ART Art Books and Zines

Zines that are presented more as pieces of art rather than textual, or zines that consist wholly of visual elements with no text.

black, white and red surrealist illustration of three people in an urban landscape with a big rat and a small butterfly.

2013 Artzine using surrealist art and poetry from London (UK) about conflict with/in Iran.

abstract art

surrealism

London (England)

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Blue and pink cover, title and subtitle in bubble letters and a graphic of a cat standing on its hind legs, wearing heeled boots and an apron

dedicated to the author's grandmother, a visual representation of many aprons inherited from her

art

aprons

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Off white page with small black and white photograph of what looks like mourners holding hockey jerseys

A short zine with seemingly unrelated photos, some photos contain nudity.

photography

hockey

New York City

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Colourful monster with a ton of eyes and the letters of "Fruit" shooting out of them.

Fruit #1 is a compilation of drawings from some people in Toronto. In here:
Steph Davidson - 1-3
Tomas Del Balso - 4-8
Jon McCurley - 9-14
Peter Kalynuik - 20-25

Cover Print by:
Jessit Gill

Put Together by:
Laura McCoy

Copyright the artists:
October 2007

abstract art

comics

drawing

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A black-and-white top-down image of two hands cupped together, in front of various cut-out pictures of flowers. Text at the top of the page reads "SCripture" -- each letter differing in a magazine cut-out style -- and "Vol. 20" in smaller typewriter text. Text in the bottom right corner reads "a zine by softcult".

SCripture zine volume 20.

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A high-contrast black-and-white close-up image of the face of a Lady Justice statue, with dark tears dripping from its shadow-covered eyes. Text at the top of the page reads "SCripture" in large, blocky magazine cut-out letters, with "Vol. 27" in a smaller font underneath. Text in the bottom right corner reads "a zine by soft cult".

SCripture zine volume 27.

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An image of a building and stairwell from below, green tinted and filled with glitchy visual noise. Text in the upper right reads "step inside".

"Step inside" a collection of 11 digital photos of surreal locations and instances, chewed up and spit back out as RGB colour-seperated bitmap images.

digital photography

art books