Research Catalog

Title

Dominion / Ken Campbell.

Author

Campbell, Ken, 1939-2022.

Publication

[London] : Ken Campbell, 2002.

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Details

Description

88 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 51 cm

Summary

"The book deploys found geometric tools, brought to type height, to suggest the plotting of land by the squaring and quartering of the space on the page, and the boxing of its compass. A progression of poems move from the old world of Europe to the Great Plains of North America, which were secured, divided up, then broken by the plough. 'Dominion,' while continuing the pursuit of the idea of the double to be found in previous titles, progresses towards its centre and unravels back to its beginning. In this, 'Dominion' configures exile and return. At the start and end of each of the sections of the book, severe rectilinear geometries are disrupted and married to motifs gained from the equilateral triangle and the cross. The resultant rich pages contrast with the wilderness at the core of this work, and the 'impossibility of the marrying of 3 and 4'"--Brokenrules.co.uk website, viewed May 22, 2022.

Subject

• Artists' books > England > London
• Letterpress printing > England > Specimens
• Artists' books
• Letterpress printing
• England
• England > London

Genre/Form

• artists' books (books)
• Artists' books.
• Specimens.
• Artists' books – England – 2002.

Note

• Limited edition of 30 copies, plus 5 artist's proofs.
• Polychrome letterpress printing on Zerkall Gehammert paper, with wood letter, metal type, 12pt rules, 36pt round ornaments, and one steel set square and one steel right angle rule, both mounted to type height.
• Limited ed. of 30 copies, plus 5 artist's proofs. Cf. Campbell at www.brokenrules.co.uk.

Binding (note)

• Hand sewn and bound in reversed goatskin, in an Islamic, or map-style wrap-around binding, with handmade flax papers lining the inside; the item is wrapped in black felt.

Call Number

Rare Books+++ 21-628

LCCN

2004574029

OCLC

53128528

Author

Campbell, Ken, 1939-2022.

Title

Dominion / Ken Campbell.

Publisher

[London] : Ken Campbell, 2002.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Binding

Hand sewn and bound in reversed goatskin, in an Islamic, or map-style wrap-around binding, with handmade flax papers lining the inside; the item is wrapped in black felt. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books+++ 21-628 is no. 4 of 35 copies.

Research Call Number

Rare Books+++ 21-628