Research Catalog

Pages from an imaginary book

Filter by

Item details
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	Permit needed	MEMZ (VanderLans)	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

Additional Authors

Onestar Press.

Description

155 p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Artists' books.

Note

"Imagine this book to be twice as large, with a hardbound cover and gold debossed title, beautiful endpapers, head and tail bands, and a dust cover with a French fold. The inside would have glossy, coated paper throughout. Printed on this paper would be a number of carefully selected full color reproductions of landscape photographs of the Mojave Desert. The photos would have been taken with a field camera holding 8 x 10 inch negative film. The reproductions would be scanned with the latest high-end scanning device, and printed at 300 lines per inch in five colors with a spot varnish. The tonal qualities and detail of the reproductions would match the originals perfectly. To explain the images and create context, there would be two critical essays by well known critics. And to lend the book credibility it would be published by a New York art book publisher or institute of photography. It would be a beautiful book, indeed. This is not that book (See figures 2-155)." --Cover p. [4].
Perfect binding, paper cover.
"Limited to 250 numbered copies. 20 copies deluxe limited edition of this book, accompanied by a signed and numbered multiple by the artist"--Colophon.
First edition limited to 250 numbered copies.

Call Number

MEMZ (VanderLans)

Author

VanderLans, Rudy, artist.

Title

Pages from an imaginary book / by Rudy VanderLans.

Imprint

Paris : Onestar Press, c2003.

Edition

1st ed.

Local Note

Artists' Books Collection (NYPL, Print Collection).

Added Author

Onestar Press.

Research Call Number

MEMZ (VanderLans)