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Real Fiction
An Enquiry into the Bookeresque

Item date(s): 1987

Telfer Stokes


Pages: unpaged
Size: 190mm


Place publication: Rochester, NY
Publisher: Visual Studies Workshop (Weproductions)

Additional notes:
Illustrated on page 195 of The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker, 1995.

Weproductions: "This series of five books ... demonstrate a widening vocabulary in book art, particularly in the innovative combination of text and image. Also, the artists' varied use of printing processes, made possible through the setting up of their press and collaboration with other presses in the USA, becomes an additional level in the developing language of the book. Taking as a starting point the incongruous space and shadows made by the open pages of the book, the process of opening or 'entering' is explored as one would an unknown dwelling. This process of exploration develops into the construction of a room within the book and then leads from the core of this interior place outwards, as fusion between inside and outside. Interspersed, a constructive text hovers and casts shadows on the open pages as an active commentary and associative dialogue on the 'construction'. Published by The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY in conjunction with Weproductions on an artist in residency scheme."

Ref: GB/6238







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