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MIM

Item date(s): 1986

Telfer Stokes


Pages: unpaged
Size: 190mm


Place publication: Yarrow, Scotland
Publisher: Weproductions

Additional notes:
One of a series of five books published between 1970 - 1987.

Weproductions: "This series ... demonstrate a widening vocabulary in book art, particularly in the innovative combination of text and image. Also, the artists' varied use of printing processes, made possible through the setting up of their press and collaboration with other presses in the USA, becomes an additional level in the developing language of the book. ... Mim, explore[s] the splicing and overlay of imagery and print made possible through the artists' hands on access to the offset reprographic process.

"Mim develops different aspects reading on the subject of mimicry. Mimincry in the image, a model whose clothing in various way mimics the background she is posed against: the discursive text whose column formation works spatially in relation to the image and the different papers both in texture and colour that this book is printed on.

VSW Archive: "Many of the pages are printed on wallpaper samples, the book also includes unprinted samples, including covers of flocked flowered wallpaper, photographs of department store mannequins as well as related patterns and textures. Texts are about garments, skin and patterns. The sheets were printed on only one side, so when the book was bound, every other double-page spread is unprinted, but not necessarily blank because of the variously textured papers used."

Ref: GB/6236







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