For the book collector a dog-ear has a nasty bite, its presence as Kenneth Goldsmith points out in his introductory essay "even when smoothed out and returned to its upright position, scars the page forever."But for Erica Baum the dog-ear opens up new possibilities for engaging with the text. For the Dog Ear series Baum carefully dog-eared pages of mass market paperbacks and then photographed them. The diagonal line becomes not only the chosen method of saving one's place but also the jumping off point. The line begets new lines and ultimately new meaning. Published by Ugly Duckling Presse Dog...
Oyster Time: A Sweet Suite of Broadsides
The Pacific Northwest is a little slice of oyster heaven where 4 different species are grown in abundance.Portland, Oregon is currently home to an abundance of young poets who are making their mark on the national stage. Bookseller, publisher and artist Charles Seluzicki has joined these two phenomenons in his latest publication, Oyster Suite, a set of 4 broadsides featuring original unpublished oyster-themed poems by Carl Adamshick, Matthew Dickman, Michael Dickman, and Michael McGriff. The broadsides are printed letterpress in an edition of 100 (80 copies are gathered into sets of which 65 are for sale) and illustrated with drawings...
Line of Sight: The World of Timothy Ely
Photo: Young Kwak for The Pacific Northwest InlanderNow on view at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture is the largest exhibition of the work of Timothy C. Ely ever assembled under one roof.Since the early 1970's Ely has been creating unique, one-of-a-kind mind-bending bookworks. On the form of his work Ely says “I became really aware that the atlas form would be the springboard — the point of departure — for everything I needed to deal with.” Using few, if any, words and drawing heavily from science, geometry, and religion one can spend a lifetime reading and comprehending each...
The Library of America Goes Wordless: The Novels of Lynd Ward
In what just might be one of the publishing surprises and hi-spots of 2010, The Library of America will release a 2 volume boxed set featuring the six woodcut novels of Lynd Ward.God's Man, Ward's first book published on the eve of the stock market collapse of 1929, was the first wordless book-length novel to be published in the United States. By the end of 1937 Ward would publish five more novels in woodcuts: Madman's Drum (1930) Wild Pilgrimage (1932) Prelude to a Million Years (1933) Song Without Words (1936)Vertigo (1937)If one is looking for the origins of the graphic novel in the United...
The Title Page Through Time
Title Page. noun. 1594: a page of a book bearing the title and usually the names of the author and publisher and the place and sometimes date of publication.All books begin with one. It is most often the first printed page one sees when they begin reading a book. An exhibition dedicated to the title page is about to wrap up at the The National Gallery of Art. Announcing the Text: Development of the Title Page, 1470–1900 Selections from the National Gallery of Art Library presents "select examples of early books of the 15th century through modern books of the...