Research Catalog

Title

Wall / Ken Campbell.

Author

Campbell, Ken, 1939-

Publication

[London] : Ken Campbell, [2008].

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Details

Description

1 artist's book (55 unnumbered leaves) : 69 illustrations (chiefly color); 31 x 31 cm

Summary

Contains 7 blank leaves; illustrated half title and title page, versos blank; 2 leaves containing text on recto (1 with overlaid illustration), versos blank; 22 leaves containing full-page illustrations on rectos, versos blank; 22 leaves containing full-page illustrations on rectos and versos. Several of the illustrations incorporate textual matter. For discussion, see article by Nancy Campbell in Printmaking today, summer 2008, pages 14-15.

Subjects

• Words in art
• Artists' books > Great Britain > 21st century
• Computer graphics > United States > 20th century
• Campbell, Ken, 1939-
• Computer art
• Walls in art

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – Great Britain – 21st century.
• Computer graphics – United States – 20th century.
• Computer art.

Note

• "2008; edition of 29, 26 for sale + 1 AP"--Prospectus.
• "Polychrome digital printing on 216gsm Hahnemuhle Art Duo paper ... The book is the consequence of a journey from letterpress printing to digital inkjet. 12pt lead rules were cut and mitred to give letterpress depictions of the walls of a castle or city. The rules were also manipulated digitally to give further wall imagery. Some of the lead quads or furniture that sit below the printing surface and helped support these rules were photographed and also processed into digital images. 75cm x 51cm sheets of paper were folded into signatures and printed on all four sides by letterpress and inkjet printing that included the above procedures and photographic images of, among many others, walls, a Mid West Lutheran log church, and a face apparently attempting to pass through a membrane and rock. These folded signatures were then held up to intense tungsten light and photographed both back and front. This procedure supplied four layers of imagery overlaying each other with differing degrees of focus. The page images were then much reduced and, in their pairs as front and back of the original signatures, printed off centre of the pages of the book proper. The book carries two short texts. One describes a day in the life of Dorothy, my grandchild, and her mother, my daughter Esther; who described their day. The other, by me, describes a dream of age and rebirth. Walls protect, walls constrain, and walls sometimes get run into. Five years ago I started this book, calling it WALL, knowing that I was going to hit it. Hopefully, by running at the page, it has been passed through. KC, 4/2008"--Prospectus, laid in.

Binding (note)

• Pale beige goatskin, with blind-impressed wall image on front and back. "The book is bound as single leaves, attached in pairs in a split guard system; conventionally bound with a loose spine in undyed fair goatskin over board. The cover is embossed front and back"--Prospectus. Issued in blind-impressed maroon cloth-covered clamshell box (33 x 33 cm.).

Call Number

*KP+ (Campbell) 16-67

OCLC

318351934

Author

Campbell, Ken, 1939- book artist.

Title

Wall / Ken Campbell.

Publisher

[London] : Ken Campbell, [2008].

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Rare Books copy is no. 29/29; signed in pencil and dated "2008" by Ken Campbell.

Binding

Pale beige goatskin, with blind-impressed wall image on front and back. "The book is bound as single leaves, attached in pairs in a split guard system; conventionally bound with a loose spine in undyed fair goatskin over board. The cover is embossed front and back"--Prospectus. Issued in blind-impressed maroon cloth-covered clamshell box (33 x 33 cm.).

Local Note

NYPL copy: Prospectus (1 page) laid in.

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Place of Publication

England London.

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Campbell) 16-67