Research Catalog

Title

Cutting paper / Claudia Cohen & Barbara Hodgson.

Author

Cohen, Claudia, 1953-

Publication

[Vancouver, British Columbia] : Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2013.

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hodgson, Barbara, 1955-
• Munari, Bruno
• Clifford, David, 1936-
• Heavenly Monkey (Firm), publisher
• Black Stone Press (Vancouver, B.C.), printer

Description

86 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, samples; 33 cm

Summary

• "The book is illustrated throughout with dozens of tipped-in cut-paper examples ... In addition to more familiar forms such as the silhouette and collage, there is an original canivet, a card with a border cut to resemble intricate lace; monkiri, a Japanese stencil crest; and Scherenschnitte, a German-style black papercut. Some of the samples are based on existing historical cuts, including a re-creation of a Matisse-style gouaches découpées, painted with Matisse's own palette of Linel gouaches on Arches text wove. Other samples created for this book use traditional cutting techniques to show cuts that may have existed ... Each copy is issued in a clamshell box ... with a cut-paper facsimile of Bruno Munari's Il Libro illeggibile (originally published in 1953 and recreated by Claudia for this book)"--Heavenly Monkey Web site, viewed May 16, 2016.
• "This book was designed and set in Bauer Bodoni by Barbara Hodgson. David Clifford at Black Stone Press in Vancouver printed it on Rives BFK. Gifu, Hahnemuhle Ingres, Somerset and a variety of handmade papers were also used ... The cut-paper art comes from many sources. Pieces not labelled in the text are unidentified or were done by the authors"--Colophon.

Subject

• Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
• Hodgson, Barbara, 1955-
• Paper work > History
• Paper art > History
• Cut-out craft > History
• Silhouettes > History
• Collage > History
• Paper work > Specimens
• Paper art > Specimens
• Cut-out craft > Specimens
• Silhouettes > Specimens
• Collage > Specimens
• Artists' books
• Cut-out craft
• Paper art
• Paper work
• Silhouettes

Genre/Form

• Specimens.
• Cut-paper works.
• Collages – Canada – 21st century.
• Silhouettes.
• Artists' books – Canada – 21st century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bauer Bodoni.

Note

• "The edition is 30 numbered and six A.P. copies, each signed by the two authors"--Colophon.
• "Copies 1-10 were bound in full leather and include an ad[d]itional selection of samples (available to the authors in more limited quantities) laid in"--Heavenly Monkey Web site, viewed May 16, 2016.
• Accompanied by replica of Bruno Munari's Libro illeggibile, 1953 (18 unnumbered leaves : cutouts ; 16 cm). Comprised of sheets of dark red and natural papers, cut to form various patterns as the leaves are turned; stitched into gray paper covers. Inserted in pocket inside paper portfolio (33 cm) lettered on front cover: "Bruno Munari, Libro illeggibile 1953, 60% of original size."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Binding (note)

• "Claudia Cohen bound each copy in her Seattle studio"--Colophon.
• Publisher's gray cut paper over blue, red and yellow paste papers; lining papers of decorative paper containing cut paper ornament, over blue paste paper. Housed in a black cloth covered clamshell box (35 x 27 x 6 cm) with gray paste paper covered edges, collaged with red paper dots.

Contents

Papercutting: China: jian-zhi or k'e-chih -- Japan: monkiri or kirigami -- India: Sanjih -- Germany, Austria & Switzerland: Scherenschnitte -- Poland: wycinanki -- Holland: papiersnyden -- France: papier découpé -- Britain: cutpaper -- Islamic traditions: monabbat-kari or qat' -- Jewish traditions: oissherenishen -- Mexico: papel picado -- The United States: psaligraphy -- Paper-cutting education: Froebel, et al. -- The avant-garde to today: collage and beyond -- Portfolio (32 pages of mounted cut paper samples) -- Selected bibliography (pages 75-81).

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Canadian 2013 16-11

OCLC

853620720

Author

Cohen, Claudia, 1953- author, artist, binder.

Title

Cutting paper / Claudia Cohen & Barbara Hodgson.

Publisher

[Vancouver, British Columbia] : Heavenly Monkey Editions, 2013.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 26 (the number is in cut paper); signed in pencil by Claudia Cohen and Barbara Hodgson.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Binding

"Claudia Cohen bound each copy in her Seattle studio"--Colophon.

Ordinary copies: Publisher's gray cut paper over blue, red and yellow paste papers; lining papers of decorative paper containing cut paper ornament, over blue paste paper. Housed in a black cloth covered clamshell box (35 x 27 x 6 cm) with gray paste paper covered edges, collaged with red paper dots.

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

Canada British Columbia Vancouver.

Added Author

Hodgson, Barbara, 1955- author, artist.

Container of (work): Munari, Bruno. Libro illeggibile, 1953.

Clifford, David, 1936- printer.

Heavenly Monkey (Firm), publisher.

Black Stone Press (Vancouver, B.C.), printer.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Canadian 2013 16-11