Research Catalog

Title

[States expressed].

Author

Wilde, Christopher.

Publication

[New York, N.Y. : Artichoke Yink Press, 1996]

Supplementary Content

Description on Artichoke Yink Press Web site

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Graham, Dylan, 1972-
• Schooler, Shon.
• Artichoke Yink Press. pbl

Description

[16] p. : samples; 10 x 17 cm. in case 13 x 18 cm.

Summary

• A unique artist's book. Title, name of artist and publication information from Artichoke Yink Press Web site, viewed Jan. 11, 2013, and Spencer Coll. files. Dated "1996" in list on Artichoke Yink site, but "1997" in object description; date of accession: Jan. 10, 1997.
• "Author: C.K. Wilde. Edition: 1... A single object book ... the first in the 4U series of books ... The 4U books will all have Plexiglas covers, laminate pages, copper lintels, and waxed silk suture thread cornices. The material objects were harvested by Dylan Graham, and I scouted the ... streets of New York, Santiago, Munich, Chicago, San Francisco, etc. for the better part of nineteen ninety six in search of numbers. Numbers on the ephemera which surround us: Tickets, laundry claim stubs, auto park billets, money, cigarette packages, bills, receipts, etc."--Artichoke Yink Press Web site, viewed Jan. 11, 2013.
• Consists of 8 fused double leaves of clear plastic, within which a collection of paper ephemera fragments bearing numbers has been laminated. Each leaf has a copper wire inserted at the fold (back edge); wires exposed in 3 areas to form a support for the stitching of the binding.

Series Statement

4U series ; 1st

Uniform Title

4U series ; 1st.

Subject

• Wilde, Christopher
• Printed ephemera > Specimens

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 20th century.
• Unique books – United States – 20th century.
• Ephemera – United States – 20th century.
• Plexiglas (TM)

Binding (note)

• Front and back covers of clear Plexiglas with blue velvet paper at foreedge and spine. Coptic-style binding with open spine and exposed stitiching. "All of the [4U series of] books will sport the modified ... Daniel Kelm binding ... The publisher has made ... a valiant attempt to emulate this idea"--Artichoke Yink Press Web site. Issued in a clamshell box covered in blue silk and blue and gold floral-patterned brocade; plexiglas window in cutout in front cover reveals the book within. Box constructed by Shon Schooler (information from Spencer Coll. files).

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1996 12-205

OCLC

824800220

Author

Wilde, Christopher.

Title

[States expressed].

Imprint

[New York, N.Y. : Artichoke Yink Press, 1996]

Series

4U series ; 1st

4U series ; 1st.

Binding

Front and back covers of clear Plexiglas with blue velvet paper at foreedge and spine. Coptic-style binding with open spine and exposed stitiching. "All of the [4U series of] books will sport the modified ... Daniel Kelm binding ... The publisher has made ... a valiant attempt to emulate this idea"--Artichoke Yink Press Web site. Issued in a clamshell box covered in blue silk and blue and gold floral-patterned brocade; plexiglas window in cutout in front cover reveals the book within. Box constructed by Shon Schooler (information from Spencer Coll. files).

Connect to:

Description on Artichoke Yink Press Web site

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Graham, Dylan, 1972-

Schooler, Shon. Binder

Artichoke Yink Press. Publisher

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1996 12-205