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Today we are flipping through this great new pop-up book recently added to our collection, Blue 2 by David A. Carter (GV1507 .P47 C3 2006 Cage).
To see anything in our special collections, please ask a reference librarian for assistance.
WEIRD FORMAT WEDNESDAY: Pablo Picasso’s Guernica : the 42 preliminary studies on paper reproduced in facsimile, 1990
This book is 2 feet long and consists of a booklet and 31 plates. This facsimile includes an introduction and commentary by the curator of The Picasso Museum in Paris, Marie-Laure Bernadac. Throughout the plates, you can observe Picasso’s process, to peek into his genius.
Picasso’s enormous black and white painting, Guernica, was completed in June of 1937. It is considered one of the most powerful anti-war paintings created.
Find it in the catalog
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Typography Tuesday
Today we present Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights, published in a limited edition of 140 copies by The Allen Press in 1980 (another donation from our great friend Jerry Buff). The English text is exquisitely set in the cursive Arrighi (see our previous post on Arrighi types) and printed in blue.The Persian calligraphy is by Victor Seward; twelve are stamped in 23-carat gold leaf, with the remainder printed in blue, orange, and green. The double columns of Arrighi are divided by passages from the Koran set in Arabic type and printed in green. The pen and ink drawings reproduced from metal plates are by the noted French artist Michele Forgeois.
The Arrighi type, selected to harmonize with the Persian calligraphy, was set by Monotype and then re-set by hand. The entire work was hand-printed on a Columbian handpress by Lewis and Dorothy Allen on damp, all-rag paper handmade and watermarked especially for The Allen Press at St. Cuthberts Mill in England. The box is by the Cardoza-James Binding Company.
Beautiful
Life is better with pie. And now, by popular demand, our Printer's Pie $20 Fundraiser is a semi-annual event!
The pies will be fresh-baked the morning of pick-up, and whether you choose a classic like pumpkin or something unexpected (and delicious) like black bottom rum, you will also get to come in and hand-print our first ever autumnal pie poster. (Featured above is last spring's design).
macrolit:
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
A beautiful copy of book that started it all.
This lovely gentleman is a part of our current exhibition, "A guest + a host = a ghost." The work on display is all a part of SMS, a publication of sorts launched in 1968 by artist William Copley, and filled with work by some of the most historically significant artists we've ever shown.
Influenced by surrealist and fluxus concepts, Copley sought to bridge the gap between art and life while also circumventing a convoluted and stagnant gallery system by providing art directly to subscribers through the mail. SMS embraced all sorts of art and artists, some whose names you'll recognize and others you've likely never heard of. "Like an astronomer's time-lapse photograph," wrote Carter Ratcliff in 1988, "SMS caught many bright and familiar stars. It also registered the presence of the most elusive comets." Marcel Duchamp was one of these bright and familiar stars (and his contribution to SMS provides our exhibition title). You'll also see work in this collection from Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Christo, Claes Oldenburg, Dick Higgins, Yoko Ono, and composers Terry Riley and John Cage.
Oh, and uh, if you think you can tell us for certain the identity and illustrator of the gentleman above, please do. We have some good guesses, but we'd love to hear what you think, since we can't actually find a conclusive answer. The complete run of SMS has been donated to JCBA, and is now a part of our permanent collection.
Ready to celebrate even more obscure holidays? The gentlemen over at Convivio Bookworks just cranked out these vibrant, postcard-sized prints in honor of Copperman's Day (a holiday which, when googled, yields their website as the first search result).
Proceeds are split between Convivio and JCBA, raising much needed funds for the center in preparation for a few upcoming events.
Only $3 at the front desk, and you walk away with a little reminder to stay positive.
This past Tuesday, we gave a papermaking workshop to a group of ladies from a local art guild.
Fortunately, we were long overdue for a visit from Tom Balbo. Tom is a splendid papermaker, and the Artistic Director of the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio. Needless to say, our guests were certainly not the only ones learning in that class. He shared with us years of history and experience that you can only get from a seasoned professional. I'm sure our Paper Lab is pleased to have been operating so smoothly.
Lucky? Perhaps we are. Grateful? Absolutely.
