Research Catalog

Title

True to life / Julie Chen.

Author

Chen, Julie.

Publication

Berkeley : Flying Fish Press, 2004.

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

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Details

Additional Authors

Flying Fish Press. pbl

Description

[12] leaves : col. ill.; 38 cm.

Subject

• Chen, Julie
• Toy and movable books > Specimens

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Plexiglas (TM)

Note

• "Edition of 100 copies"--Colophon.
• Title and publication information from box.
• "True to life was written, illustrated, and designed by Julie Chen. It was letterpress printed using a combination of pressure plates, woodblocks, & photopolymer plates. It was assembled and bound at Flying Fish Press with expert assistance from Macy Chadwick. The image that appears on each page is one section of a long, continuous visual timeline that can never be viewed all at once"--Colophon.
• Outer structure of book is made from 2 dark red cloth-covered pieces fastened at the corners with metal screws. The front contains a Plexiglas panel through which the leaves are viewed. Through slits along the sides extend wooden levers with numbers corresponding to the leaf to be revealed. Levers are manipulated by the reader, moving the 7 panels of each slotted leaf partly or wholly to the surface. Each leaf contains images and text.
• "In the form of a tablet with sliding pages, True to life offers an innovative physical structure which corresponds to the shifting nature of memory, allowing the reader to create different combinations of text and image and thus alter the content of the piece, deliberately or by chance, with each reading"--Publisher's description.

Binding (note)

• Housed in a dark red cloth-covered box with folding flaps (39 cm.), containing a hinged insert that acts as a stand. Sheet with instructions on "How to work this book" and publication details mounted on top surface of stand. Top flap of box has cutout to reveal image mounted on second flap; title and name of author on paper labels on second flap; title also on paper spine labels. Definition of symbols on labels mounted on inside of second flap. Magnetized closure.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2004 10-255

LCCN

2010667962

OCLC

61183516

Author

Chen, Julie.

Title

True to life / Julie Chen.

Imprint

Berkeley : Flying Fish Press, 2004.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 71; signed in pencil by Chen.

Binding

Housed in a dark red cloth-covered box with folding flaps (39 cm.), containing a hinged insert that acts as a stand. Sheet with instructions on "How to work this book" and publication details mounted on top surface of stand. Top flap of box has cutout to reveal image mounted on second flap; title and name of author on paper labels on second flap; title also on paper spine labels. Definition of symbols on labels mounted on inside of second flap. Magnetized closure.

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

United States California Berkeley.

Added Author

Flying Fish Press. Publisher

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2004 10-255