The River (Plain Wrapper Poets No. 3)

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The River (Plain Wrapper Poets No. 3)

Artist Roger Selden (American, born 1945)

Publisher Plain Wrapper Press, Verona, Italy, 1981

Printer text: Plain Wrapper Press (Gabriel Rummonds and Alessandro Zanella); typography: H. Berthold A.G., Berlin; plates: Giorgio Upiglio

Author Paul Zweig (American, 1935-1984)

Date1981

DimensionsBox: H: 11 1/4 in. (286 mm); W: 8 3/8 in. (213 mm); Depth: 3/4 in. (19 mm).
Book: H: 10 11/16 in. (272 mm); W: 8 1/8 in. (206 mm); Depth: 7/16 in. (11 mm).
Page: H: 10 5/8 in. (270 mm); W: 7 15/16 in. (201 mm).
Image: H: 6 1/4 in. (158 mm); W: 6 1/2 in. (165 mm).

MediumOriginal print: 2 etchings in colors, incl. cover. Text: letterpress in black with red (typeface: Post Medieaval). Paper: handmade Wookey Hole Mill white wove paper

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.1081

Not on View

Label TextJanet Zweig, Heinz and Judy: A Play (1985) Artist Janet Zweig wrote the following statement about Heinz and Judy: “In my artist’s books, I experimented with narrative structure in several ways…. For Heinz and Judy I used several parallel narratives running through the entire book. On each page, the reader can see a slice of all the narratives as they intersect. This intersection invents the new narrative where Heinz and Judy meet. In 1984, I stood on a friend’s terrace in Boston and cast shadows onto paste-ups of each page spread of the book. The spreads had little snippets of paper scotch-taped to them, placed to correspond to the text blocks. These snippets cast their own shadows, too. Various friends and objects also cast their shadows according to the script of my play …. I photographed these shadows every day at the same time for a couple of weeks. I also made some marks on paper and set some type. I gave this all to a printer in New York (Kwik International); they made color separations, stripped in the line art and drawings I provided. They printed the book on a very small four-color proofing press, one spread at a time.”