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

PAUL DODD “BREIF HISTORY OF THE WORLD” eBOOKS

20 volumes of "Brief History of the World" on shelf by Paul Dodd
20 volumes of “Brief History of the World” on shelf by Paul Dodd

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.

Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol I"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol I”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol II"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol II”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol V"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol V”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol IX"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol IX”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol X"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol X”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol XII"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol XII”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol XVI"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol XVI”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol XIX"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol XIX”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol XX"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol XX”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol XXI"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol XXI”

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Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book "Brief History of the World • Vol XXII"
Book cover for Paul Dodd artist book “Brief History of the World • Vol XXII”

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Sample spread from Paul Dodd notebook series, Brief History of the World.
Sample spread from Paul Dodd notebook series, Brief History of the World.
Sample spread from Paul Dodd notebook series, Brief History of the World.
Sample spread from Paul Dodd notebook series, Brief History of the World.
Sample spread from Paul Dodd notebook series, Brief History of the World.
Sample spread from Paul Dodd notebook series, Brief History of the World.

ANNE HAVENS ARTIST eBOOKS

Anne Havens' books on table in Colleen Buzzard's Studio
Anne Havens’ books on table in Colleen Buzzard’s Studio

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.

Cover of Anne Havens "Circus" 2021
Cover of Anne Havens “Circus” 2021
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Cover of Anne Havens "6x6" 2008 - 2014
Cover of Anne Havens “6×6” 2008 – 2014
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Cover of Anne Havens "Desultory: A Few Recent Leaps of Faith" 2008
Cover of Anne Havens “Desultory: A Few Recent Leaps of Faith” 2008
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Cover of Anne Havens "Piecework, Samplers & Other Twists & Turns" 2018 - 2019
Cover of Anne Havens “Piecework, Samplers & Other Twists & Turns” 2018 – 2019
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Cover of Anne Havens "Portraits" 2016
Cover of Anne Havens “Portraits” 2016
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Cover of Anne Havens "Catching the Wind" 2020
Cover of Anne Havens “Catching the Wind” 2020
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Cover of Anne Havens "Ceramics" 2020
Cover of Anne Havens “Ceramics” 2020
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Cover of Anne Havens "Early Sculpture" 1992 - 1997
Cover of Anne Havens “Early Sculpture” 1992 – 1997
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Cover of Anne Havens "Graceland" 2010
Cover of Anne Havens “Graceland” 2010
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Cover of Anne Havens "Madonna" 2015
Cover of Anne Havens “Madonna” 2015
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Cover of Anne Havens "Mercer Gallery MCC 1999 / " UR Art & Music Library 2002
Cover of Anne Havens “Mercer Gallery” MCC 1999 / ” UR Art & Music Library 2002
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Cover of "Anne Havens / Rolando Galardi" Dyer Arts Center NTID 2005
Cover of “Anne Havens / Rolando Galardi” Dyer Arts Center NTID 2005
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Cover of Anne Havens "Recent Doodles" 2016
Cover of Anne Havens “Recent Doodles” 2016
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Cover of Anne Havens "Recollect/Reconstruct" 2007
Cover of Anne Havens “Recollect/Reconstruct” 2007
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Cover of Anne Havens "Slideshow, Notes from Paradise, Etc." 2011
Cover of Anne Havens “Slideshow, Notes from Paradise, Etc.” 2011
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Cover of Anne Havens "Studio" 2016
Cover of Anne Havens “Studio” 2016
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Cover of Anne Havens "Prayers in a Time of Pestilence" 2020
Cover of Anne Havens “Prayers in a Time of Pestilence” 2020
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Sample page of Anne Havens "Circus"
Sample page of Anne Havens “Circus”
Sample page of Anne Havens "6x6"
Sample page of Anne Havens “6×6”
Sample page of Anne Havens "Desultory"
Sample page of Anne Havens “Desultory”
Sample page of Anne Havens "Piecework"
Sample page of Anne Havens “Piecework”
Sample page of Anne Havens "Portraits"
Sample page of Anne Havens “Portraits”

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.

Peter Monacelli "Origins"
Peter Monacelli “Origins”

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Peter Monacelli "Quatrains"
Peter Monacelli “Quatrains”

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Peter Monacelli "Hidden Words"
Peter Monacelli “Hidden Words”

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Peter Monacelli "Drawing While Waiting"
Peter Monacelli “Drawing While Waiting”

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Peter Monacelli "Highland Hospital"
Peter Monacelli “Highland Hospital”

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Peter Monacelli "Aaron Manor"
Peter Monacelli “Aaron Manor”

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"Strange Birds - Remembering Kurt Feuerherm" by Peter Monacelli
“Strange Birds – Remembering Kurt Feuerherm” by Peter Monacelli

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Page 25 from Peter Monacelli's eBook "Origins"
Page 25 from Peter Monacelli’s eBook “Origins”
Page 84 from Peter Monacelli's eBook "Origins"
Page 84 from Peter Monacelli’s eBook “Origins”
Page 68 from Peter Monacelli's eBook "Origins"
Page 68 from Peter Monacelli’s eBook “Origins”
Page 150 from Peter Monacelli "Quatrains"
Page 150 from Peter Monacelli “Quatrains”
Page 63 from Peter Monacelli "Quatrains"
Page 63 from Peter Monacelli “Quatrains”

LEO DODD ARTIST eBOOKS

n 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.” 

Page 21 of "Underground Designers Handbook" by Leo Dodd 1968
Page 21 of “Underground Designers Handbook” by Leo Dodd 1968

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.

Page 45 of "Underground Designers Handbook" by Leo Dodd 1968
Page 45 of “Underground Designers Handbook” by Leo Dodd 1968

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.

Front cover of "Underground Designers Handbook" by Leo Dodd 1968
Front cover of “Underground Designers Handbook” by Leo Dodd 1968

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NICOLE ZABELNY “COUNTING AT THE CIRCUS”

Sample spread of Nicole Zabelny's eBook "Counting at the Circus"
Sample spread of Nicole Zabelny’s eBook “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.

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