Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012

Artists' Books and Multiples

Visit Dave Dyment's fantastic new blog Artists' Books and Multiples
'Dedicated to Artists’ books, multiples, recordings, postcards, magazines and ephemera, this site will feature reviews of recent titles, features on artists and publishers, random listings of older works, the occasional longer essay or interview, straight-forward pictorials, links to recent news, etc. etc., in an attempt to create an aggregate of information on editioned artworks.'


towers in watts

Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts: A photographic exhibition by Seymour Rosen, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1962 (thanks p+w!)
previously here and here

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The Dead Bird

from The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Remy Charlip, Young Scott Books, NY, 1958 (text 1938)

also here...and all previous Remy Charlip here.

Monday, January 16, 2012

nothing was everywhere

from God Made The World by Gerald Pottebaum, illustrated by Robert Strobridge, Little People's Paperback, The Seabury Press, NY, 1963/1979
previously and related

and also maybe.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Art Education 19

from Clay in the Classroom: A Means to Creative Expression by George Barford, Davis Publications, 1963

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from Knowabout Length by Henry Pluckrose, photographs by Chris Fairclough, Franklin Watts, 1988

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, NY, 1976, 1978

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

and so to

And So To Embroider: An Introduction to Embroidery, University of London Press, London, 1960
Blue and White: The Cotton Embroidery of Rural China by Muriel Baker and Margaret Lunt, Scribners, 1977 (previously)---Somehow, I never thought to look under the dust jacket until today. Always look under the dust jacket.
Embroidery by Jane Simpson, Octopus Books, London, 1973

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(detail from) The Animal Fair by Alice and Martin Provensen, Golden Press, NY, 1973