This is our current JCBA introductory video, and we're ready to replace it.
A lot of this information is outdated, and we'd like the new one to be about fifteen to twenty minutes. It's tricky explaining the book arts to an unfamiliar audience, so we often play the film to first-time tour groups.
We'd love to give the opportunity to make this film to a student, particularly seeing as we're a part of a university. If you're interested in making something fresh, engaging, and able to stand the test of time, please connect us to some examples of your previous work and tell us a little bit about yourself.
Contact:
Brooke Frank, Student Assistant
At 7PM tonight, our director, John Cutrone, will be lecturing as a part of the launch for their exhibition, “Tracey Emin: Angel without You”. Galleries will be open until 9 pm.
Our AIR Tom Virgin hard at work. We figured you might like to see how this works from the inside.
In the wake of Veterans Day, we'd like to share a couple of pieces of Arthur's military ephemera. He'll talk to anyone who asks. Arthur could tell you much better thank I could what exactly his part was in this war, but here we have an award and a chaplain's letter pertaining to his exceptional service. Thank you, Arthur. For everything.
Meet Tom Virgin, our Fall 2013 Artist in Residence!
Wednesday saw him pulling his first print on our Vandercook proofing press for his project. Rather than hand-setting the type in the bed of our press, Tom had polymer plates made of everything he needs printed. It saves him time and offers him more design options than traditional relief and letterpress, and it's been a widely utilized method of combining digital and traditional media amongst printmakers for several years now.
the "Conversation Too". It's a collaboration that Tom is orchestrating and participating in between several Miami artists and writers, a process we're sure he's mastered in the wake of the ambitious (and successful) collaborative project, "SWEAT", in which he was artistically and organizationally key. We'll be posting more on his process and project as the semester continues.
The Writers: Michael Hettich, John Dufresne, and Yaddyra Peralta.
The Artists: Kari Snyder and Laura Tan.
If you've never met Tom, keep an eye on our emails (because trust us, you're missing out). It's been busy, so it's been hard to get our workshop schedule together, but as a part of his residency here, Tom will be giving an artist talk and a workshop. We've had to postpone them until spring.
A little belated, but these are the photos from the gallery closing of an exhibition of work produced by Angel DiCosola's Art Journaling class. The class, which pushes artist's to develop their ideas and experiment with unconventional methods and mediums, will be offered again this coming summer as a part of a six-week study abroad program in Orvieto, Italy.
It's Letterpress Appreciation Day! We do this on the 18th of every September (because 0.918 inches is the height of the type used in letterpress printing). You can come in and print this year's poster on our storied Wesel Iron Handpress. As always, we have coffee, tea, and delicious cookies waiting for you.
Today, our Spring 2013 Artist in Residence, Paula Marie Gourley, embarks upon her journey back west. Paula applied to our Helen M. Salzberg Artist in Residence Program with a proposal for a book entitled, "A Visit to Cross Creek." Though it should be noted that the edition in its details includes a wide range of subtle and surprising variations, every copy is fine and handcrafted, containing two essays (one by the artist and one by our very own director, John Cutrone), and a number of photos the artist took on her own visit to Cross Creek, the home of the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the Yearling, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
The book, through it's text, images, and materials, brings you directly into the Florida scrub. It draws attention to the life, movement, and serenity present in the place which has inspired so many visitors, and which is too often only glanced through by those who've never known how to look. "A Visit to Cross Creek" is a viewfinder for the historic site. It directs you to the details that filled Marjorie's life and explores the tremendous influence that her work and her surroundings have had on so many makers and thinkers since her time.
Paula's stay here has done quite a similar thing for us. Her seemingly endless wealth of information, patience, and ardor for the book and for life has been (and will continue to be) a tremendous resource, and her accessibility has brought more attention to the craft and the medium to the public and to us.
It's been wonderful having you, Paula. We know this won't be the last we see of you.
More on our next AIR, Tom Virgin, later on! He begins his Fall 2013 residency very, very soon.
Our Student Assistant, Brooke Frank, has been giving Arthur Jaffe Facebook lessons. He's taking to it well, but it was decided that a colorful cheat sheet might make things a little simpler.
