artist books

37 ARTISTS eBOOKS ARE AVAILABLE HERE AS FREE DOWNLOADS:
Artist Books by Paul Dodd, Anne Havens, Peter Monacelli and Leo Dodd

PAUL DODD “BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD” eBOOKS

I am not the best reader but I am pretty good with picture books, art books and the like. “Brief History of the World” is a set of 22 spiral bound notebooks compiled over a twenty two year period (2000 – 2022) using cut and paste, appropriation, juxtaposition and free association. The books were designed to be viewed in the horizontal, two-page view as there is a dialog between the facing pages.

Seven books from this series are available here as free eBook downloads. The files should open in the book app on your desktop, tablet or mobile device. For help reading .epub files when not using an Apple device click here.

ANNE HAVENS ARTIST eBOOKS

Anne Havens’ describes her art-making as ” . . . a way of dealing with life. It lets me act out, exorcise, focus, resist disintegration, and, most of all, be surprised. ” Anne’s website is an ideal place to start if are not familiar with her work. And then as souvenirs to savor I would encourage you to download her ebooks.

From the intro to “Graceland” (available below) — “I borrow from biblical themes, and play with the BIG questions in my quest for Beauty and Truth – and usually find my resting place on the fence between the sublime and the ridiculous, the priest and the jester.” A version of Anne Havens’ book. “Pink,” was originally published by the Refrigerator and is still available on the way back machine.

The Anne Havens files below should open in the book app on your desktop, tablet or mobile device. For help reading .epub files when not using an Apple device click here.

PETER MONACELLI ARTIST eBOOKS

“Origins” (source, inception and root)
With verse, casin paint and ballpoint pen, Peter Monacelli shares 94 opportunities for contemplation.

“Quatrains” (a stanza with four lines.) As an artist and musician, Peter Monacelli is partial to 4/4. Here he constructs 188 stanzas and accompanies each with an equally beautiful artwork.

“Hidden Words” Peter Monacelli creates illustrations for Bahá’í Prayers: Hidden Words – Part II: From the Persian

“Drawing While Waiting,” “Highland Hospital,” and “Aaron Manor” are three books of illustrations created in a hospital bed over a six month period during which Peter Monacelli was recovering from surgery.

“Strangebirds Remembering Kurt Feuerherm” Peter Monacelli and Kurt Feuerherm were friends for more than fifty years. This book honors Kurt for all the strange birds and other critters that he made.

The Peter Monacelli files should open in the book app on your desktop, tablet or mobile device. For help reading .epub files when not using an Apple device click here.

LEO DODD ARTIST eBOOK

In his “Underground Designers Handbook,”Leo Dodd says he attended a lecture series by Brother David and was exposed to “the beauty and clarity of his thought, how common religious terms like awareness, encounter and commitment, in David’s hands, took on a special arrangement with stunning impact. Without this exposure, to how these terms interplay with God, man and mystery this handbook would not exist.” 

Brother David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine monk, author, and interfaith scholar best known for his teachings on gratefulness. He was born in Austria in 1926. He was greatly influenced by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki’s book, “The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk,” and the two protested the Viet Nam war together. 98 years old now, he is still a prominent voice bridging contemplative Christian traditions with Buddhism. He has a Ted Talk.

My father was 41 in 1968 when he created his “Underground Designers Handbook.” My parents were unhappy with the conservative tenants of Catholicism and along with a former priest and a small group of like-minded liberals they went about forming their own church, not a physical building but a community – The Servant of God Community.

Download Leo Dodd “Underground Desiger’s Handbook”

This file should open in the book app on your desktop, tablet or mobile device. For help reading .epub files when not using an Apple device click here.

NICOLE ZABELNY “COUNTING AT THE CIRCUS”

Shortly before our niece, Nicole Zabelny, passed she created a children’s book in her sixth grade art class. Her book, “Counting At The Circus” is available here as a free download.

Download Counting At The Circus

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