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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.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 2010 10-257	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

[65] p. : ill.; 29 cm. + 1 sheet (29 x 43 cm.)

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Note

"Twenty-six copies"--Colophon.
Cover title.
"Comprises forty-eight collage poems by Susan Howe printed letterpress on Somerset paper at the Grenfell Press by Brad Ewing, and ten photograms printed in James Welling's studio. The book was bound by Claudia Cohen using handmade Izumo Mitsumata-shi and Cave papers"--Publisher's description. "The ten photograms that accompany Howe's poems were created with acrylic paint and mylar"--Artist's Web site, retrieved Nov. 24, 2010.
The poems are constructed from fragments of printed text. They were "inspired by Susan Howe's experience of viewing various manuscripts, sermon notebooks, books, and pamphlets of ... Jonathan Edwards in the ... collection of Edwards family papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven, Connecticut. Especially by the folder in Box 24 titled 'Wetmore, Hannah Edwards, 1713-1773, Diary, 1736-39, copy in the hand of Lucy Wetmore Whittelsey, with commentary/n.d.' Using multi-purpose copy paper, scissors, 'invisible' scotch tape, and a canon copier pc170 she collaged fragments of this 'private writing' with a mix of sources from other conductors and revealers in the thick of things--before"--Publisher's description.
Accompanied by sheet containing a photogram and a poem, initialed in pencil on verso by Howe and Welling.

Binding (note)

Publisher's handmade light gray paper boards; issued in dark gray handmade paper-covered clamshell box.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2010 10-257

OCLC

645961527

Author

Howe, Susan, 1937-

Title

Frolic architecture / [Susan Howe, James Welling].

Imprint

[New York] : Grenfell Press, 2010.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 3/26; signed in pencil by Howe and Welling.

Binding

Publisher's handmade light gray paper boards; issued in dark gray handmade paper-covered clamshell box.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy of accompanying sheet is shelved separately.

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Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Welling, James. Illustrator

Grenfell Press. Publisher

Ewing, Brad. Printer

Cohen, Claudia, 1953- Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2010 10-257