Robin Price
- (book artist) Yusef Komunyakaa
- (poems by) Daniel E. Kelm
- (bookbinding by)
Pages: unpaged Size: 270mm Inscription: Signed by all participants Edition: #23/70
Place publication: Middletown, CN Publisher: Robin Price ISBN: 0-924433-14-0 Cat. 144-C5-2/3 Exhibition 2017; 2022
Additional notes: Published in its entirely here for the first time. The 25 poems are printed letterpress with silver ink in Adobe Jenson Pro from polymer plates. The sheets are individually painted, hand-dyed silk; 320 years were used for the edition. Small pieces of Moriki paper and printed glassine are sewn inside the foredge-folded sheets. The aluminum covers are photochemically etched in a pattern based on camouflage fabric. Daniel E. Kelm co-designed the modified paper-case book structure using handmade Cave Paper, and he produced the binding at his Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Prospectum and letter laid in.
Exhibition notes: Item 0144 - C5-2/3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.
UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg
25 March to 5 May 2017
‘Celebrating one hundred years: The rise and development of the artists book over the last 100 years.’