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Crime & Punishment in the Book Arts
Book Patrol's second installment celebrating The Guild of Bookworkers 100th Anniversary show centers around two works on the theme of crime & punishmentFrom the Contemporary Juried Exhibit:Weitlauf, Ashlee. T is for Torture: Tempe, AZ, 2005. Pamphlet that uses letterpress, photo lithography, and photopolymer printing on handmade paper. The pamphlet is about the illegal torture activities that the United States is committing. It includes text that describes what the USA is involved in, what national and international laws have been broken, and testimony from torture victims.From the Retrospective Exhibition:Davis, Jerilyn Glen. Herman Melville Billy Budd Sailor: New York, 1987. 24 x...
A Plea for the Printer
Since 1992 when we opened our first shop, Wessel & Lieberman have been ardent supporters of the Pacific Northwest book art scene.We consistently go out of our way to make sure local printers, binders, book artists and publishers have a forum and a space to show and sell their work. It is our duty as an independent bookseller to exude a strong sense of place. It is what separates us from the chain stores and the online aggregators whose only real concerns are the wrong kind of margins- profit not page.I got news a few days ago that C. Christopher...
Guild of Bookworkers 100th Anniversary Exhibit
In honor of the Guild of Bookmakers 100th anniversary Book Patrol will regularly feature one book from the Contemporary Exhibition of Juried Works and one book from the Retrospective Exhibition.The exhibit is currently on display at the Grolier Club in NY and will travel around the country in 2007.Our first installment features two of Seattle's own book artists. Bonnie Thompson Norman's "Primer for Democracy", a fitting post election piece, and Claudia Cohen's beautiful binding of Rudolf Koch's Schriftgiesserei im Schattenbild, 1936 A Primer for Democracy: Seattle, 2004. 8 x 8 x 8 centimeters. was created in a class just before...