Format:
239 Seiten
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37 cm
ISBN:
9780998318066
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9780998318042
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9780998318059
Content:
Only on Saturday features Jack Stauffacher's experimental typographic prints, which reveal his studies in composition and craft. After inheriting a box of old and mismatched wood type in 1966, Stauffacher began playing with the weathered letterforms "only on Saturday" as a break from his work week. These arrangements--some patterned with letters in different sizes and typefaces, some layered with multiple presses of a single letter, others awash insolvent--morphed from exploratory sessions in his off hours to formal studies of what was possible between the positive and negative spaces on a page. Only on Saturday examines five limited-edition portfolios of these prints, as well as his unbound individual and series prints. A selection of images from each project is paired with an essay detailing the process behind the work and tracing his influences--from his filmmaker brother Frank to modernist designer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. In addition, many of Stauffacher's long-time collectors and collaborators contribute first-person stories about his process and legacy
Note:
Deluxe edition includes a portfolio of 10 Facsimile Reproductions of select wood type prints by Jack Stauffacher and 10 Letterpress Prints of select wood type from the collection of Jack Stauffacher
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Deluxe edition limited to 200 copies
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Includes bibliographical references
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Introduction / Chuck Byrne -- Knowing Jack Stauffacher: Jack the printer / John D. Berry -- The studio at 300 Broadway / Pino Trogu -- Making Phaedrus / Jim Faris -- The reluctant mentor / Dennis Letbetter -- Noon to one-thirty / Kristina Bell -- About the prints: Only on Saturday / Chuck Byrne -- Conversation / Jack Stauffacher & Chuck Byrne -- Jack Stauffacher at SFMOMA / Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher -- Movements, moments, meditations / Staci Steinberger -- Collecting Jack / Stephen Coles -- Monoprints: Finding process / Chuck Byrne -- Carnegie experiments : shifting & inking -- Journal of typographic research -- Red square -- On & off inking : a5 Series, Red 2 Series -- Four M Series -- G rotation studies -- Broken C series -- Transparency : ma5 Series, CE Series, YY Series, P Series, NQ Series, Broken M Series -- Make-Ready Series -- Portfolios: Jack Stauffacher and Albert Camus / Chuck Bigelow ; The rebel Albert Camus : Portfolio 1 -- Book to portfolio / Chuck Byrne ; The wood letters of the Greenwood Press : Portfolio 2 -- Prints of wooden letters / Matthew Carter ; Wooden letters from 300 Broaday : Portfolio 3 -- Poetic truth / Dennis Letbetter ; The Vico collaboration : Portfolio 4 -- Poetic speech and visions / Nathan Garland ; Vico duodecimo axiom 65 : Portfolio 5 -- Editions: At hand / Michael Taylor -- At hand -- Golden Gate Bridge -- Tsunami -- Phaedrus -- Notes -- Index -- About the contributors -- About the editor & acknowledgments -- Credits -- Subscribers -- Colophon
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Stauffacher, Jack W. 1920-2017
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Druckgrafik
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Holz
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Letter
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Bildband
Author information:
Berry, John D. 1950-
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