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Dylan Graham's Library in a Book

Item date(s): 2004

Dylan Graham
Christopher K. Wilde  - (essay by)
Mark Wagner  - (designed by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 370mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #17/25


Place publication: Brooklyn, NY
Publisher: Birdbrain Press and Artichoke Yink Comics
Cat. 135-C7-7
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Colophon book in folder on inside front cover (together with a metal button and small book 'Fish Eye' #21/43) showing a diagramatic layout of the 13 other books contained in pockets in the main section of the book. The folder is held together with an orange shoe lace.

Being a collection of books from the head and hand of the artist with commentary on the production of each from the same source and further critical examinations by Christopher Wilde with various other sundries within a handsome and convenient container designed and built by Mark Wagner under the auspices of Artichoke Yink Comics and Bird Brain Press compiled in July the year 2004 of the common era.

Including the following small books (Zines):

Fish Eye #21/43

Small Ship #14/50

The Incendiary Man #64/120

Evil Head in a Jar #10/35

Tuna Can Canasta (Open edition)

Being a Monster #69/200

Tragedy of the Chair #10/50

Man in Speedboat Hits Tree #3/30

Snow Shovel #15/30

Circle Square #32/78

The essay by Christopher Wilde (Editor in Chief, Artichoke Yink Press) is the preface to the book describing the collection and titled: Suigeneris Minicomics.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0135 - C7-7 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/10370


   


   



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