Research Catalog

Title

Composite impressions / Julie Chen.

Author

Chen, Julie

Publication

• Berkeley : Flying Fish Press, 2015.
• ©2015

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Flying Fish Press, publisher

Description

22 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 26 cm

Uniform Title

Reich der Blumenkönigin. Selections.

Subject

• Flowers in art
• Plants in art
• Cut-out craft
• Reading
• Artists' books > Specimens
• Artists' books

Genre/Form

• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• Artists' books.
• Specimens.

Note

• Edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist.
• "'Composite Impressions' was written and designed by Julie Chen. The fern images were photographed from an album of pressed ferns collected by Miss Mills, circa 1880, in the Sir George Grey Special Collections, Aukland Libraries, Auckland, New Zealand...The flowers were reproduced from 'Das Reich der Blumenkonigin', circa 1880, in the Special Collections at the University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington"--Colophon.
• "[E]xamines the meaning of images and objects in relation to the activity of reading in today's digital age. The book presents images of natural objects and replicas of paper objects, both originating in the 1880s, combined with text that is self-referential in nature. Composite Impressions poses questions about the meaning of the reading experience, and asks the reader to assess his or her own reading process as it is occurring, both through interaction with the text and through interaction with the physical format of the book itself"--Publisher's website.
• "Digitally printed text and images, oval cut out in brown book board frame with flora cutouts. Text across images printed on strips v-cut like decorative ribbons. Materials: paper, book board, book cloth, acrylic paint."--Publisher's website.
• Pages are doubled book board on cloth hinges. All edges gilt. Spine construction allows book to open flat.

Provenance (note)

• Inscribed in ink, on colophon, "36/50 Julie Chen."

Call Number

Rare Books 23-511

OCLC

930709582

Author

Chen, Julie, book artist.

Title

Composite impressions / Julie Chen.

Publisher

Berkeley : Flying Fish Press, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Inscribed in ink, on colophon, "36/50 Julie Chen." NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books 23-511 is no. 36 of 50 copies.

Added Author

Flying Fish Press, publisher.

Added Title

Reproduction of (work): Reich der Blumenkönigin. Selections.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 23-511