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)

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Fire Inside My Hat by Reiko Kudo, ORG Records, 1997 (cover drawing by Reiko Kudo)
"...tomorrow/walls of hospital will fall/every jail will be/opened toward the heaven..."

Saturday, February 6, 2010

double-sided snowman, December 2009
October 2009

Wooden Books


Isaiah Berlin, c.1988 and Library, 1986-7
From Saul Steinberg: Illuminations, Yale University Press, 2006

Friday, February 5, 2010

Fritz Der Wolkenfahrer









Fritz Der Wolkenfahrer (Fritz The Cloud Driver), Karl Behrens and Franz Kiesewetter, Hermann Schaffstein Verlag, Cologne, no date (1948 or 1950?)

For Good

From The Best of Love: A Collection of Children's Sayings compiled by Nanette Newman, Collins, Glasgow 1985 (credit: Peter age 6)

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Snøvsen og Eigil og katten i sækken


Benny Andersen: Snøvsen og Eigil og katten i sækken (The Tizzy and Eigil and the Cat in the Bag), Borgen, Copenhagen 1967

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Meditation Aid

Anonymous, Untitled, 1997. Jaïpur. Gouache, watercolor, and tempera on paper
From the Drawing Center exhibition FIELD OF COLOR: Tantra Drawings From India (Drawing Papers 50) 2004

Sky 063

Curiosum by Cluster, Sky Records 1981
cover by Moebius

Monday, February 1, 2010

Remy Charlip: It Looks Like Snow



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It Looks Like Snow by Remy Charlip, Young Scott Books, 1957 [32]pp
For John Cage
Set by hand and printed by Igal Roodenko in and edition of 750
Wraparound cover, constructed to be mailed. This one wasn't.

The book was reprinted by William Morrow and Co. in 1983 and again in french as On Dirait Qu'il Neige by Edition Les Trois Ourses in 2000. Apparently, Bruno Munari responded with his own book Little White Riding Hood (Cappuccetto Bianco), Corraini, 1999.

AUGUST WALLA


August Walla: Sein Leben & Seine Kunst by Leo Navratil, Greno, 1988

I can't say enough about this incredible book. I only wish someone would bring it back into print as an english edition.

August Walla b 1936 lived in the Gugging House Of Artists in Vienna from 1983 until his death in 2001.