The Library

The Library

Building a library of art + design books, catalogues, essays and documents — Hosts: @paul-prudence @vortac — Send a direct cast for an invite — 'Archive of Casts' solution provided by @nftbiker

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📖 Welcome! Let’s build /the-library together, a living repository of our favorite books, catalogues, essays and documents, about → art → design → typography → creative coding → visual arts related + your own images + short reasoning + author, title, field of art Hosted by: @paul-prudence @vortac

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Unbound | Karel Martens

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How Borges Wrote - Daniel Balderston, 2018 For those who have checked out books from the Library of Babel.... This is not a treatise on those well-known recurring themes dear to Borges or an exploration of his stylist tendencies, but a look into the way he planned his work and the process of revision he used over successive drafts in an almost procedural/combinatorial manner. It is also an investigation into the way he annotated his handwritten manuscripts with symbols as a shorthand – and as code – for the underlying structural logic of his stories. More images in the comments.

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Book of the day La vague Hokusai

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@v3ga tagging the man in the background looking into the foreground. 💪☀️🤟

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Meredith Broussard. MIT Press

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Has been a while since I’ve shared some of my bookshelf beauties.

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Dear Data - A Friendship in 52 Weeks of Postcards (Giorgia Lupi, Stefanie Posavec, 2016) . "For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail weekly—small portraits as full of emotion as they are data, both mundane and magical. Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year's set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives—including complaints, distractions, phone addictions, physical contact, and desires. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere."

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Excellent resources on digital art. I think it fits well in /the-library

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Fluxus at 50. Edited by Alexander Klar. Text by Stefan Fricke, Alexander Klar, Sarah Maske, 2012 'FLUXUS AT 50 aims to reconstruct and reappraise this performance, musical and artistic movement. The catalogue presents Fluxus stories, motifs and methods using objects, musical scores and images from the key period of the Fluxus movement.

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Rangoli's are where folk art, religious practices and generative processes meet. Kind of.... The process for making these - exclusively by women and girls in front of their houses - is pretty much entirely procedural. These are from a Rangoli pattern book that I picked up in India more than 15 years ago. I have a dozen of these books and their print quality is gorgeous, perhaps riso'd. More images in comments.

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"Net Arte no Triangulo das Bermudas / Net Art in the Bermuda Triangle" (ed. Sofia Ponte, 2025) A book on early Portuguese Net Art Download here [PT / ENG] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FsAUMO5DRseGbVrwht2ZjFSsU4_DL7lo/view In addition to the content that frames the early techno-artistic context in the country, it includes digital art projects by Beatriz Albuquerque, Daniel Pinheiro & Annie Abrahams, Pizz Buin, Rui Torres, Susana Mendes Silva, wr3ad1ng d1g1t5, Luísa Ribas & João Cruz, Mário Cameira, Rudolfo Quintas, Alice dos Reis, @c & Lia / @c & Rodrigo Carvalho, Joana Chicau and Luís Fernandes.

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The book is in my hands. 💪🙌☀️✌️🙏🥳

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Shirase and Dokan were two of the most iconic Spanish magazines of the 2000s, dedicated to manga, video games, and Japanese culture. Golden age for culture

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