COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
The Language of Trees
Creator:
Watson, Gail
Description:
Artist's book designed to evoke a tree trunk, with nine poems about trees by different poets. Circular book with 10" diameter; 11 pages stacked on a wood base via a dowel in the middle. Colophon [leaf 12] tipped on wooden base. Circular wooden magnet closure to dowel. Numbered. Signature of artist letterpress printed on colophon. The 12 circular leaves of the book have blind embossed rings like a tree trunk. The leaves consist of the title page, nine poem pages, one permission page, and the colophon. Colophon: "Letterpress printed on the 1889 Chandler & Price platen press while keeping an eye on the Divide as winter moves from 2019 to 2020. Printed on Crane's Lettra double-thick cover stacked on a wood base. The typefaces are Gotham by Tobia Frere-Jones and Bickham Script by Richard Lipton. Limited to an edition of 15."
Subject:
Nature in art
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Trees
Publisher:
Birdwood Press
Date:
2020
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
12 unnumbered leaves ; 26 x 26 x 5 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Blind embossing
Format/Medium:
Letterpress printing
Format/Medium:
Loose leaf
Format/Medium:
Magnets
Format/Medium:
Shaped books
Format/Medium:
Wood
Source:
The Language of Trees, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier:
b19342081
Identifier:
i13989492
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
