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Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song

Item date(s): 2002

Donald Glaister


Pages: unpaged
Size: 370mm
Edition: #29/60


Place publication: Cleveland, OH
Publisher: Artists Book
Cat. 068-C6-4/5
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Made at Foolsgold Studio. Painted with acrylic paint on sanded 10mil aluminium pages attached to paper hinges. The abstract assemblages are likewise made on sanded aluminium with acrylic paint, wire, aluminium tape, laminated polyester film and sand, and are attached to the aluminium pages. The quarter leather bindings made of Nigerian goatskin with painted aluminium sides. The volume is housed in a felt-lined aluminium box. Signed by the artist. Prospectus laid in.

In addition a single hanging print in the same style by Donald Glaister was produced to accompany the book in an edition of 20: this is number 9 and is signed by the artist.

The wall-hanging is featured in Celebrating our Twentieth Anniversary - Joshua Heller Rare Books, Spring/Summer, 2005.

Illustrated on page 29 of Resonance and Response by Ruth R. Rogers, 2005.

Illustrated on page 12 of Guild of Book Workers: 100th Anniversary Exhibition, 2006.

See also: AB/3531

Exhibition notes:
Item 068 - 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/2405


   


   



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