Visbytes / Peter Lyssiotis
- Bib ID:
- 7126899
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Lyssiotis, Peter, artist
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] : Masterthief, 2012
- 10 numbered booklets, 1 unnumbered booklet : colour illustrations ; 26 cm (in clamshell box 28.3 x 19.3 x 8.2 cm.)
- Summary:
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An artist's book dedicated to Woody Guthrie, completed for publication in 2012 (the centenary of his birth), although the binding was not finished until 2016. The title takes the idea of the soundbite and applies it to the still photograph. The photomontages are tipped-in 7 P digital pigment prints made by Splitting Image. The paper is Somerset Book 175 gsm. The photomontages and letterpress printed text are presented in eleven booklets in red covers, enclosed in a red and black buckram clamshell box.-Adapted in part from the colophon.
- Full contents:
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- 1. A short interview with history
- 2. A short history of cities
- 3. Borders and their history
- 4. Occupation in 3 frames
- 5. A short history of religion
- 6. The short history of trading
- 7. Colonizing the seed
- 8. The short history of trees
- 9. The short history of language
- 10. Political photomonteurs give you the courage to throw bricks: just look at Josep Renau's The American Way of Life (1952-1966)
- [Colophon].
- Notes:
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- Title from cover.
- The letter 'Y' in the title is typeset above the baseline with a letter 'I' below it.
- Handset type, printing & binding by Nick Doslov of Renaissance Bookbinding.
- Volume 10 typeset in hot metal at Melbourne Museum of Printing.
- Limited edition of 8 copies, with 2 artists' proofs, numbered and signed by the artist.
- National Library's SR copy is no. 6.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
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- Visbites
- Visbyites
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2012
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