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Young Masters and Misses

Item date(s): 1984

Telfer Stokes


Pages: unpaged
Size: 190mm


Publisher: Weproductions

Additional notes:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Printed offset with some full color. Section sewn paper covers - found architectural images on the left-hand pages, texts on the right. Rubbed at spine.

One in a series of five books published between 1979 - 1987.

Weproductions: "This series of five books ... 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. ... Young Masters and Misses ... utilizes contrasting qualities of half-tone screening in offset printing.

"The several modes of storytelling in this book relate to different layers of time. The snapshots of renaissance buildings evoke the distant past in the present while the people in the scenes and text portray the recent past in the present. The photo realism of the imposed objects that sit on the pages and break them up as illusionistic windows, suggest the present or the present now past. Commissioned by Riva Castleman, this book is one of a series published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York."

Ref: GB/6243







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