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Terror, Terror
A book of poems are invitations to jump in the lake.

Item date(s): 1977

Ken Campbell

Pages: unpaged
Size: 231mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist.

Place publication: n. p.
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
Unnumbered edition. Pictorial wrappers, double-folded either side of a perfect binding. Scarlet end-papers. Bound with an oriental fore-edge throughout. Text printed letterpress using sans serif wood type, the individual words pinned to a wall and photographed at varying angles both during the act of assembly and after completion, the resultng images printed offset (in black-and-white) on an office rotary press by Dennis Marriner. In this early work Ken Campbell explores the ambiguity of the page, the process of revealing and then concealing words which has been continued in his subsequent work. At first the book arrears to lay bare the act of creation, through an assemblage of photographs which reveal the artist in the studio, the proof press on which the wrods were created and colour sensitivity charts, as well as the text itself. Yet the ambivalent structure of the book, the distortion of the image by overlay and over-exposure and the 'broken poetics' of the text, gesture towards the complexities - and terror - implicit in the act of reading.

Ref: GB/11377