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The First Archival Paper Limited Edition SLART® Monograph
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The Second Life® Art World

The metaverse has been widely publicized, but not for its use as a creative medium. SLART® was started in December 2006 as a critical review and journal of the virtual arts. In 2007 Second Life® was the medium of choice for a growing number of fine artists. This archival monograph documents the innovative artists who are exploring the possibilities what can be done in a virtual world. 

Scroll down the page to see photos of the Deluxe and Limited real world editions.

This edition provides a permanent documentation of the art being created in Second Life as featured on the SLART® website. It includes interviews with and full color images of work by many of the most significant innovators in SL art: Sasun Steinbeck, DanCoyote Antonelli, Bathsheba Dorn, Filthy Fluno, Adam Ramona, Seifert Surface, Sabine Stonebender,  and Nomasha Syaka, as well as emerging SL artists. 

The limited edition is produced by Richard Minsky, who resides in Second Life as ArtWorld Market. He is considered a leading expert on Second Life Art, and has been written up in artnetFinancial Times Deutschland, Die Zeit, and Artnet, among many others, was interviewed by Kurt Andersen on Public Radio International's Studio 360, and performed a 1½ hour tour of Second Life Art at Location One in New York City that was simulcast in Second Life.

Richard has been making limited edition and unique books for over 30 years and is the Founder of The Center for Book Arts in New York City. The Richard Minsky Archive is at Yale University. You can see his work at minsky.com

In August, 2007 he presented a paper in the Business Track of the Second Life Community Conference in Chicago on "The Art World Market of Second Life." This is the first study of its kind, examining the differences and similarities between real life and Second Life art, including aesthetic, technical, legal and economic factors. The study is included in this SLART® monograph. In time, the SLART® website and Blog will disappear, along with Second Life as it now exists. Other 3D metaverse worlds will appear, the hardware will enable true 3D viewing, and it will become an even more immersive experience. But this book will remain as a record of the pioneering artists whose efforts have already inspired many derivative works. Hundreds of years from now this archival publication will be able to be read, without any electronic devices, the same we we now can read books from a thousand or more years ago.

This SLART® book is printed in high resolution on a HP Indigo 5000 digital offset press, using some of the most durable inks available for color printing on archival paper.


Above: Bathsheba Dorn's Flying Ammonite, a scripted vehicle sculpture.
Bathsheba's geometric sculpture avatar is in the seat.
ArtWorld Market's male avatar is in the other seat.
  


Above: ArtWorld Market's female avatar 


Ask your librarian to order it for your institution.

Two editions are available: a Deluxe leather bound edition and a paperbound edition in a limp cloth wrapper and archival polyester dust jacket. 

1.Deluxe Edition limited to 10 signed and numbered copies, 8¾" x 11½" hand sewn with linen thread and hardbound in black lizard-grained cowhide, with title stamped in 23K gold.


Above: The lizard grained cowhide cover.

Below: Inside is the printed cover.


Above: Two of the pages on the art of Sabine Stonebender.


Above: Two pages on the art of Seifert Surface


Above: Two pages on the art of Filthy Fluno.

Price $500.00

SLART® Deluxe Edition Book $500.00

2. Limited Edition with the same text as the Deluxe Edition, 8½" x 11½", hand sewn with linen thread, in a paper wrapper with the title stamped in 23K gold and a limp cloth wrapper with the title stamped in 23K gold, and an archival polyester dust jacket. Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies.


Above: The archival polyester dust wrapper of the Limited Edition and the 23K gold stamped cloth wrapper.


Above: The 23K gold stamped paper cover of the Limited Edition and the inner printed cover.

Price $200.00

SLART® Limited Edition Book

 $200.00

To pay by mail with a check or submit an institutional purchase order, please reserve your books or CD's online or by phone with the minsky.com subscription form.  If you prefer to pay online, use the secure ordering system by clicking on "add to cart" above for the items you choose. 

You do not need to be a PayPal member to use the shopping cart. It accepts VISA, AMEX, MC and Discover cards, and is a secure merchant service operated by PayPal.  If you are a PayPal member, it will also accept a transfer from your PayPal account.

Institutions that need to use purchase orders: Please use the minsky.com subscription form. You will receive an invoice by e-mail. Individuals who do not wish to use the online shopping cart may use the same form.

Institutional Collections with Richard Minsky editions
In most institutions Minsky books are kept in the Rare Books department of the Special Collections Library. You may have to make an appointment to read one. Call ahead, find the location of the book, and ask about the procedure, as it varies from one place to the next.

* indicates an institution has the above SLART® Monograph

Deluxe Editions
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
* Yale University Library , New Haven CT
University of Rochester , Rochester, NY
Indiana University
, Bloomington, IN

Limited Editions
*Stanford University, CA
Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont, CA
*Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
*University of California, Davis, CA
Princeton University
, Princeton, NJ
*Maryland Institute College of Art
University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Reed College, Portland, OR
*The Morgan Library & Museum
, New York City
University of Michigan
, Ann Arbor, MI
*University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
Pennsylvania State University , University Parrk, PA
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada
*North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Michigan State University , East Lansing, MI 

The Grolier Club , New York City
*The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
FSU/John and Mable Ringlng Museum of Art, Sarasota,FL
Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE
California State Library , Sacramento, CA
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
* Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
* University of California, Los Angeles, CA
* University of California, San Diego, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
, New York City
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington London UK
New Mexico State University
*Ohio University Aesthetic Technologies Lab, Athens, OH
New Hampshire Institute of Art
, Manchester, NH
Boston Athenæum
, Boston, MA
Amon Carter Museum
, Fort Worth, TX
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 
Cornell University
, Ithaca, NY
University of Iowa
,
Iowa City, IA
* Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
*Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
Bienes Museum of the Modern Book
, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
*Art Institute of Chicago, Flaxman Library
*York University, Toronto, Canada
*The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

CD-ROM Editions
Clark Art Institute , Williamstown, MA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Art Gallery of Ontario
,
Toronto, Ontario Canada
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA   
The Athenæum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA  
Duke University, Durham, NC
HarvardCollege
, Cambridge, MA
California State University
, Fullerton, CA
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Ohio University Library, Athens, OH
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Terms:

1. All items must be prepaid on new accounts. Institutions (libraries, accredited schools, museums) may use purchase orders subject to terms. Please inquire.
2. The form above or telephone may be used to reserve your order pending timely receipt of your remittance.
3. New York residents must include applicable sales tax. Dealers and Exempt Organizations must include properly completed resale or EO certificate.
4. Shipping and handling are charged at cost and will be added to orders not picked up in the gallery. 
5. You are welcome to visit the Gallery by appointment in Hudson, NY.

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