Thursday, March 18, 2010

FERGUS FEEHILY two books


two beautiful publications:
Fergus Feehily-Makeshifts and Endpapers, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, 2008 and Fergus Feehily-Pavilion, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2009
visit F.F. here
(thanks to PVK)
R.I.P. A.C.
you're a wasted face, you're a sad-eyed lie, you're a holocaust

Wednesday, March 17, 2010


Sun Ra, c. 1960's
cover by Harry Ford, 1958

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Remy Charlip: Where Is Everybody?

Selected pages from:
Where is Everybody? by Remy Charlip. (originally published by Young Scott, 1957) This is a Scholastic reprint from 1969. Probably my favourite first and last page of any children's book.

More Charlip here

Monday, March 15, 2010

miscellaneous clippings, unknown sources

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Flieg Vogel Fliege by Roedelius, 1982
sky 078
(cover by Rosa Roedelius)

Saturday, March 13, 2010

endpapers from New Basic Course in Pitman Shorthand, Sir Isaac Pitman (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, 1964
WHAT THINGS ARE MADE OF by Bertha Morris Parker (The Basic Science Education Series, University of Chicago) Row, Peterson and Co., 1944

Friday, March 12, 2010


Selections from The Twomey Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1972 (12 pages, staple bound)

Jerry Twomey was a botanist and geneticist who collected over 4000 pieces of Inuit sculpture in 20 years, beginning 1950. His collection was acquired by the Province of Manitoba and is housed in The Winnipeg Art Gallery.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau, Le Livre de Poche, Paris (no date)
cover drawing by Jean Cocteau
HINDI 649 .65 908

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

From Egg-Carton Zoo by Rudi Haas and Hans Bloom, Oxford University Press, 1986

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Fredun Shapur: First Steps In Reading

The Christmas Tree (First Steps In Reading) by Kathleen Brooks, illustrated by Fredun Shapur, Benn, London,1966
Other books from this series include Blackie and the Wool, Spot and the Paint, and By The Pool, all from 1966. Unfortunately, the storytelling is uninspired, so I've only scanned the illustrations.

More Fredun Shapur here

Monday, March 8, 2010

Gummibandbild (rubber-band picture) by Dieter Roth, 1961, pigment, nails and rubber bands on plywood. Photo: Adda Ragnarsdóttir and Karl Roth playing with a Gummibandbild.

From Roth Time: A Dieter Roth Retrospective, MOMA & Lars Müller, 2003

see D.R. also here.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

found clipping, source unknown

What Spot? by Crosby Bonsall, Harper & Row, NY, 1963

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Paper Collage by Robin Capon, Charles T. Branford Co., Newton, Mass, 1975

"...Here then is a book whose text and illustrations stimulatingly introduce amateurs and teachers to an art technique with the unusual combination of the virtues of simplicity, cheapness and individuality."