COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
First Visit
Creator:
Langworthy, Sara
Description:
Six leaves of board, each cut out to form a rectangular frame and covered with black cloth; each frame has a rectangular transparency (etching) inset and held in place with bookbinder's thread. Transparencies may be viewed from recto and verso. Back and front covers are gray cloth boards with smaller transparencies inset near black cloth spine. Colophon: "Conceived and assembled in the cold, using transparencies of etchings, UICB koza, Japanese book cloth, and 2-ply museum board. 40 books were made during the winter of 2001." Women's Studio Workshop website: "Suspended in framed window cuts, these subtle changing images on acetate convey the displaced passing of time that can accompany a series of sleepless nights."
Subject:
Insomnia
Subject:
Light
Subject:
Night
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Sleep
Subject:
Trees
Subject:
Women artists
Publisher:
Coreopsis Press
Publisher:
Women's Studio Workshop
Date:
2001
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
6 unnumbered leaves of plates : chiefly illustrated ; 23 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Acetate film
Format/Medium:
Cloth
Format/Medium:
Etching (printing process)
Format/Medium:
Hardcover books
Format/Medium:
Thread
Format/Medium:
Transparencies
Source:
First Visit, 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:
b12296491
Identifier:
i11581013
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
