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Production Narrative
by J.Drucker
The book is offset printed, but the plates look like they were made directly, with masks and tusche wash, not through photographic means.
Critical Analysis
by J.Drucker
Design Features
typographic: The calligraphic cover is very nice and expressive.
imagery: Expressionistic but in a mild, dreamlike way, of the dog and the bark.
graphical:
openings:
turnings:
development: The story of the dog's barking exhausts itself as a sense of movement and change occurs.
sequence: Aside from the "story" the sequence has a certain dynamism because of changes of scale and position of the dogs and their barks.
textual:
structure:
conceptual:
intratextual:
scultpural features:
temporal features:
other features:
Critical Discussion
The book is simple, but graphically strong, and the visual impact combined with the well-realized production make this a tone-poem work, a single theme and idea, but played out through a good execution.
Detailed Analysis
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General Comments
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Black Dog White Bark
title note: []
Agents
Erica Van Horn
type: initiating
role:
artist
binder
nationality:
born: US
location:
note: []
Louis Asekoff
type: other
role:
calligrapher
location:
Brad Freeman
type: other
role:
printer
Erica Van Horn
type: initiating
role:
artist
binder
nationality:
born: US
location:
note: []
Louis Asekoff
type: other
role:
calligrapher
location:
Brad Freeman
type: other
role:
printer
Publication Information
edition type: editioned
publisher: Visual Studies Workshop Press
place: Rochester, NY
dates:
publication: 1987-00-00
edition size: 200 copies
note: []
Measurements
horizontal: 5.08 inches closed
vertical: 8.25 inches closed
depth: 0.12 inches closed
Production Information
production means:
offset (local)
binding: hand sewn (local)
binding: other stab
substrate:
bookBlock: paper
media:
ink (local)
other materials:
Appearance
general description: The work is comprised of textured blue paper featuring slanting black streaks. Hand sewn stab binding stained with black ink or paint. Assembled to be flipped up like a noepad.
format: flip (AAT)
cover: Blue paper with large black stylized letters featuring the title of the work.
color: no
devices:
enclosures:
item:
Content
pagination: unpaginated
numbered?: unnumbered
signed?: unsigned
Colophon
Test by Louis Asekoff. Drawings by Erica Van Horn. This book has been produced by Erica Van Horn, in an edition of 200 copies, during a residency at Visual Studies Workshop in April of 1987. The artist-in-residence program is supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Exhibition Information
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General Comments
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