Clifton Meador

I have been making books-as-art for thirty years. I still find the codex, as an artistic form, deeply engaging. My books frequently combine photography, writing, and design as part of a unified whole: the book as an original experience in art.

I am interested in making every aspect of a book part of the project: I frequently print my books myself, though I don't think that is an essential characteristic of my work; I usually take all the pictures and do all of the writing, though I don't think that is an essential aspect of my work; and I sometimes even design the typefaces for my books. What I do think is essential is that the books I make use the book form in a meaningful way to articulate an idea.

Because I think books are excellent places for in-depth exploration of ideas.

about

Education and Professional Experience

Awards and Grants

Collections

CV The academic version of my curriculum vitae.

links

Artists' Books Online. An amazing resource of facsimiles and metadata concerning artists' books.

Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Where I teach.

Journal of Artists' Books. A Journal dedicated to criticism and writing about artists' books.

 

artists' books

Several of these links point directly to the Artists' Books Online site.

Three Tibetan Bookstores {2008}

heart {2008}

Rocks, Literati, & Invasion {2007}

Kora {2007}

Avalanche {2007}

Bad {2006}

Tourist/Refugee {2005}

Nameless Dead {2004}

Crossing the Oxus {2001}

Whisky Defense {2001}

Memory Lapse {1999}

Natyurmort {1997}

Long Slow March {1995}

Positive Produce and Negative Books {1995}

Nutritional Disease Throw Rugs {1995}

A.A.A.R.P. {1994}

A Long Walk {1995}

Foxtrot Oscar Lima Lima Yankee {1991}

Sea Change {1990}

Massive Infection {1990}

Anecdote of the Jar {1989}

Mighty Fortress {1989}

Greenness {1988}

Stampland {1988}

Rising Converging {1988}

New Doors {1985}

Doom {1984}

Great Men of the Modern Age {1982}

Short Letter to My Friends {1980}

 

 

other projects

Partially Enumerating Tibetan Buddhism. Mnemonics, metaphysics, and numbers.

I HV DRM Dr. King's famous speech, with all the words removed.

Tibetan Book Printers. In 2006 and 2007, I traveled in western China, documenting traditional Tibetan book production.

Kora Font. A font of walking people, designed for Kora.

Printed Paper. Printing heart during March, 2008.

articles

The Small Pond Published in JAB21 2006

Disciplining a Craft Published in The Bonefolder — Volume 3, No. 2, Spring 2007

purchase

My Lulu Storefront A site for purchasing my print-on-demand artists' books.

Saint Petersburg Apartment {2008}

1950s Chicago Medical Banquet {2008}

Private Prison Company Annual Report {2008}

Internet Police Uniform Sites {2008}

Dallas Texas Bail Bond Yellow Page Ads {2008}

heart {2008}

Every Offering {2007}

Kardanakhi Tataroba {2006}

Sapara Monastery {2006}

Nicht Drain {1999/2006}

Vamp and Tramp. Book dealers who carry some of my work.

contact

Clifton Meador

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