Pages: 181pp (360pp?) Size: 220mm Binding: Japanese book cloth Edition: Letter 'E' /48 copies
Place publication: New York Publisher: Granary Books Cat. 64; 8 Exhibition 1996; 2014
Additional notes: Wedge shaped book.
Illustrated on page 123c of The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books by Renée Riese Hubert & Judd D. Hubert, 1999.
Illustrated on page 119 of The Century of Artists' Books by Johanna Drucker, 1995.
Illustrated on page 158 of When will the book be done? By Steven Clay, 2001.
See Bonhams auction catalogue 15/12/2009, Lot 5122.
Reference note: Edmond Jabes has noted, :Mark the first page of a book with a red ribbon, for the wound is inscribed at the beginning.: Buzz Spector's first publication with Granary Books, A PASSAGE, is a profoundly wounded book. Using the method of his unique altered bookworks, Spector has torn these pages in a sequence of lessening increments to make a cross section of his text. Each and every volume in the edition has been altered in the same way, leaving a shredded field of topographic characters whose 'miraculous' legibility gives further meaning to the poignant personal narrative Spector has written. A PASSAGE reminds us that the story a book tells its readers is a response to the caresses they bestow upon it.
Offset printing on Mohawk Superfine.
Exhibition notes: Item 64 on Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, with some South African Books from Other Collections.
Johannesburg Art Gallery
25 August to 27 October 1996
Item 8 on TEXTures: an exhibition of texts, textures and structure in artists’ books.
Archives & Special Collections, University of Johannesburg