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Filename: 
abracadabra1.jpg
Identifier: 
Abracadabra1
Artist: 
Pfeiffer, Werner
Title: 
Abracadabra: An homage to N.H Werkman
Publisher: 
Pear Whistle Press
Edition: 
15 of 52
Year: 
2007
Creation Decade: 
2000-2009
Creation Century: 
21st Century
Dimensions: 
26x26 cm
Typeface 1: 
Univers Light
Description: 
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
Illustration processes: 
Printing on a Vandecook SP 20 proof press onto Mohawk superfine paper, 100 lbs cover, white. Flexagons mouned on Tyvek.
Call number: 
N7433.4.P504 A27 2007