Research Catalog

Title

Nova reperta : new discoveries and inventions / Johanna Drucker & Brad Freeman.

Author

Drucker, Johanna, 1952-

Publication

New Haven : JAB Books, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Freeman, Brad
• Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.
• JAB Books. pbl

Description

[66] p. : chiefly ill. (some col.); 51 cm.

Subjects

• Artists' books > United States > 20th century
• Inventions in art
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Agenda
• Freeman, Brad
• Technological innovations > Social aspects > United States
• Science in art
• Inventions > Pictorial works
• Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605 > Nova reperta

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 20th century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Agenda.

Note

• "The edition consists of [blank] copies ... All copies signed by the artists"--Colophon. In the blank space, "75" is supplied in pencil.
• "A collaboration between Brad Freeman and Johanna Drucker. The text was written and designed by Johanna Drucker and typeset using Font Bureau's Agenda family. All photographs were made by Brad Freeman in locations around New Haven, New York, San Francisco and Djerassi Foundation in Woodside, California. Digital prepress completed @ JAB World Headquarters on a Power Mac 8500 using Photoshop 4.0 and Quark 4.0.4. The digital film for this book was produced through the Institute for Electronic Arts (iea) at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, and imageset on a SelectSet Avantra 25 S. Film and imagesetter provided by AGFA Corporation. Offset printed by Brad Freeman on the Solna press at the Center for Editions at Purchase College, SUNY, in Purchase, NY. Special assistance on all aspects of production provided by Chris George ... Justin Tesa silkscreened the cover titles. Vena Orisek refined the design for the stands and produced them in red oak. The paper is Mohawk Superfine, 100 lb. text. Handbound by the artists in boards and silk ... Originally conceived in 1993-94; designed, written, photographed, and printed in 1998-99 "--Colophon.
• Inspired by Nova reperta, a section depicting navigational and technological discoveries included in Speculum diversarum imaginum speculativarum (1638), a collection of engravings after drawings by Jan van der Straet (Joannes Stradanus); 9 illustrations from that work are reproduced. "The authors' response is conceived as a dialogue with rather than an imitation of the original work. It makes no attempt to mimic Stradanus's pictorial strategies ... Rather, it is a critical reflection upon the extension of that worldview of progress from a perspective possible more than four centuries later"--Brad Freeman's Web site, retrieved Mar. 8, 2011.
• Originally conceived as part of Science and the artist's book, an exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and Washington Project for the Arts, for which book artists created books based on classic volumes from the Heralds of Science collection of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's iridescent violet silk boards, lettered in black. Open spine; boards secured with 5 metal bolts.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1999 11-45

LCCN

2009439610

OCLC

42715117

Author

Drucker, Johanna, 1952-

Title

Nova reperta : new discoveries and inventions / Johanna Drucker & Brad Freeman.

Imprint

New Haven : JAB Books, 1999.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 20; signed in pencil by Freeman and Drucker.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Binding

Publisher's iridescent violet silk boards, lettered in black. Open spine; boards secured with 5 metal bolts.

Place of Publication

United States Connecticut New Haven.

Added Author

Freeman, Brad. Photographer

Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605. Nova reperta.

JAB Books. Publisher

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1999 11-45