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- Title
- View / Julie Chen.
- Author
- Chen, Julie.
- Publication
- Berkeley [Calif.] : Flying Fish Press, 2006.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher's description
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. 2007 13-37 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Additional Authors
- Flying Fish Press. pbl
- Description
- 1 box (2 v., 1 diorama) : ill.; 13 x 36 x 18 cm.
- Summary
- Title, name of artist and imprint from inside box lid.
- "Written, illustrated, and designed by Julie Chen ... letterpress printed using a combination of photopolymer plates, wood blocks, and pressure plates and assembled at the studios of Flying Fish Press"--Colophon.
- Includes 2 volumes, each 16 x 9 cm., in side compartments of a cloth-covered box. Vol. 1 is in a one-sided 3-layer accordion-fold format with 11 openings, each of which contains cutouts in first layer revealing letterpress text on strips of gray paper (second layer) over translucent blue paper (third layer). Vol. 2, on double leaves, has concertina spine; pages folded at fore-edge and glued to concertina; text appears through mylar overlays visible through cut-outs in the illustrated pages.
- Box also contains a diorama, depicting a tree-filled island, in a central compartment. Compartment top is hinged at one side and can be opened from the other; contains an irregularly shaped clear Plexiglas window affording a view of the diorama; another window of translucent Plexiglas is inserted in side panel of compartment. Diorama is constructed of concrete and resin with architectural model trees.
- Alternative Title
- We dream the answers before we ask the questions
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
- Cut-paper works.
- Plexiglas (TM)
- Note
- "100 copies in the edition"--Colophon, on lower panel of folding case.
- Binding (note)
- First and last leaf of each volume attached to separate gray cloth and buff paper-covered boards. Issued in a dull gold and oyster white Japanese book cloth-covered compartmented box. Hinged box top uses a magic wallet structure: opened one way it reveals the volumes in separate trays with ribbon pulls; opened the other way it reveals the diorama. Box is enclosed in a folding case of the same materials, with a magnetic closure of green textured paper and oyster-colored book cloth over board, with title printed in black.
- Contents
- I. Mise en scène -- II. Afterimage.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 2007 13-37
- OCLC
- 105570747
- Author
- Chen, Julie.
- Title
- View / Julie Chen.
- Imprint
- Berkeley [Calif.] : Flying Fish Press, 2006.
- Local Note
- Spencer Coll. copy is no. 34; signed by Julie Chen.
- Binding
- First and last leaf of each volume attached to separate gray cloth and buff paper-covered boards. Issued in a dull gold and oyster white Japanese book cloth-covered compartmented box. Hinged box top uses a magic wallet structure: opened one way it reveals the volumes in separate trays with ribbon pulls; opened the other way it reveals the diorama. Box is enclosed in a folding case of the same materials, with a magnetic closure of green textured paper and oyster-colored book cloth over board, with title printed in black.
- Connect to:
- Place of Publication
- United States California Berkeley.
- Added Author
- Flying Fish Press. Publisher
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 2007 13-37