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Tropos

Artist Kevin Osborn (American, born 1951)

Publisher Osbornbook, Arlington, VA, 1988

Printer Pyramid Atlantic, Washington D.C. (Gerald Claiborne and Brad Freeman)

Binder Norwitz Company, Washington, D.C.

Place of OriginArlington, Virginia

Date1988

Dimensionsbook: 8 1/4 x 6 5/16 in. (210 x 160mm)
page: 8 x 5 1/4 in. (203 x 133mm)

MediumReproductions: photolithographs of drawings in colors, printed in overlays to form progressively complicated images, with die-cut hole drilled through all pages Text: photolithography in colors, incorporated into images Paper: cream wove Mohawk Superfine paper Offset lithography on #70 Mohawk superfine with Tokyo inks. The cover is 17 pt. Lexotone.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

2000.45

Not on View

DescriptionArtists' book with round wood spine; the book is bound at a slant to form a rhomboidal solid. A small hole is die-cut straight through all the pages.

Published Referencescf. Drucker, Johanna, The Century of Artists' Books, Granary Books, New York, 1995, pp. 135-136 cf. Lauf, Cornelia and Clive Phillpot, Artist/Author: Contemporary Artists' Books, New York, 1998, no. 70Exhibition HistoryOne-man exhibition of his book was held at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1987.