Look see! said the Cyclops : (or Fool's Gold) / written & illustrated by Phil Day
- Bib ID:
- 6537505
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Day, Phil, 1973-, author, artist
- Description:
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- [Melbourne] Mountains Brown Press, 2013
- 12 unnumbered pages (the final 3 blank) : illustrations (some coloured) ; 14 cm
- Summary:
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An artist's book, consisting of two leaves of letterpress and five pages of etchings with pencilled captions. The initial letterpress invokes sight and touch in references to the blinded one-eyed giant Polyphemus, the artist's cat, blood, and the place of yellow in the spectrum of colours. The pencilled text relates brief accounts of what the artist describes on his website as "Four tragic-comic things I'd read on the Internet." They involve extreme instances of human behaviour and interpersonal relations. Each mini story is accompanied by an illustration, with an additional woodcut image of the Cyclops appearing on the title page and one other plate captioned "A portrait of our blazing sun."
- Notes:
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- Limited edition of 3 signed and numbered copies.
- National Library's SR copy is no. 3/3, and is accompanied by a copy of a letterpress printed invitation (featuring the Cyclops woodblock printed in red) for an exhibition of "Look See Said the Cyclops (or that, and three other books)" at the Hungry Workshop, Northcote, from 25 July to 8 August 2013
- Binding:
- Bound in natural linen covered boards with a purple spine, illustrated endpapers, and an embroidered image in brown and gold thread on the front cover.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Mountains Brown Press
- 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:
- 2013
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