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Book for Dada

Item date(s): 1992

Judith Mason

Pages: unpaged
Size: 168mm
Inscription: Signed and dated and inscribed by the artist.
Edition: One of 2 copies

Place publication: Daljosaphat, RSA
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
Colophon: "Made on reject River Reed paper and bound in goat skin tanned at the Kuru Bushman Development Project at D'Kar in the Kalahari where Dada lives and works. One of two similar copies, the other of which belongs to Judith Mason's travelling library".

Reference note:
Mason states: “The Nharo San Artist Named Coinx’ ai Qgam, known to her friends as Dada says that books mean nothing to her – She says that they are pages filled with the tracks of birds.”

Exhibition notes:
‘Small editions’, Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Johannesburg. 14 October 2021 – 28 January 2022

Gaia: Dialogue between the book arts, natural sciences & plant humanities. JBCBA, WAM. Curated by David Paton & Ciara Struwig. 16 September – 12 December 2025

Ref: GB/04195