Research Catalog

Title

1/2 century / Julie Chen.

Author

Chen, Julie

Publication

• Berkeley [California] : Flying Fish Press, 2018.
• ©2018

Supplementary Content

http://flyingfishpress.com/booksinprint/halfcentury.html

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Leonard, Kathryn, 1958-
• Kroupa, Sandra
• Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (Two Rivers, Wis.)
• Flying Fish Press, publisher.

Description

56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 17 cm

Summary

"The text of Half-Century considers the complexity of our relationship to time in our daily lives. We think we understand how time works, but our public beliefs about time may not sync up with our private beliefs about time. Our conception of time changes over the course of a lifetime but we often only realize this at milestones and/or traumatic moments in our lives. Imagery includes a variety of large wood type numbers that were printed at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI, along with an abstract visual timeline illustrating a pattern of significant life events over a 50-year period"--Artist's statement, Vamp & Tramp Booksellers' website, September 27, 2022.

Alternative Title

Half century

Subject

• Kroupa, Sandra
• Time in art
• Work in art
• Artists' books > Specimens
• Artists' books

Genre/Form

• Artists' books.
• Commemorative works.
• Accordion fold books.
• Accordion fold format (Binding)
• Accordion fold format.
• Artists' books – California – Berkeley – 2018.
• Specimens.

Note

• Limited edition of 50 copies (in case), signed and numbered by the artist.
• "Half-Century was written, illustrated and designed by Julie Chen ... Thanks also to Kathryn Leonard for providing information for the abstract visual timeline that is embedded in this book. Half-Century is dedicated to Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts & Rare Books Curator, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of her career at University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA"--Colophon.
• Each page, symbolizing one year in Sandra Kroupa's career at the University of Washington Libraries, is printed with large wood-type numerals from 1 to 50 in turquoise ink with text over-printed in black ink. Most pages are illustrated with symbols representing the visual timeline. A sheet of mottled gray paper attached to the bottom tray of the case is lifted by a paper tab to reveal a sheet of explanations for the symbols used on the pages.
• Bound as a double-sided accordion with first and last leaves attached to upper and lower boards that are covered in red silk. Mottled gray paper title labels printed in turquoise (Act I) and dark red (Act II) inlaid on upper and lower boards, respectively. Housed in a red and apricot silk-covered, drop-spine case, lined with mottled gray paper, decorated with wheel/sun motif printed in copper-colored ink; motif repeated on mottled gray paper label affixed to upper surface of case; magnetic closure at the fore-edge.

Provenance (note)

• Inscribed in ink, on colophon, "Julie Chen 30/50."

Call Number

Rare Books 23-512

LCCN

2021659081

OCLC

1066135829

Author

Chen, Julie, book artist.

Title

1/2 century / Julie Chen.

Publisher

Berkeley [California] : Flying Fish Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Creator/Contributor Characteristics

Americans

Californians

Women

Provenance

Inscribed in ink, on colophon, "Julie Chen 30/50." NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books 23-512 is no. 30 of 50 copies.

Connect to:

http://flyingfishpress.com/booksinprint/halfcentury.html

Place of Publication

United States California Berkeley, publication place.

Added Author

Leonard, Kathryn, 1958- consultant.

Kroupa, Sandra, dedicatee.

Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum (Two Rivers, Wis.)

Flying Fish Press, publisher.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 23-512