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Special Collections

Colorado State University Libraries Archives and Special Collections Department collects rare and unique materials in subject areas that support the University's current research and education mission.

Book Arts Collection

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The Book Arts Collection comprises historical and contemporary examples of publications created as artworks in various formats, such as books, letterpress, broadsides, and chapbooks. The collection encourages an interdisciplinary curriculum that promotes multi-sensorial communication and learning within the art and art history department and deepens connections with the larger Colorado book arts community.

Book Arts Highlight

Video without words. Description for "Off the Shelf" video: Exhibition curator Johnny Plastini demonstrates the function of and materials in Alicia Bailey's artist book 'Lipstips' (2001). Plastini opens a small cardboard box to reveal a metal lipstick tube. He opens the tube and twists the bottom, which pushes out multiple sheets of pink paper with typed text. The video's music, "CGI Snake," by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

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