Research Catalog

Title

The negative way : a collaboration / lithographs by Paul Brach ; propositions by Arthur A. Cohen.

Author

Brach, Paul, 1924-2007.

Publication

[Los Angeles] : Tamarind Workshop, 1964.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cohen, Arthur Allen, 1928-
• O'Connor, Thom, 1937-
• Smith, Clifford.
• Ruocco, Jeff.
• Cohen, Elaine Lustig, 1927-
• Tamarind Lithography Workshop. pbl
• Clarke & Way. prt
• Moroquain, Inc. bnd

Description

1 case (12 folded sheets, 10 prints) : col. ill.; 42 cm.

Subjects

• Brach, Paul, 1924-2007
• Artists' books > United States
• Cosmology > Poetry
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Bell (Monotype)

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bell (Monotype)

Note

• "The edition [of the prints] comprises twenty numbered impressions on Rives BFK paper and nine Tamarind impressions on Arches. In addition, there exist artist's and trial proofs which are recorded at Tamarind"--Colophon.
• "Ten original lithographs by Paul Brach, drawn and hand-printed at the Tamarind Workshop ... These lithographs were conceived to accompany ten propositions by Arthur A. Cohen. Each print illustrates one proposition and has been numbered in Arabic numerals to correspond with it ... The printing of the lithographs was done by Thom O'Connor, Clifford Smith and Jeff Ruocco, under the technical direction of Irwin Hollander and Kenneth Tyler. All stones and zinc plates have been effaced"--Colophon. .
• Prints are numbered on verso in pencil, #1-#10, edition-numbered, signed in pencil and dated '64 by Brach. Each print also bears chop marks of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop and the printer, O'Connor, Smith or Ruocco; numbered in pencil with the sequential no. of the Workshop's prints, 1119, 1121-1122, 1125-1131.
• "The text, in Monotype Bell, has been composed and printed letterpress by Clarke and Way, Inc., New York, on Rives paper. The design of the typography and binding is by Elaine Lustig"--Colophon.
• Consists of 10 full-page lithographs (38 x 38 cm.) and 12 bifolia, of which all but the first (half title and t.p.) and last (blank leaf and colophon) enclose a print. Cohen's 10 propositions (in verse) are printed on the versos of the first leaves of these bifolia, to face the prints; rectos of the first leaves are blank except for an Arabic numeral from 1 to 10; second leaves are blank. White Japanese paper guard sheets precede each print.

Indexed In (note)

• University of New Mexico. Art Museum. Cat. raisonné: Tamarind Lithography Workshop

Binding (note)

• Issued unbound, in white cloth-covered clamshell box (42 cm.), by Moroquain, Inc., with design based on print no. 10 blind-impressed on front cover; lined in gray velvet.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1964 10-197

OCLC

659561230

Author

Brach, Paul, 1924-2007.

Title

The negative way : a collaboration / lithographs by Paul Brach ; propositions by Arthur A. Cohen.

Imprint

[Los Angeles] : Tamarind Workshop, 1964.

Indexed In:

University of New Mexico. Art Museum. Cat. raisonné: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, p. 40-41.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 9/20 (each print edition-numbered 9/20, signed in pencil and dated '64 by Brach).

Binding

Issued unbound, in white cloth-covered clamshell box (42 cm.), by Moroquain, Inc., with design based on print no. 10 blind-impressed on front cover; lined in gray velvet.

Local Note

Gift of Tamar Cohen.

Place of Publication

United States California Los Angeles.

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Cohen, Arthur Allen, 1928-

Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Publisher

O'Connor, Thom, 1937- Printer of plates

Smith, Clifford. Printer of plates

Ruocco, Jeff. Printer of plates

Clarke & Way. Printer

Cohen, Elaine Lustig, 1927- Book designer

Moroquain, Inc. Binder

Cohen, Tamar (Tamar Judith). Donor

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1964 10-197