Detail View: Artists' Books Collection:
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Filename:
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abracadabra1.jpg
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Identifier:
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Abracadabra1
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Artist:
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Pfeiffer, Werner
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Title:
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Abracadabra: An homage to N.H Werkman
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Publisher:
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Pear Whistle Press
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Edition:
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15 of 52
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Year:
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2007
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Creation Decade:
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2000-2009
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Creation Century:
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21st Century
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Dimensions:
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26x26 cm
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Typeface 1:
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Univers Light
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Description:
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Slip cover holds hard cover book that lies flat and opens to reveal single pages; pages are typographic explorations of the word Abracadabra in homage to the artist N.H Werkman; includes biography of Werkman and his style; each page features one letter of the Abracadabra spell designed and created in his process of placing paper on the press bed and the inked print element is placed face down on the paper: pages are combined to make three rotating flexagons; signed by artist
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Illustration processes:
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Printing on a Vandecook SP 20 proof press onto Mohawk superfine paper, 100 lbs cover, white. Flexagons mouned on Tyvek.
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Call number:
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N7433.4.P504 A27 2007
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