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Aunt Sallie's Lament

Item date(s): 2004

Margaret Kaufman
Claire Van Vliet  - (book artist)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 305mm
Binding: Designer binding
Inscription: Inscribed for Jack Ginsberg
Edition: One of 120 copies

Sub-type: Altered book

Place publication: Newark, VT
Publisher: The Janus Press
Exhibition 1996

Additional notes:
Signed by the four Designers. This edition was made using the Permalin text block of the 1993 edition by Chronicle Books. Additional papers are: the cover of Barcham Green DeWint plus Sage Badger, Chiyogami, Fabriano, Janus, Langdell, Katie MacGregor and Marble-smith.

Designed by Claire Van Vliet, based on a binding structure developed by Hedi Kyle and made with Linda Wray. The first and last leaves are in the shape of a diamond with one corner cut off. Inner leaves are cut in various shapes with the the text of the poem on verso pages. The overlapping pieces resemble a pieced quilt square when viewed together. The words of the poem are seen in various combinations. The leaves are joined with strips of colored paper inserted in slots so that the whole can be extended accordion-style to reveal all the stanzas of the poem. The volume is issued in a case made by Judi Conant of Guildhall, Vermond and covered with blue patterned cloth.

Illustrated on page 57 of Book Arts in the USA by Richard Minsky, 1990.

Illustrated on page 17 of Masters: Book Arts, curated by Eileen Wallace, 2011.

Illustrated in Text as Inspiration: Artists' Books and Literature, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 2011.

Included in the special exhibition at the Library of Congress on 19th April, 2013 for CODEX Mexico.

See also the original 1988 edition: GB/3389

Ref: GB/7407







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