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Shadow Play

Item date(s): 1998

Melinda Kennedy - (poems by)
Ann M. Kresge - (book artist)

Pages: unpaged
Size: 370mm, oblong

Type: Accordion fold - complex

Place publication: Washington, DC
Publisher: The National Museum of Women in the Arts

Additional notes:
Colophon and Further Description: Consists of six illustrated cut-out shadow puppets, with movable parts, fastened to sticks backed with velcro, and mounted on inner lids of portfolio. Includes a volume constructed to resemble a puppet stage, with eight semi-transparent leaves. Puppets can be set in motion in front of, or behind the stage, by shining a light behind the puppets to project their shadows through the leaves.

Accompanied by booklet (two sheets, 26 x 106 cm. folded to 26 x 14 cm.), which describes, in poems, the puppet characters and suggests story types.

"This limited edition of 125 handmade books was created for and disseminated by the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts ... produced by the artist in her studio, Mossybrook Press in High Falls, N.Y. and at WSW in Rosendale, N.Y. The poems are by Melinda Kennedy and the other text was collaboratively written. The type, New York (Macintosh) and Avant Garde, was letterpress printed by the artist on a Vandercock Press. Various archival, acid free and Asian papers were used including Abaca (banana leaf) paper which was handmade by the artist. Printmaking processes combine etching, relief and chine colle. Production assistance was provided by Val Wells, Amy Ciullo, and Suzanne Taetzsch"--Colophon.

Reference note:
The Library Fellows.

Fold-out stage with cut-out puppets.

With accordion pamphlet with instructions and text.

Exhibition notes:
leporello

JGCBA, WAM

24 September – 13 December 2024

Ref: GB/12976