Thursday, February 18, 2010

Singing Note, 1975

From William Wegman: Photographic Works 1969-76, F.R.A.C. Limousin, 1991

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

EUGENE VON BRUENCHENHEIN: Arrow maker and Plant man

The artist's home, 1983, from Eugene Von Bruenchenhein: Obsessive Visionary, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, 1988.
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein
Freelance Artist
Poet and Sculptor
Inovator [sic]
Arrow maker and Plant man
Bone artifacts constructor
Photographer and Architect
Philosopher
(from an engraved plaque in the artist's kitchen)
Eugene Von Bruenchenhein 1910-1983

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

back cover of Playing With Plastics by Barbara Jean Rodgers, Domtar (Javex Division), Toronto (no date)

Lichtimdunkel by Joachim Ulrich, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin, 1958

Monday, February 15, 2010

There is no birth of consciousness without pain


...
The Big Orange Thing by Jerry Juhl, illustrated by Charles E. Martin, Bradbury Press, 1969.

I found this book thanks to VKBMKL

Sunday, February 14, 2010

sweethearts by Emmett Williams, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart 1967. Original numbered edition of 500 (republished by Something Else Press, 1967)

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Marion Tuu'luq (Baker Lake)


From Marion Tuu'luq, National Gallery Of Canada, Ottawa, 2002
above wall hangings 1976-1989 (felt, embroidery floss and thread on stroud or duffle)
Marion Tuu'luq (Baker Lake, Nunavut) 1921-2002

Turn on your head lights, don't get lost dear.

Kath Bloom and Loren Connors, 4 rare records reissued thanks to Chapter Music (AU).

back to back, all day, everyday. supernatural.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Harald Stoffers


Harald Stoffers: Briefe (letters), Gallerie der Villa/Revolver, Hamburg, 2004

Thursday, February 11, 2010

UKR 891 .759 859


1961

YO-YO, BOLO AND BOUNCERS

Selection of chapter headings from Steven Caney's PLAY BOOK, Workman Publishing, 1975. "Summary: Projects, constructions, games, puzzles, and other activities for children organized according to the spaces they play."
(see also: room weaving)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Jessie Oonark (Baker Lake)




From Power of Thought: The Prints of Jessie Oonark, Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, VA, 2001. (Top to bottom: Fish With Ulus, stencil on paper, 1981; Two Birds Guard Sleeping Kiviuk, linocut and stencil on paper, 1981; My Dream Of A Person With Birds, linocut and stencil on paper, 1981; Strange Huge Inuk, stonecut and stencil on paper, 1983)

Jessie Oonark (Baker Lake, Nunavut) 1906-1985

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Monday, February 8, 2010

Fredun Shapur







endpapers
Round and Round and Square by Fredun Shapur, Abelard-Schuman, 1965 (reprinted 1968) (Shapur was also a designer for Trendon and Creative Playthings)