COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
The Windhover
Creator:
Sweet, Pat, 1951-
Description:
This miniature book by Pat Sweet received the Annual Distinguished Book Award at the 2018 annual conclave of the Miniature Book Society. She writes of her book: "The kestrel Hopkins saw that May morning in 1877 became one of the most beautiful and breathtaking sonnets of the 19th century. Hopkins, a great technical poet and the creator of the poetical device known as 'sprung rhythm,' was inspired by the sight of the hovering bird to a mystical connection with something beyond and above nature. The poem is dedicated 'To Christ our Lord.'" She continues: "I've tried to do justice to the complexity and delight of the poem by using a complicated little dos-à-dos binding, with the poem in the middle. The two outer folds open to reveal a pop-up pair of fold-out wings, their colors taken from the American kestrel. The book is bound in paper printed with a blue sky with fleecy clouds. The book is enclosed in a slipcase bound in the same paper."
Subject:
Birds
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Clouds
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Religion in art
Subject:
Women artists
Publisher:
Bo Press
Contributor:
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889
Date:
2017
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
34 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 70 mm ; issued in slipcase.
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Dos-à-dos bindings
Format/Medium:
Miniature books
Format/Medium:
Pop-up books
Format/Medium:
Slipcases
Source:
The Windhover, 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:
b18217953
Identifier:
i1379906x
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
