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Fresnel's Tower: Why Lighthouses Are Like Stars
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Fresnel's Tower: Why Lighthouses Are Like Stars

Artist Charles Hobson (American, born 1943)
Publisher Pacific Editions, San Francisco, 1997 (Charles Hobson)
Printer photogravure: Kay Bradner and Charles Dobson, [San Francisco?]
Author Charles Hobson (American, born 1943)
Date1997
MediumOriginal book object: photolithographs of diagrams on hand-painted paper and laser prints of color monotypes affixed to cardboard cylinders that nest or can be stacked with silver cards Original print: hand-colored photogravure (book) Reproductions: photolithographs of diagrams (book) Text: photolithography (book; typeface: Cantoria, New Century Schoolbook); letterpress (cards) Paper: cream laid paper (book); white wove Rives Lightweight paper (cylinders)
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund
Object number
2000.20
Not on View
Published Referenceshttp://www.charleshobson.com/books/index.htmlExhibition HistoryTMA New Acquisitions in Graphic Arts, Dec. 21, 2001-March 30, 2002

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