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Norman Shapiro Artist Books, 1967-2008
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Norman Shapiro Artist Books
- Dates
- 1967-2008 (inclusive)19672008
- Quantity
- 1.25 linear feet, (3 boxes)
- Collection Number
- MSS 126
- Summary
- Shapiro's work contains explicit content that may not be appropriate for all. Norman Shapiro was an artist and an educator. He created Euphemisms Publishing Company in Brightwaters, New York. The collection includes Norman Shapiro's portfolios, artist books, comics, correspondence and poems most of which include erotic and pornographic material.
- Repository
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Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
1910 University Drive
Boise ID
83725
Telephone: 2084263990
archives@boisestate.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is available for research.
- Languages
- English
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection includes Norman Shapiro's portfolios, artist books, comics, correspondence and poems most of which include erotic and pornographic material. Throughout the collection are letters and artist statements from Shapiro detailing his journey of drawing in the 1960s, creating artist books, publishing and teaching geometry through art.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Shapiro's work contains explicit content that may not be appropriate for all.
Norman Shapiro was an artist and an educator. He created Euphemisms Publishing Company in Brightwaters, New York. In an artists' statement in 2002, Shapiro said he considered himself a book artist. "I use the copier, the computer, assorted software that enables me to scan and edit my drawings and writings. I combine them with 'readymade' things I find. I mostly end up making my books in multiples."
In a letter to former Boise State University professor, Tom Trusky, Shapiro stated "My art, for whatever its worth to others, is for me an extraordinary vorage of sex, art, and sensibility. My drawing and making artist books has redefined me. -Become not only a record of a hidden, secreted self, but of an androgynous persona I'd never have discovered or known otherwise".
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
[Item description], Norman Shapiro Artist Books, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 1 | Artist's Statement | 2002 |
| 1 | Spurts | 2001 |
| 1 | Man in the Hat, #4/89 | |
| 1 | Raglan | |
| 1 | Geometry through Art, #2/3 | 1993 December 11 |
| 1 | Dore The Tithe, #2/100 | 1994 August |
| 1 | Laine's Defection, #2/7 | 1993 December 14 |
| 1 | Bowser | 1991 |
| 1 | Not Another Chapbook, #13/100 | 1991 July 03 |
| 1 | Definitive Bowser, #2/20 | 1993 |
| 1 | VS, #7/50 | 1989 |
| 1 | More Bowser, #20/20 | 1991 |
| 1 | More Than Half a Deck, #5/10 | 1993 April 20 |
| 1 | PORN: A Book of Drawings from the 70's | 1993 April |
| 1 | Travelog, #5/5 | 1993 December 16 |
| 1 | Connie | 1991 June |
| 1 | Selections from Drawings from my Sketchbook, Book One | 1987-1989 |
| 1 | Selections from Drawings from my Sketchbook, Book Two | 1987-1989 |
| 1 | WS Supplement | 1990 |
| 1 | Harry, #12/200 | 1987 May 06 |
| 1 | Travel Log (First Version) #2/2 | 1993 December 16 |
| 1 | The Tithe #5/5 | 1993 November 15 |
| 1 | Tribute to Pierre Louys #5/10 | 1993 August |
| 1 | Untitled (2 books) | |
| 1 | Soho Poems and Drawings about Drawing by Guy Kettlehack and Norman Shapiro | 2004 |
| 1 | Soho Poems and Drawings about Drawing by Guy Kettlehack and Norman Shapiro | 2005 |
| 1 | A Waste Not Want Not Book | 2001 |
| 1 | Velez and the Circus | 1986 |
| 1 | Variations on a Well Worn Theme | 2008 |
| 1 | Drawings about Drawing and Pornography | 1997 |
| 1 | What I Did Last Summer' - A Short Story | 1998 |
| 1 | The Purple Book | |
| 1 | Unison | 1990 |
| 1 | A Set of Pictures Without Words/Arthur's Makeout Party | 1998 |
| 1 | Trios Club | 2002 |
| 1 | Trace | 2004 |
| 1 | Log, May 11th, 2004 and a Collection of Drawings | |
| 1 | This Work…I do DOES me | 2001 |
| 1 | A Western | 2000 |
| 1 | Angrogyne. A Selection of My Pen and Marker Drawings Made into Collages | 2003 |
| 1 | The Gringo | 2001 |
| 1 | No More Mr. Innocent | 1999 |
| 1 | Euphamisms Publishing Company Artist Book Inventory | 1993 |
| 1 | Leatherman with Illustrated Book, Artists Proof #2 | 1987 |
| 1 | Daring Durea, #8/85 | 1984 |
| 1 | Ten Stories, Artists Proof #3/3 | 1993 |
| 1 | Chacrea and a Selection of Drawings from my Sketchbook, #6/94 | 1987-1993 |
| 1 | Harry and Introducing Abusin' Susan | |
| 1 | Geometry Through Art. Grids, Graphs and Patterns for your Copier. A Teaching Resource | |
| 1 | There is more to a book than it's cover! | |
| 2 | A Flip Book, Compiled in the Summer of '85, Drawings and Collage of Fragments of Drawings in Color | 1985, 2006 |
| 2 | 2005 Book #3, "Ser" | 2008 |
| 2 | Computer Graphics/Doc Mondo and Collages/Copier Art | 1982, 1989 |
| 2 | Jamie Dee, Book 1-4 | 2004 |
| 2 | Geometry Through Art | 2007 |
| 2 | Vintage 1950's Lesbian Sex | |
| 2 | Unison: "An Androgyne Series" Book, #2/2 | 2007 |
| 2 | Rolling Stones Concert Photographs by Joseph Szabo | 1987 |
| 2 | Vanman #30, Skip | 2008 |
| 2 | Vintage '87, A Book Set, #1/2 | 2006 |
| 2 | Vintage '87, A Book Set, #2/2 | 2006 |
| 2 | CAT, A Revival | 2001-2002 |
| 3 | Rapid Transit, #6 | 1986 |
| 3 | Reprint #1-2 | 2003 |
| 3 | Doc Mondo, #10/30 | |
| 3 | Portfolio | 1967 |
| 3 | Rod Ragers | 2003 |
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Alisha Graefe
2023
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