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Nullity / Bernard, Kenneth., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-43635-45720

Scope and Contents

This book is bound with marbled paper over limp boards, green linen spine. It was hand set and printed on a Vandercook press by Walter Hamady. Three unbound copies were made in addition to the 100 copies. There is a real typewriter keyshaft attached in the binding of the book (the letter "V") that almost appears as a bookmark. This one anamorphically mulling life's exigencies via the lensing metaphor of a typewriter. (His) original handwitten text; the first typewritten draft, hand corrected: and the first rough setting of a "typewriter typeface" transmogrify into an ultimate readability Bernard's text on the untimely discarding of typewriters - or is it people our society prematurely abandon. The printing plate is a handwritten text dating 2/14/92 that is printed in the book as a facing pages spread; it was a gift to the Sackners from Hamady. Selected as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year" 1996 AIGA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 2000

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book + pages (letterpress) + page (collaged, paper) + page (letterpress, copperfragment) + printing plate (metal) (35 pages)) ; 27.9 x 18.7 x .8 cm (book) + 36.8 x 21.7 cm (printing plate)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box shelf

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: Mount Horeb, Wisconsin : The Perishable Press Limited. Signed by: Walter S H Hamady (t.c.- pentultimate page). Nationality of creator: American. General: 100 copies of 103 total copies. About 64 number copy. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

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

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