COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
Leçons de livre pour Calyban : ou Prosper's Parisian printing parade : bon mots, bagatelles, & tableaux de l'imprimerie : also a sometime type specimen & leaf book as told to an American
Creator:
McMurray, Mark
Creator:
Aerosol, Jef
Description:
Issued in a paper slipcase. Title on the slipcase is French Lessons. Announcement: "Printed in several colours on cylinder and hand presses from foundry, monotype, photopolymer & wood types set by hand, machine composition and computer. The primary face is Garamond. Additional faces include Fournier, Caslon, Nicholas Cochin and various 19th century faces. Monotype composition by Michael Bixler, Skeaneateles, NY. Photopolymer plates by Boxcar Press, Syracuse, NY." Colophon: "Almost 114 copies were printed & bound by various hands in the land between the lands"
Subject:
Artistic collaboration
Subject:
Assemblage (Art)
Subject:
Capitalism
Subject:
Emigration and immigration
Subject:
Expatriation
Subject:
Graphic design (Typography)
Subject:
Illustration of books
Subject:
Language and languages in art
Subject:
Maps in art
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Travel
Publisher:
Cat's Head Press
Date:
2008
Coverage:
Paris (France)
Coverage:
France
Language:
English
Language:
French
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Collages
Format/Medium:
Found objects
Format/Medium:
Hand composition
Format/Medium:
Handmade paper
Format/Medium:
Japanese paper (handmade paper)
Format/Medium:
Kochi paper
Format/Medium:
Letterpress printing
Format/Medium:
Lotka paper
Format/Medium:
Photopolymer plates (printing plates)
Format/Medium:
Pochoir (technique)
Format/Medium:
Relief prints
Format/Medium:
Stenciling (process)
Format/Medium:
Toy and movable books
Source:
Leçons de livre pour Calyban : ou Prosper's Parisian printing parade : bon mots, bagatelles, & tableaux de l'imprimerie : also a sometime type specimen & leaf book as told to an American, 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:
b13016301
Identifier:
i12498166
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
