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The Abandoned Star Factory
(In Celebration of the Discovery of)

Item date(s): 1982

David Horton  - (book artist)
Arthur Freed  - (afterword by)


Pages: 16pp
Size: 250mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist

Type: Pop-up; String book
Sub-type: Movable books

Place publication: Atlanta, GA
Publisher: Nexus Press
Cat. 071-C6-4/5
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Atlanta, Georgia: Nexus Press, 1982. 10 x 8.5"; 24 pages. Contents: Photograph, Sand dune, Colorado, 1976; Photograph, Amity pyramid series, New York, 1977; Collage, replica of the first white folded paper collage, 1977; Photograph, Apeiron Room, New York, 1980; Collage, Celebration series, 1982 ; Photograph, Pyramid still-life series, 1981; Collage, Celebration series, 1982; Photograph, Pyramid still-life series, 1981; Representation of Flying pyramid sculpture over New York, 1978; Photograph, Pyramid still-life series, 1980; Silkscreen polarization of Pyramid still-life, 1982; Photograph, Pyramid still-life series, 1981; Drawing, Main characters, 1982; Photograph, Main characters, 1982; Silver print, At the Abandoned Star Factory, 1979. Black and white images on regular photographic paper. Two images mounted,. Collage constructions of white paper, glassine, cut-outs, and string. Frontispiece photograph in glassine envelope. One photograph in an envelope attached to the page. Pocket attached to back pastedown with folded "afterwords" inserted. Bound in cloth covered boards.

Brooklyn Museum of Art catalog: "Juxtaposes collage pop-up constructions (on the left page) with photographs (on the right page) of what the pop-ups might look like as photographs. The constructions are connected to the corresponding photographs by a string which runs throughout the book. If the string is pulled, the construction becomes three-dimensional."

Exhibition notes:
Item 071 - C6-4/5/6 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/11779


   


   



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