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Opacity & Translucency: Letterpress Printing On Handmade Paper / Durgin, Michael, editor ; Bonham N ; Ferris S ; Bruggeman I ; O'Malley B ; Clark B ; Clark H ; Kessler B ; Matthews W ; Degener A ; Schilling W ; DuBois T ; Elling KP ; Rios A ; Faye JR ; Stern C ; Hafford J ; Fluke G ; Frey J ; Pullman J ; Kruty P ; Silverberg RA ; Leech T ; Miklaf Y ; Kaaren N ; Sonn-Kaaren C ; Pontifell LI ; Risseeuw J ; Thomas P ; Wong P ; Noonan A ; Elliot J ; Kirshenbaum S., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28795-30106

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Scope and Contents

The soft cover book accompanying the works on handmade papers provides a brief essay by Sandra Kirshenbaum on the history of printing on this media from the 2nd century to the present. The remainder of the book is concerned with artistic and technical statements by the contributors to this work. Each press comprising one or several collaborators contributed a work to this project on a different handmade paper that is enclosed within an identifying paper folder. Tom Leech and Peter & Donna Thomas made prints of statements by Voltaire and Shakespeare, respectively, on pulped printed text that incorporates fragments of letters and words. John Risseeuw mentions that his prints are held by the Sackner Archive. This papermaking process is similar to that obtained by J.H. Kocman in other handmade papers held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1996

Extent

0 See container summary (1 soft cover book + folders (paper, printed) + 10 prints (letterpress, handmade paper) + print (letterpress, handmade translucent paper) + print letterpress, folded, handmade paper) + pamphlet (letterpress, folded, handmade paper) + 2 brochures (letterpress, folded, handmade paper) + print (letterpress, handmade paper, collaged) + (30 pages) in clamshell box (museum boards, cloth covered, collaged)) ; 27.5 x 21.5 cm (book) + 29.7 x 23 x 4 cm (box)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

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Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Washington, D.C. : Hand Papermaking. Signed by: several contributors. Nationality of creator: American. General: About 150 total copies. About 113 number copy. General: Added by: RED; updated by: RED.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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