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Mud book

Title: Mud book / by John Cage and Lois Long.
Author: Cage, John.
Publication: New York : Callaway Editions ; London : David Grob Editions, 1983.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 1983 92-129	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

[40] p. : ill. (some col.); 13 cm. +

Alternative Title

Mud book, how to make pies and cakes.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States.

Note

554 copies printed (screenprinted throughout, hand-pulled) by Hiroshi Kawanishi, Takeshi Shimada, and Kenjiro Nonaka of Simca Print Artists, Japan, including 54 artists' proof copies.
"A facsimile of a book conceived ... in the late '50s ... John Cage was inspired to write a text which Lois Long cut to a length she could manage to illustrate. Working ... with gouache and some collage, she made a dummy ... It is this dummy that has been reproduced with such infinite care"--Print collectors' newsletter, v. 15, no. 1 (Mar.-Apr. 1984), p. 27.
Consists of a strip formed from 19 whole sheets (13 x 25 cm.) overlapping and laminated to 18 whole and 2 half sheets (13 x 13 cm.) and folded accordion-style to form 18 double-thickness double leaves with single leaves at beginning and end.
Issued with a leaflet containing "A note on 'Mud book'" by John Russell and the colophon.
29 pages contain ill. of various sizes (2 are double-page) and/or text reproduced from ms., 8 contain text only (some with reproductions of mud stains), 3 are blank. As many as sixty-one screens were used; cf. Print collectors' newsletter. Printer's blind stamp on t.p.
Issued unbound, in khaki cloth covers with bone clasps, in a wooden box with sliding top (15 x 15 x 4 cm.).

Indexed In (note)

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1983 92-129

ISBN

0935112081

LCCN

83071132

OCLC

Author

Cage, John.

Title

Mud book / by John Cage and Lois Long.

Imprint

New York : Callaway Editions ; London : David Grob Editions, 1983.

Local Note

No. 139/500; signed on t.p. in pencil by the author and the artist.

Indexed In:

MOMA. American prints, 1960-1985, p. 238

Added Author

Long, Lois, 1918-2005. Illustrator

Russell, John, 1919-2008.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1983 92-129