Now that I have finished one of the files that I've had lying around for ages, I've realised that there are other Artist Books I have seen, I wonder where I've written about them.
Tomorrow I will go the State LIbrary, and look at some more. Cunning little things that they are.
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Masks of the mind
Masks of the mind by Bonnie Stahlecker
ALAAB STA State Library Location Code
Interesting poetry that i liked & popup masks, with shiny foil sewn in, more like paper sculpture. Signature bound, looks like hand made paper.
Tongue (lick lick)
Tongue (lick lick) by Stephen Spurrier and Wilma Tabacco.
ALAAB SPU State LIbrary Location Code
This has a pale pink furry cover, with a window in the cover, with a miniature of one of the pages
inside.
Concertina of stiff paper, and it's full of ruled lines of texta, like something I would do.
And watercolour.
There is no text, the message is in stamps and symbols, a tongue and an "=", and
heads like the stone heads in "Spirited Away" and their eyes. But i am not sure what the message is. Whatever you can make of it.
It is quite intriguing.
Licorice Allsorts
Licorice Allsorts by Helen Sanderson
ALAAB SAN State Library Location Code
This is a Book Object, that really does look like a seal plastic packet of licorice allsorts, with a ingredient label on it.
The licorice blocks are actually little books that I can open up when I squish the plastic bag.
I think they are offcuts from the printing process heat sealed in plastic. Very clever and cute, and they made to smile.
Sensa and the Glat-to : an ordinary story
Sensa and the Glat-to : an ordinary story by Joan Prickard,
ALAAB PIC State Library Location Code
oh, but there's nothing ordinary about this. Someone went right down into the Depths of their Dreaming Mind to dig up this story.
The story of living and dying, told in the Universal Language, that it could be about you
or me. Being born, the before, the passing over. Before passing over.
Told in Signatures of handmade paper, that looks like marshmallow and lollies, with a fluffy sea, and fuzzy butterflies.
I would love to see this one again. In a box with a clasp.
Ex libris: soliloquy on life and death
Ex libris: soliloquy on life and death by Alan Owen
ALAAB OWE State Library Location Code
I seem to think I've seen this one like in a dream or a past life.
Fascinating! It's a giant block of wood, and it looks like a computer. It's got a keyboard painted onto it, and it's title, and the "monitor" is a giant block of resin. And it's painted like an apple monitor, and then embedded in the resin are the pages of a book. Old decayed pages, and the decay looks like compost, all embedded in the resin. The resin is smooth and cold, and i want to lick it. It must weigh a couple of kilograms. I love it.
The Art of the Cake: Paris Patisseries
The Art of the Cake: Paris Patisseries by Rita Erlich and Mary Newsome
ALAAB NEW State Library Location Code
There is a patron saint of pastry cooks!
The book is in a cake box, as though it is a cake. It's got a pair of white gloves in the box, with a little baggie to put your cakey in.
The front cover looks like a slab of chocolate! Concertina style. Some of the pictures are of cakes that are computer printed onto the paper, from hand paintings, probably watercolours and some photographs printed onto the the paper. and some popups.
When I left the Library and this book, I went to get a Piece of Cake!
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