A Moon Or A Button

A Moon or a Button: A Collection of First Picture Ideas by Ruth Krauss and Remy Charlip, Harper & Row, 1959

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Crictor

illustration detail from Crictor by Tomi Ungerer, 1958 (Scholastic, 1966)

Golden

an incomplete collection of Golden Guides, Golden Press 1950-1989

Inuit 1915-1925

from Inuit Art: An Anthology, Watson & Dwyer, Winnipeg, 1988

(examples from the "Historic Period": Bear, in horn, Chesterfield Inlet, 1915 / Bears, in stone, West coast of Hudson Bay, c. 1915 / Bear with spirit head, in ivory, Blacklead Islet, pre-1923 / Bear, in ivory, Cape Dorset, 1925 / Caribou, in ivory, Cape Dorset, 1925 / Dog, in ivory, North Baffin Island, c. 1920) photos by Jean Blodgett

William Wegman 1969-76

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

From top: Front cover (Reading Two Books, 1971) / Basic Shapes in Nature (Square), 1970 / Basic Shapes in Nature (Triangle), 1970 / Flying Saucer, 1970 / Display, 1970 / Crow, 1970 / Duck/Crow, 1970 / Hello, 1971 / Bomb, 1971 / Two Or Three Chairs, 1972 / Any News?, 1973 / Drop Leaf, 1974

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Another Look: Level C

Another Look (Level C) by Mary Ross Townley, Addison-Wesley, 1978. Designed by Patricia Rhodes and Malcolm Grear.

See also Level A and Level B

(Borrowed from the collection of Rob Wakshinski)

Jubilation!

Jubilation by Daniel and Mary Dauvin (Franciscan Missionary Family), American (Psalms Division), 1973

(handmade album cover---marker on blank jacket)

In an English forest (part 3)

endpapers from Creative Soft Toy Making by Pamela Peake, Collins Glasgow & London, 1974 (photographs by Ian Atkinson)
(part 1)

(part 2)

Take Over

Women of The World by Ivor Cutler and Linda Hirst, Rough Trade, 1983

(Women of the World b/w Counting song)

Women of the world, take over, because if you don’t the world will come to an end, and we haven't got long. Women of the world, take over, because if you don’t the world will come to an end, and we haven't got long. Men have had their shot, and look at where we've got. Women of the world, take over, because if you don’t the world will come to an end, and we haven't got long. Women of the world, take over, because if you don’t the world will come to an end, and we haven't got long. Women of the world, take over, because if you don’t the world will come to an end, and we haven't got long. Men have had their shot, and look at where we've got. Women of the world, take over, because if you don’t the world will come to an end, and we haven't got long. Women of the world, take over, because if you don’t the world will come to an end, and we haven't got long. Women of the world, take over, because if you don’t the world will come to an end, and we haven't got long.

A to B

one and another (with folded corner), acrylic and hardboard on hardboard, each panel is 6X8inches. (My contribution to the exhibition A to B)

A to B

1. An exhibition of artworks and objects having to do with order, sequence and consecutiveness, including pairs, successive things, lists, instructions, corrections and rules.

2. The exhibition will consist of existing artworks, new works made specifically for the exhibition, contemporary and archival photographs, books, items cut from newspapers, records, before and after photographs, commercial samples, historical conceptual art documents, games, and a variety of found items.

3. The exhibition will be presented primarily in a series of vitrines. Additionally, one site-specific work will be installed on the interior walls of the gallery, while another will be installed on the outside of the gallery, with vinyl lettering provided by The Lettering Shop.

4. The exhibition includes work by Micah Adams, Abbas Akhavan, Stephen Andrews, Cecilia Berkovic, Mike Billington, Michael Buckland, Paul Butler, Neil Campbell, Claude Closky, Greg Curnoe, Simon Cutts, Dean Drever, Michael Dumontier, Dave Dyment, Gerald Ferguson, Ingo Gerken, Charles Goldman, Dave Heath, Joel Herman, Spring Hurlbut, Tom Koken, Michael Maranda, Kelly Mark, John Marriott, Tom Molloy, Tania Mouraud, Ken Nicol, Roman Opalka, Ryan Park, Roula Partheniou, Kay Rosen, Alison Rossiter, Jon Sasaki, Jeannie Thib, Josh Thorpe, Joy Walker, Lawrence Weiner and Laurel Woodcock.

5. The exhibition takes place at MKG127, 127 Ossington Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J 2Z6, (647) 435-7682. Open Wednesday to Saturday 12 to 6 pm or by appointment. www.mkg127.com

6. The exhibition opens Saturday, July 3rd (with a reception from 1:23 to 4:56 pm) and continues until July 31, 2010.

7. The exhibition was organized for MKG127 by Micah Lexier.

Kay Rosen's Hi 1997/2010 (MKG127)

hands

The Complete Book of Palmistry by Joyce Wilson, Bantam Books, 1971 (1982)