Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Rosenquist's book gives the impression of a stream of consciousness look at the creative process. He created drafts for twelve hypothetical projects, complete with explanatory text, which he supposedly came up with while "waiting for an idea" for...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Fred Sandback, who would marry Amy Baker, was the first artist asked to create a project for Lapp Princess Press. As with many minimalist works, the title is also a description of the work itself. In this case, ten isometric drawings are...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Aycock's book is the most ambitious production of the Lapp Princess publications. A highly complex melding of found and descriptive text, archaeological photography, and images of Aycock's sculptural creation, this was the first of her false cities...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Chuck Close chose a leparello format for his Lapp Princess project. Here, he juxtaposes six completed printed portraits of his friend and frequent model Keith Hollingworth with actual size details showing his grid process. Close used a different...
Portraits -- Female;Bourbon del Monte, Jane, princess di San Faustino -- Portraits;Fur garments;Cloaks;Chairs;Watercolor painting, American -- 20th century;Seated figures
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
This work requires the active participation of the reader. An eighteen-by-twenty-four-inch piece of paper is folded at the requisite six-inch-square format, with the text of Shapiro's poem and Pozzi's illustration buried in the inside. A note...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Burgin used the format of a child's primer to produce a commentary on the role of the family in an industrial environment. Facing each brief statement is a page with a photograph, the letter of the first word in the statement in both upper and...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
The delicate sketches in this book recall Plimack Mangold's landscape painting and her trompe l'oeil tape frames. The work includes handwritten notes about her art. Much of the book is explained in her comment, "In my mind these works are as much...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Minimalist painter and printmaker Renouf describes the images in this book in three simple lines: FROM ONE TO MANY, FROM SHORT TO LONG, AND VICE VERSA. As the book progresses, the lines on the left page decrease in size and they increase in number....
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
In this project, Humphrey prefaces his drawn images with a page of ten adjectives--raw, robust, ripe, somber, erotic, joyous, tender, strong, intimate, harsh. The images themselves, each enclosed in a drawn frame, bring to mind the thickly applied...
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
Ferrara is known primarily as a sculptor, creating exterior spaces or wooden maquettes with an architectural idiom. Here, strict bird's-eye and elevation drawings of intricate projects create geometrically abstract patterns.
Lapp Princess Press : A Small Press and Artist Books from the late 1970s (Exhibition : 2007)
The images Gastini created for Parete or Walls recall his eponymous room-sized installations of markings applied to walls. Gastini began creating artist books in 1971. He saw the book as having a distinct role in both the creative process and in...
Ornamental half-title. Added illustrated title-page. Engraved half title. The illuminated book of needlework, bound as part 2, has individual t.-p.: The illuminated ladies' book of useful and ornamental needlework. Published anonymously in 1840...
Two volumes paged continuously. At head of title: Dedicated to H.R.M. Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne. Rest of title page: ... Illustrated with upwards of 800 wood engravings. Plain sewing, textiles, dressmaking, appliances, and terms / by...
Clans; Tartans; Highlands (Scotland); Clans -- Scotland -- History
Publication information based on title page of Volume 1. Volumes 1-4 continuously paged; Volumes 5-8 continuously paged. CAI copy has added engraved t.p. in v. 1: The Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments. CAI copy has t.p. and...
Rest of title page: "...by Ellen P. Claydon, Head Mistress of Chuckery Council School, Walsall, Author of "Handiwork and Needlework" and joint author of "Knitting without specimens" and C.A. Claydon, Sewing Mistress, Tantarra Street Mixed School,...
