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Parallel

Item date(s): 1980

Kevin Osborn


Pages: unpaged
Size: 320mm
Edition: One of 500 copies

Type: Shaped book - triangle

Place publication: Atlanta, GA
Publisher: Nexus Press

Additional notes:
Triangular book 292x292x320mm. Signed

Clive Phillpot, Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Source Book, p. 127: "The sheets which make up the pages have not been folded conventionally, but from corner to corner, so that the book is a triangle which opens up into a diamond-shaped double spread. 'Parallel' is a very quiet book. On creamy-colored paper the faintest pastel-colored inks have been laid down, so that the abstract imagery only becomes visible as the book is angled into and out of the light. The center pages appear to be completely blank at first sight, but actually bear one almost invisible word repeated right across the page from corner to corner. The imagery, though muted, appears very busy at the beginning and the end of the book when contrasted with the virtually empty pages at the still center of the book."

Ref: GB/4882







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