Enishi - Gloria Stuart
Variations and Quotations - Ward Ritchie
"...Thoughts on the Book as Art" - Peter Thomas

ABR #3-SPRING/2001
Commentary - Joe D'Ambrosio
It's About Time - Zelda Tanenbaum
Mad Man's Drum - Lynd Ward
"Artists' Books and Special Collections" - Ruth Ellis

ABR #4-SUMMER/2001
Commentary - Joe D'Ambrosio
In Achikoli iwan in Temilo - Artemio Rodiguez
La jicara - Taller Lenateros
"Artists' Books and the Antiquarian Bookseller" - Jim Lorson

ABR #5-AUTUMN/2001
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 - Pamela S. Wood)

ABR #6-WINTER/2002
"Exploring Tunnel Books" - Edward H. Hutchins
(Keepsake #2 - Edward H. Hutchins)

ABR #7-SPRING/2002<
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

ABR #8-SUMMER/2002
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

ABR #9-AUTUMN/2002
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

ABR #10-WINTER/2003
"Making Books in the Key of B Sharp" (Roberta Lavadour) - Edward H. Hutchins
"Magical Books: Peter and Donna Thomas" - Pamela S. Wood
"Between Words and Cultures" - Karen Sander
(Keepsake #3 - Edward H. Hutchins)

ABR #11-SPRING/2003
"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

ABR #12-SUMMER/2003
"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

VOLUME TWO

ABR #13-AUTUMN/2003
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

ABR #14-WINTER/2004
The Art of the Book from the Pacific to the Atlantic
"exquisite 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)

ABR #15-SPRING/2004
Tao Te Ching (Curt Dornberg) - Marjorie Coffey
"Stand and Deliver" - Martha Carothers
"The Liberated Page" - Pamela S. Wood
"One Artist's Opinion" - Scott FitzGerald

ABR #16-SUMMER 2004
Terra Australis (Tommaso Durante) - Joe D'Ambrosio
"One From the Heart" (Mayan Hearts) - Victoria Dawson
"The Power of Connections" (Bookfest II - 2004) - Ann E. Gregory
"Putting it on Paper" (Gretchen Schermerhorn) - Pamela S. Wood
Dragonfly (Carol Cunningham) - Maryline Poole Adams

ABR #17-AUTUMN/2004
"Michael Andrews" - Joe D'Ambrosio
"Beata Wehr: The Artist in Between" - Nancy Solomon
"Dan Mayer - Master Printer" - Pamela S. Wood

ABR #18-WINTER/2005
"The Book Arts in the UK" - Sarah Bodman
"Opening the Book: Reinventing Readership" - A.C. Berkheiser
"Pagination and Imagination" - Clive Phillpot
"10 BOOKS I WOULD HAVE MADE IF I HAD BEEN ON THE COURSE" - Stephen Bury

ABR #19-SPRING/2005
Bookfest - 2005
"What Lies Beneath"
(Gene Valentine and The Paper Project) - Pamela S. Wood
The Stones of Mani (Mary Swisher) - Gary Kurtuz
(Keepsake #5 - Joe Freedman)

ABR #20-SUMMER/2005
Portals on Camino de Oeste - Marjorie Coffey
The Harlot's House (Oscar Wilde) - Joe D'Ambrosio
Strings (Marjorie Coffey) - Rona Chumbook
The Diamond Wager (Joe D'Ambrosio) - Ann Whipple

ABR #21-AUTUMN/2005
The Book Arts in Canada
"Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artist Guild - then and now" - Shelagh Smith
"Lise Melhorn-Boe's Bookworks" - Dr. Tara Hyland-Russell
"Wendy Cain and Reg Beatty"
(Keepsake #6 - Lise Melhorn-Boe)

ABR #22-WINTER/2006
"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 S. Wood)

ABR #23-SPRING/2006
"Maddy Rosenberg"s Speculative Ruins" - John Haber
"Setting Off A Visual Charge: The Books of John Ross" - Edward H. Hutchins
"An Artists' Book Artist's Book" (The Brooklyn Museum) - Joe D'Ambrosio
The Pocket Paper Engineer (Carol Barton) - Joe D'Ambrosio

ABR #24-SUMMER/2006
"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 (Tara O'Brien) - Joe D'Ambrosio

VOLUME THREE

ABR #25-AUTUMN/2006
"Is An Artist's Book Really Art?" - Joe D'Ambrosio
"Look Closely, Now Focus: The Artist's Books of Heejung Kim" - Edward H. Hutchins
"Collaborative Books Invitational/Details Art & Design/Tucson, Arizona/September - 2006"
"Variations on the Dialectic between Mingus and Pithecanthropus erectus"
(Lynne Sures and Rick Potts) - Jeanne Drewes

ABR #26-WINTER/2007
COSMOGONIE INTIME - An Intimate Cosmogony (Yves Peyre) - Ruth McGurk
time square (Buzz Spector)
"Barbara Burton" - Joe D'Ambrosio
"Vamp & Tramp - Nomadic Booksellers" - Pamela S. Wood
"How Much Are You Worth?" - Joe D'Ambrosio

ABR #27-SPRING/2007
"Breaking Book Boundaries - The Art of Dan Mayer" - Joe D'Ambrosio
The Book of Origins Exhibition - Karen Hanmer
"A Journey Forward Revisits the Past" (Joe D'Ambrosio) - Edward H. Hutchins
(Keepsake #8 - Joe D'Ambrosio)

Mail request and check to
Artists' Books Reviews
c/o Joe D'Ambrosio
8719 E. Via de McCormick
Scottsdale, Arizona 85258
or e-mail at joebooks@cox.net with request.
Telephone: (480) 951-5212

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