Search: International Artists Books


Introduction |  Basic |  Guided |  Advanced |  Tips


    Full Details


Passport
615121

Item date(s): 2002

Fola Crannog  - (pseudonym)
Nancy Ruth Leavitt  - (book artist)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 130mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: One of 50 copies


Place publication: Stillwater, Maine
Publisher: The Tomato Press

Additional notes:
"You are holding a democratic multiple." One of 50 or so copies on various papers.

Hand dewn with black thread and bound with blue polypropylene materialthat is collaged with file folder letters in blue and orange, "F" and "C" on the front and ")@" on the back. Housed in a tan envelope with cancelled stamps and airmail stickers. Nancy Leavitt and three students created this "fluxus" stype book in the form of a passsport. The text has part of the preamble of the United Nations "determined to rpactice tolerance and live together in peace" as well as "Information for Humanity" and "Tips for Tolerance". Various postage stamps are collaged on pages along with rubber stamps and numbers. Crannog in Celtic means an island in the middle of a stream and Fola means fluxus. Nancy and her students, using the name of Fola Crannot - their imagined friend - have created a plea for international peace.

Ref: GB/12582







© Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts (JGCBA). All rights reserved.