Research Catalog

Title

The orchid thief reimagined / Jane Kent, Susan Orlean.

Author

Kent, Jane

Publication

[New York] : Grenfell Press ; [Providence, R.I.] : RISD Print Editions, Rhode Island School of Design, 2003.

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Orlean, Susan
• Miller, Leslie, 1957-
• Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
• Grenfell Press. pbl
• RISD Print Editions. pbl

Description

17 sheets ([17] leaves) : chiefly col. ill.; 42 cm.

Subjects

• Kent, Jane
• Orlean, Susan > Orchid thief > Illustrations
• Artists' books > United States > 21st century

Genre/Form

Artists' books – United States – 21st century.

Note

• "An edition of thirty-five plus fifteen artist's proofs and four printer's proofs"--Colophon.
• "A collaboration between author Susan Orlean and ... artist Jane Kent ... Fragments of text selected by Susan Orlean from ... The orchid thief have been illuminated by Jane Kent into an artist's book of eight ... abstract silkscreen prints with eight lithographically printed interleaving sheets"--Publisher's announcement, Apr. 23, 2003.
• The 8 screenprints, on Somerset Radiant White Satin paper, incorporate 9 letterpress paragraphs from Orlean's nonfiction work The orchid thief (New York: Random House, 1998), printed from polymer plates. The 8 decorative interleaving sheets are of translucent glassine paper; medium is photo-positive plate lithography. Screenprinting by Eric Anderson, Glen Baldridge and Sam Wilson, RISD Print Editions. Interleaving printed by Andrew Raferty at RISD Print Editions. Text designed and printed by Leslie Miller at Grenfell Press. Cf. information sheet laid into Spencer Coll. copy.
• The screenprints are numbered sequentially 1-8 on verso and initialed in pencil by Kent and Orlean. Colophon printed on leaf [17], on glassine paper.
• "When assembled the book becomes a 35 x 45 inch image with text"--Description on publisher's Web site, retrieved Nov. 22, 2011.

Binding (note)

• Issued unbound, in mauve silk-covered clamshell box with leather spine label. "The tray cases were made by Claudia Cohen"--Colophon.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2003 11-179

OCLC

55884148

Author

Kent, Jane.

Title

The orchid thief reimagined / Jane Kent, Susan Orlean.

Imprint

[New York] : Grenfell Press ; [Providence, R.I.] : RISD Print Editions, Rhode Island School of Design, 2003.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 9/35; signed in pencil by Kent and Orlean.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy accompanied by publisher's announcement, Apr. 23, 2003 ([2] leaves) and information sheet.

Binding

Issued unbound, in mauve silk-covered clamshell box with leather spine label. "The tray cases were made by Claudia Cohen"--Colophon.

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

United States Rhode Island Providence.

Added Author

Orlean, Susan. Orchid thief.

Miller, Leslie, 1957- Printer

Cohen, Claudia, 1953- Binder

Grenfell Press. Publisher

RISD Print Editions. Publisher

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2003 11-179