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It: A Poem/Play Installation packs a lot into a small package. As an artists' book, it is considered a work of art and when read, it can be activated as a performance. The New York–based artist, Coco Gordon, incorporates a range of materials in the work such as handmade paper, acetate sheets, xerox copies, photographs, text, and sculptural elements. Each book is hand-bound with a wooden chopstick and has a miniature model of Gordon’s 12 foot sculpture "IT" — a red, lobster claw-like mesh item meant for the reader to “contemplate, lift, unfold, take anywhere."

This colorful catalog for an exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum in 1980 presents photography, painting, and sculpture created by artists who traveled through Arizona and were inspired by the state. The 93 artists included in the exhibition and this catalog span nearly 150 years, and include Helen Frankenthaler, Thomas Moran, Frederic Remington, Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst, and Carleton Watkins.