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Physical description:
1 volume (unpaged) illustrations 18 cm
Type:
Books
Accordion fold format (Binding)
Accordion fold format
Artists' books (books).)
Artists' books
Specimens
Place:
New York (State)
New York
Date:
2007
Notes:
Letterpress, diecut, and printed collagraph, and handset type in blue and black, signed and numbered in an edition of 200 by the artist together with Dikko Faust and Esther K. Smith of Purgatory Pie Press
CHMRB copy 39088017554411 is no. 152 of the limited edition
CHMRB copy includes cut-out rectangular sections loosely inserted in an envelope, as issued
Summary:
"Purgatory Pie Press and the artist Elizabeth Duffy have collaborated on a book that utilizes as source material everyday ephemeral patterns, specifically the interior security patterns of envelopes and the visual language of analog mail. The result is a page-turner of overlapping patterns and forms. Purgatory and Duffy culled patterns from their junk mail to create this paean to the quotidian"--http://printedmatter.org
