The Athenaeum’s Erika & Fred Torri Artists’ Books Collection

 
Book NumberArtistTitlePub. YearBox No.Comment
AB 2005.46Antin, DavidAutobiography1967176
AB 2012.14Antin, DavidDefinitions196777
AB 2018.24Brecht, George & Robert FilliouGames at the Cedilla: or, The Cedilla takes off196716
AB 2015.71Cage, JohnDiary: how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse),continued. Part three (1967)1967196
AB 2018.19Cage, JohnA year from Monday: new lectures and writings1967204
AB 2015.70Fernbach-Flarsheim, CarlFrom the designer's sketchbook1967106
AB 2012.59Filliou, RobertA Filliou sampler1967176
AB 2004.29Finlay, Ian HamiltonOcean stripe 5196757
AB 2003.62Kaprow, AllanMoving: a happening1967149
AB 2012.31Klintberg, Bengt afThe cursive Scandinavian salve1967176
AB 2015.59LeWitt, SolSerial project #1, 19661967173
AB 2023.15Munari, BrunoLibro illeggibile N.Y. 11967226
AB 1999.7Nauman, BruceClea rsky196736
AB 2018.30Oldenburg, ClaesStore days196751
AB 2012.56Roth, DieterA look into the blue tide: part 21967162
AB 2018.22Roth, DieterMundunculum1967162
AB 2018.29Roth, DieterDie blaue Flut1967164
AB 2008.19Ruscha, EdwardTwentysix gasoline stations1967141
RSM R892 thRuscha, EdwardThirtyfour parking lots…1967
AB 2012.55Russolo, LuigiThe art of noise (futurist manifesto, 1913)1967176
AB 2015.44Siegl, HelenThe selfish giant1967196
AB 2012.58Williams, EmmettThe last french-fried potato and other poems1967176
AB 2012.63A Zaj sampler1967176
AB 2015.37Aspen 5 + 61967192
 

In 2010, the Athenaeum published a booklet exploring the library’s complete collection of artist’s books by the much heralded contemporary artist Ed Ruscha. A second booklet focusing on the Athenaeum’s complete collection of Ida Applebroog’s artist's books was published in 2011. The third booklet on Allen Ruppersberg was published in 2012 and the fourth and fifth booklets (on John Baldessari and Bruce Nauman) were published in 2013. In 2016, the booklet on Roberta Allen’s complete collection was published, followed by booklets on Allan Kaprow and Mel Bochner in 2018. Currently a booklet on Sol LeWitt and a second edition of booklet on Ed Ruscha are in process. All booklets—catalogues raisonnés—are sent out to a list of national and international institutions interested in artists’ books.