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Wheeling

Item date(s): 1992

Ruth Laxson


Pages: unpaged
Size: 247mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: #38/200


Place publication: Atlanta, GA
Publisher: Press 63-plus

Additional notes:
Illustrated on page 160 and page 161 of The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books by Renée Riese Hubert & Judd D. Hubert, 1999.

Illustrated on page 253 of The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker, 1995.

Illustrated on page 103 of The Book as Art, Artists' Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2006.

Drawings silk screen. Book in three parts. Part I printed Offset. Part II all letterpress. Includes only pop up Laxson has used in her books. Generously illustrated with hand drawn pictures, photographs, and cutouts. Printed using silk-screen, letterpress, and offset lithography on Beckett Enhance and Graphica Frost papers. Bound in grey paper covered boards. Signed and numbered by the artist with inscription to another artist.

An amusing and illuminating history of the automobile, plus an allegorical dialogue on the effects of an increasingly fast pace that sets our lives "spinning" out of control. By design, this artist book treats the car culture with scrutiny and humor through shaped and layered text in interaction with image. Cited in Joanna Drucker's The Century of Artists' Books as "a quintessential artists' book."

Ref: GB/3699



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