Research Catalog

Title

Diderot project / Ken Botnick.

Author

Botnick, Ken

Publication

[St. Louis, Missouri] : Emdash, 2015.

Supplementary Content

Artist's description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Wong, Paul, 1951-
• Kelm, Daniel E.
• Emdash (Firm), publisher.
• Dieu Donné Papermill, papermaker.
• Wide Awake Garage, binder.

Description

1 artist's book (146 unnumbered pages) : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

A visual and textual meditation on concepts encountered in the Encyclopédie of Diderot. These concepts include the hand and craft, tools and machines, labor and leisure, memory, sensation, and perception.

Uniform Title

Encyclopédie. Selections. English.

Alternative Title

Encyclopedia

Subjects

• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Walbaum Book
• Encyclopédie
• Artists' books > United States > 21st century
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Trade Gothic
• Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Walbaum Book.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Trade Gothic.

Note

• Edition of 70 copies.
• "This edition was completed during the January thaw of 2015 in our print shop in the Pierce Arrow Building, St. Louis, and is the work of Ken Botnick, editor, author, designer, printer and publisher. Over 220 press runs used 8 pounds of black, silver, gold, and transparent inks. Illustrations, with one exception, are from the original Encyclopedia of Diderot, photographed by KB in Olin Library Special Collections at Washington University. The exception is the portrait bust of Diderot by Jean Antoine Houdon, 1773, which served as the basis of a number of collages. Papers used are Hahnemühle Bugra, black; Moriki, black and gray; Okawara, natural; Zerkall Book; and UV Ultra Clearfold. Three watermarked sheets designed by KB were made by master papermaker Paul Wong at Dieu Donné Paper in New York. Cover paper is Degener Black, an indigo and walnut dyed flax paper made by Cave Paper in Minneapolis. This edition is bound by Daniel Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage, Easthampton, Massachusetts. All texts from the Encyclopedia are set in Walbaum Book ... Selections from contemporary writers are set in various weights and styles of Trade Gothic"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's quarter black cloth and illustrated black paper boards, by Daniel Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage.

Contents

Volume 1: Memory: the hand, craft & work -- Volume 2: Reason: tools, objects & materials -- Volume 3: Imagination: sensation, perception & the natural world.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2015 16-32

LCCN

2016657710

OCLC

953618706

Author

Botnick, Ken, book artist.

Title

Diderot project / Ken Botnick.

Publisher

[St. Louis, Missouri] : Emdash, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 31; signed by Ken Botnick.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Binding

Publisher's quarter black cloth and illustrated black paper boards, by Daniel Kelm at the Wide Awake Garage.

Connect to:

Artist's description

Place of Publication

United States Missouri Saint Louis.

Added Author

Wong, Paul, 1951- papermaker.

Kelm, Daniel E., binder.

Emdash (Firm), publisher.

Dieu Donné Papermill, papermaker.

Wide Awake Garage, binder.

Cover Title

Encyclopedia

Added Title

Encyclopédie. Selections. English.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 2015 16-32