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Folding paper : technique, design, obsession
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Folding paper: : technique, design, obsession : [prospectus]
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A prospectus for Folding paper: technique, design, obsession by Claudia Cohen and Barbara Hodgson, creators of the artists' books Cutting paper and Decorating paper. The book explores the art of folded paper, and will feature some "tipped-in examples from education, toymaking, computational geometry, pleating, origami and packaging. Included will be examples shown in progress, as well as finished pieces, in a variety of papers. The box will house about 15 three-dimensional pieces and a Zhen Xian Bao, a magical Chinese thread box. Brief essays discuss approaches to folding techniques, the process of creating illustrated pieces, and paper choices. The book will be housed in a custom box. The edition of 30 numbered copies, uniformly bound, will be signed by Barbara and Claudia. The binding will have a gold-tooled and stamped leather spine and fore-edge with paste paper over boards."
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Blood on paper
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"This exhibition explores the place of the book in the work of great contemporary and modern artists and in so doing provides insight into the creative and conceptual processes involved. It aims to show a selection of works by outstanding artists and publishers that take the form of books."..."--Introductory folded leaf [1].
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The WunderCabinet : the curious worlds of Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen
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" ... The WunderCabinet is Cohen and Hodgson's interpretation of ... 16th-to-18th century cabinets of curiosities. It is a glimpse into the authors' own collections through essays, images and objects. ... In the spirit and mode of the authors' ongoing series of books exploring color ..., the many & diverse images ... take a variety of forms, whether engraved, hand drawn, hand coloured, layered or collaged. Objects included with the book follow this tradition and complement the topics covered in the book." -- publisher's website.
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Three portfolios of paper art samples from Germany
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Three portfolios of samples from Germany which represent various forms of art with paper: paperweaving, sewing cards and paper-cutting and folding. The first set, in Env. 1, is entitled Flecht -u.-Ausuäh Schule; the second, in Env. 2, Versdur-u.-Buchzeichen Schule (Stringing and Bookmarking School); and the third, in Env. 3, Falt-u.-Ausscheide Schule (Folding and Cutouts School). The name "Louise Chur" is stamped at the bottom of the front cover of each of the three portfolios. The first portfolio contains 24 numbered (in ms.) samples of paper weaving, each labeled "Blott" and has "Louise Chur" written in ms., in ink, in the upper right-hand corner. Each sheet measures 5 3/4 in. W x 8 3/4 in. H ; 14.5 cm. W x 22.2 cm. H. The second portfolio contains a total of 23 samples of artwork; the first 11 of which are completed sewing cards; the next 2 are yarn tracings, and the last 10 are examples of paper weaving and folding. The sizes of the pieces vary. The third portfolio contains 20 examples of paper folding and paper cutouts, mounted onto cardstock. Much of the paper folding samples are reminiscent of origami. Each completed, mounted piece measures 8 in. W x 10 3/8 in. H ; 20.3 cm. W x 26.4 cm. H Title supplied by cataloger.
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Book on folding
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The Nancy and Henry Rosin collection of valentine, friendship, and devotional ephemera contains materials from Europe and North America dating from 1493 to the late 2010s. The bulk of the collection consists of greeting cards exchanged on Valentine’s Day, dating from approximately 1840 to 1930. Early handcrafted valentine cards found within the greeting cards subseries demonstrate folk art methods of pinpricking, paper cutting, paper folding, painting, puzzle making, and illustration. Other cards dating from the Victorian era include comic or “vinegar” valentines, paper lace valentines, cobweb valentines, and cards created by various printing, embossing, and assemblage techniques. Many of the late 19th-century cards are dimensional and mechanical paper constructions, made with a combination of die-cut scraps, honeycomb tissue paper, and levers, strings, or wheels that enable the cards to pop-up or move. Also included in the collection are greeting cards exchanged for other holidays and events, friendship cards dating from the Biedermeier era, friendship albums with locks of hair, language of flowers almanacs and booklets, matrimonial documents, sachets, verse writers, religious devotional items, mourning cards, scrapbook albums, and correspondence relating to love and courtship. The collection also contains artifacts and three-dimensional items such as fans, jewelry boxes, shadow boxes, and additional items, some of which include fragile, glass components. Smaller portions of the collection include educational ephemera, such as rewards of merit and bookmarks, and American Civil War ephemera, such as greeting cards and song sheets. Additional materials include artist and organizational files relating to illustrator Catherine “Kate” Greenaway, printer Louis Prang, and 20th-century greeting card companies Rust Craft and Norcross. The last series of this collection contains research materials compiled by valentine scholar Charles Albert Reed and by Nancy Rosin. The materials consist largely of secondary sources, notes, and newspaper clippings.
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Jack London notebook
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Although this was originally Jack London's high school geometry notebook, London used it as a scrapbook after the original use. Most of the notebook pages have bits of paper glued onto them with quotes, lists of names (surnames, female names, male names, etc.), as well as lists of words in their vernacular such as "White Southern Vernacular," "Low Irish Vernacular," "California Spanish Vernacular," etc. Most of that material is typewritten but there is also handwritten material by London in the notebook. There are still several pages with mathematical equations in London's hand. Handwritten on the cover: "Jack London - Geometry" and "A.U.A.-'96."
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