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Abab

Item date(s): 1984

Ken Campbell  - (book artist)
Jim Birnie  - (printed by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 342mm
Binding: Wooden boards cover; Slipcase - green
Inscription: Signed by the artist
Edition: #31/50

Type: Accordion fold

Place publication: Norwich, UK
Publisher: Artists Book

Additional notes:
Written and designed by Ken Campbell during his Brinkley Fellowship in the Department of Graphic Design at Norwich School of Art 1983-4.

on 100 gsm Heritage Rag, acid free.

Accordion fold pasted onto wooden boards on first and last pages. Housed in a green slipcase.

The text flows, on four lines in three types, throughout the accordion.

First line in large uppercase blue:

Imagine an ocean Image an otion Imagine an ocean Imagine an otion Imagine an Ocean Imanine an otion. Imagin an otion Imagin an ocean

Second line:

Incomprehensible green letters

Third line in smaller uppercase brown:

A: "Think of a sea."

B: "You mean the letter?"

A: "No, an ocean made of paper,upon which sits an open book: made of galss. On the water in the book bobs a bottle made of paper. The ship, afloat upon the label, we name the Cutty Sark.

B: "Is that what you are going to do?"

A; "It just goot done."

Fourth line: the same as the third line in the same lower case green as the second line.

Ref: GB/14364







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