Author: FRANKS, PAMELA (FOREWORD0; JOCK REYNOLDS (INTRODUCTION); CONTRIBUTIONS BY ANDREW HAWKES, ASHLEY JAMES, JESSICA KEMPNER, ET.AL.
Title: Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection
Description: New Haven, Yale Un iversity Art Gallery. 2014, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780894679810). dos-à-dos, folded card stock, 9" x 6.5". Exhibition Catalogue, 191 pp. text volume; 194-263 pp. images volume. Two volumes in dos-à-dos binding, or back-to-back: fore edges and spines are adjacent and the volumes share a back board at the divide. An extensive collection of book art, which is not books with art within. Rather, individual books, the objects, that heve been changed by cutting, sanding, milling, wetting, bending, any process imaginable. Informative text with illustration, including an interview with Chasanoff, whose collection dates from the late 60s. The second volume a catalog of the images of the books. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine.

Keywords: Book Art Chasanoff Beube Ambe Ashbaugh Barbuzza Berk Decorative Arts Books on Books 9780894679810


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