Research Catalog

Title

Masters in art / Doug Beube.

Author

Beube, Doug

Publication

[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : Doug Beube, 2009.

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Details

Description

1 case (6 volumes) : illustrations (some color); 20 x 15 x 7 cm

Summary

• Set of six unique artist's books, each an altered copy of a volume from the Hyperion Press series Masters in art, each also in the series Hyperion miniatures. All original volumes have imprint: New York ; Paris ; London : The Hyperion Press, [1948]. New York, N.Y. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Crown Publishers. ©1948.
• "My 'box set' of bookworks, Masters in art, is made of six books from a series by Hyperion Press; their respective reproductions of Botticelli, Cezanne, Degas, El Greco, Goya, and Van Gogh have been either fully or partially rubbed out by power sanders. In these particular interventions, I have focused on using my thin quarter-inch belt sander as a fine drawing instrument, paying close attention to the effects not just on the recto image but on the verso image of the same page. In this way, I have discovered that the fine, thin sharp edges I sought to create on the recto side by drilling from the back of the page have produced elegant, sensual white curving forms on the finely frayed verso side. The viewer, peering through the cavities of these scraped images on either side, is able to read many pages simultaneously and experience collage reading--the act of grasping a greater whole through its parts at a single glance"--Artist's statement, in Doug Beube: breaking the codex / edited by Marion Cohn. Brooklyn, N.Y., ©2011, page 206.

Subject

• Beube, Doug
• Holes in art
• Paper art > Specimens

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Unique books – United States – 21st century.
• Altered books.

Note

• Title, name of artist and date from spine of case.
• Each volume is signed in pencil inside back cover: "Doug Beube," except El Greco, which is unsigned. Each except El Greco is dated opposite the signature, respectively: 1/14/09 (Goya), 1/19/09 (Botticelli), 1/24/09 (Cézanne), 1/27/08 [that is, 1/27/09] (Van Gogh), 4.2009 (Degas).

Binding (note)

• Each volume in original publisher's binding of quarter cloth and illustrated paper boards; Botticelli, Cézanne, Goya with red cloth backstrip; Degas, El Greco, Van Gogh with blue cloth backtrip. Issued together in a handmade blue cloth-covered clamshell box, lettered in black on spine.

Contents

Botticelli / by André Leclerc -- Cézanne / by André Leclerc -- Degas / by Henri Dumont -- El Greco / by Henri Dumont -- Goya / by Henri Dumont -- Van Gogh / by André Leclerc.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2009 16-75

OCLC

964449479

Author

Beube, Doug, book artist.

Title

Masters in art / Doug Beube.

Publisher

[Brooklyn, N.Y.] : Doug Beube, 2009.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

Each volume in original publisher's binding of quarter cloth and illustrated paper boards; Botticelli, Cézanne, Goya with red cloth backstrip; Degas, El Greco, Van Gogh with blue cloth backtrip. Issued together in a handmade blue cloth-covered clamshell box, lettered in black on spine.

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Related To

Altered from (item): Leclerc, André. Botticelli. New York ; Paris ; London : The Hyperion Press, [1948]. 47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm. Masters in art. Hyperion miniatures

Altered from (item): Leclerc, André. Cézanne. New York ; Paris ; London : The Hyperion Press, [1948]. 45 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm. Masters in art. Hyperion miniatures (OCoLC)810828438

Altered from (item): Dumont, Henri. Degas. New York ; Paris ; London : The Hyperion Press, [1948]. 47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm. Masters in art. Hyperion miniatures (OCoLC)11890180

Altered from (item): Dumont, Henri. El Greco. New York ; Paris ; London : The Hyperion Press, [1948]. 47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm. Masters in art. Hyperion miniatures (OCoLC)1727182 (DLC) 48006745

Altered from (item): Dumont, Henri. Goya. New York ; Paris ; London : The Hyperion Press, [1948]. 47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm. Masters in art. Hyperion miniatures (OCoLC)39784002

Altered from (item): Leclerc, André. Van Gogh. New York ; Paris ; London : The Hyperion Press, [1948]. 45 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm. Masters in art. Hyperion miniatures (OCoLC)1691710 (DLC) 48006743

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2009 16-75