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Harriet Bart, Penumbra, (paper sheet), (linen), 1976-1977 [Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. © Harriet Bart]

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Books On Books Collection - Caroline Penn

Books On Books Collection – Caroline Penn

Standen (2014)

Standen (2014) Caroline Penn Altered book, overprinted digitally, cut with a scalpel and rebound with thread. H210 x W140. Acquired from the artist, 9 June 2020. Photos: Books On Books Collection.

The William Morris wallpapers in Standen House, an Arts & Crafts home in Sussex, and the memory of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story “The Yellow Wallpaper” inspired the creation of…

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Fine Press Friday: The Poetry of Chance Encounters 

Minneapolis visual artist Harriet Bart, fine-press printer Philip Gallo of The Hermetic Press, and bookbinder Jill Jevne are the recipients of the 2015 Minnesota Book Artist Award for their latest collaboration, Ghost Maps. Since 2000, Bart, Gallo, and Jevne have collaborated to produce ten artist books, two of which have been honored with Minnesota Book Awards in the Fine Press category. To celebrate this year's achievement, we present one of those earlier award-winning collaborations, The Poetry of Chance Encounters published in 2003, and the recipient of the 2004 Minnesota Book Award for Fine Press. The book was conceived and directed by Harriet Bart through her Mnemonic Press imprint, and  printed in collaboration with Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press in a limited edition of 35 copies and 5 artist's proofs on Rives BFK paper. Jill Jevne bound the edition in full goatskin leather with a single raised band, and created the slipcase with gold paste paper by Claire Maziarcyzk and an edging of goatskin over boards.

Harriet Bart describes The Poetry of Chance Encounters as "a contemporary book of devotions, an illuminated manuscript of surrealist games of chance. It brings together in evocative pairings of image and text, the artist’s love of the written language and her passion for the found objects that have been part of the iconography of her sculpture for years." The book contains sixteen visual poems on multi-color fields, each imprinted with an icon in 22 karat gold. Each page has a total of five press runs, including a varnish over the icon and field, giving the icon an embossed appearance on the page. Although very complex in its assemblage, the overall treatment of the book is spare, presenting a progression of striking glyphic spaces covering the span of human encoding.

Congratulations Harriet, Phil, and Jill!!

Find it in the catalog here.

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Harriet Bart, “Enduring Afghanistan,” dog tags, ball chain, chain link, vintage ledger with fine press ledger pages, Koran stand, steel table. 2008-ongoing About her work, the artist writes: For more than thirty years, I have had a deep and abiding interest in the personal and cultural expression of memory. It is at the core of my work. Using bronze and stone, wood and paper, books and words, everyday and found objects, I seek to signify a site, mark an event, and otherwise draw attention to imprints of the past as they live in the present. Each of my extensive bodies of work begins with fascination (with a subject or an object), and moves forward with intensely focused research that leads to the creation of a body of work. It is my intent to create evocative content through the narrative power of objects, the theater of installation, and the intimacy of the artists’ book. As a cultural storyteller, I have created a number of installations, mixed media objects, and books that explore the personal and cultural expression of memory.

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Harriet Bart, “Drawn in Smoke” (detail), 160 drawings of smoke and ink on paper, commemorating each of those killed, 1911 NYC Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

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Harriet Bart, “Autobiography” (detail), test tubes, corks, beeswax, aluminum, transmuted miscellany, logue. 2011

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Harriet Bart

Without Words, 1997