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Me and the

Title: Me and the / by Edward Ruscha.
Author: Ruscha, Edward.
Publication: [Tampa, Fla.] : Graphicstudio, U.S.F., c2002.
Supplementary Content: Publisher's description

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Book/Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 2002 11-10	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

1 v. ([288] blank leaves); 14 x 19 cm. +

Alternative Title

Me -- the

Subjects

Genre/Form

Conceptual art.
Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
Book objects.
Blankbooks.
Fore-edge paintings (Binding) – United States – 21st century.
Double fore-edge paintings (Binding) – United States – 21st century.
Pochoir prints – United States – 21st century.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Copperplate Gothic.

Note

"Edition of 230 numbered books, 10 artist's proofs, 11 proofs"--Colophon (sheet mounted on back pastedown). There was also one copy stamped "Hors commerce/not for sale"; cf. information sheet.
Title page information transcribed from colophon.
Accompanying information sheet is signed in ink on recto and verso by Ruscha and Margaret A. Miller.
"A sculptural book with double fore-edge printing and gold gilt edges. Text concealed within the leaves appears by fanning the leaves first one way and then the other ... The paper is Mohawk Superfine. Bound by Peggy Gotthold, Santa Cruz, California. Gilding by R. Marchetti & Bro., Inc., Brooklyn, New York. Proofed and printed at Graphicstudio, Tampa, Florida by Sarah M. Howard and Tim Baker. Project coordinator: Tom Pruitt"--Colophon.
"Graphicstudio number: 1366. Date: Project begun February 1998, signed 2002 ... Produced by the artist in collaboration with: Editorial, Hank Hine, Margaret Miller ... Technical collaboration and proofing, Deli Sacilotto, Tom Pruitt, Sarah Howard, Tim Baker. Book body editioning, Roswell Bookbinding, Phoenix, Arizona ... Airbrush editioning, Sarah Howard, Tim Baker ... Colophon design, Marcia Ann Brown"--Information sheet.
"A sculptural object consisting of a cloth-covered hardbound book with gilded gold edges and airbrushed text on fore-edge; text (Me) and text (The) are oriented in opposite directions and only visible when pages are fanned in opposite directions ... Airbrush method: A blank sewn book body ... was sanded on three edges ... The text (Me) was printed in black (Nasdar 9700 Series Black) from one screenprint stencil ... thinned ink is sprayed through the screen using an airbrush in the pochoir method ... The above procedure is repeated with one screenprint stencil of the text (The) ... After airbrushing the text, the book edges were gilded gold ... Colophon: Text was computer generated in Copperplate Gothic type and printed on white paper, from which a photo-polymer plate was created. The colophon text was printed in one run in black ... All proofing and printing was done by hand with conventional relief methods"--Information sheet.
"Viewing directions" included on information sheet.

Binding (note)

Publisher's Cialux Midnight Blue rayon book cloth. All edges gilt, with letters "Me" and "The" airbrushed as double fore-edge painting; see above. In glassine wrapper within a gray cardboard protective enclosure; printed label with handling instructions mounted on top of enclosure.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2002 11-10

OCLC

77594352

Author

Ruscha, Edward.

Title

Me and the / by Edward Ruscha.

Imprint

[Tampa, Fla.] : Graphicstudio, U.S.F., c2002.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 34/230; signed in pencil by Ruscha and dated 2002.

Binding

Publisher's Cialux Midnight Blue rayon book cloth. All edges gilt, with letters "Me" and "The" airbrushed as double fore-edge painting; see above. In glassine wrapper within a gray cardboard protective enclosure; printed label with handling instructions mounted on top of enclosure.

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

United States Florida Tampa.

Added Author

Graphicstudio. Publisher

Gotthold, Peggy. Binder

Roswell Bookbinding. Binder

R. Marchetti & Bro. Binder

Howard, Sarah (Sarah M.) Book producer

Baker, Tim. Book producer

Pruitt, Tom. Book producer

Hine, Charles. Book producer

Miller, Margaret A. (Margaret Acker), 1944- Book producer

Brown, Marcia Ann. Book designer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2002 11-10

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