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Title Description - After living and teaching in Kabul, I became interested in how Afghan immigrants rebuilt their lives in St. Louis. I sought to weave physical details of their new environment and bits of information I gathered during our…

Title Description - Cover title. Text from a letter to the editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by Charles Kelley, published Oct. 3, 1965. Generations after its loss, the demise of a cultural district continues to emphasize the need for destinations…

Title Description - 'A Pedestrian Blockade' was performed on March 11, 1972 by Carolyn Haas, Linda Meskof, and Paul Stitelman at the intersection of 57th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City from 4:45 to 4:50. The work is representative of…

Title Description - A book of collages based on photographs, maps, facts and statistics all relating to nuclear sites and accidents. This classic artist's book manages to present an enormous amount of information in a visually arresting way.…

Title Description - Printed on double leaves, pseudo-scientific figures compare the formal differences between waterslides and Los Angeles, Dallas and Birmingham highway interchanges. Included in the study are slides from the Wet & Wild…

What makes a city? Is there a simple answer, or is it merely dependent on the city's impression on an individual. This book is meant to show the ambivalence of the artist's experience in the city of St. Louis through pairing delicate and simple…

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Title Description - 8 Minutes is the most recent release from Telfer Stokes' Weproductions, a press dedicated to the exploration of the book form to structure visual narrative. The title refers to the time it takes light from the sun to reach Earth.…

Title Description - "Koch explores themes of political and personal mythology in making his large-scale photographic assemblages. In this work, the artist translates three of his "totems" into book form. Addressing such issues as the human urge to…

Title Description - How does Templin propose to ease the rigidity of an overbuilt megolopolis? Just add water. In Three Feet Six Inches Deep, Templin ponders the outdoor urban pool as the light blue "negative architecture" needed to ground a…