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New Doors

Item date(s): 1985

Clifton Meador


Pages: unpaged
Size: 222mm


Place publication: Atlanta, GA
Publisher: Nexus Press

Additional notes:
Shaped book with page cut-outs.

Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists' Books, p. 208: "Images were made entirely with solid and perforation rule impressed into the sheets on a letterpress 7. Made in the shape of a house icon (pitched roof, straight walls), the single signature work has no color or language or other imagery in its interior (the cover has a bright pattern printed in three colors around the title). Each page has a differently designed 'door' - by which is meant an opening in the page. Because these designs are impressed with the straight or perforation rule, their lines frequently break the sheet, making their complex geometric forms read even more strongly. The work has the subtlety of a monochromatic piece and the complexity of a sculptural work - while the unfolding sequence in all its variety fascinates us like that of a kaleidoscope or a catalogue of snowflakes, every turning revealing another, different, but related form."

Ref: GB/4311







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