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Title(s)
Termite grid / Ron King ; cut by Anthony Hyde.
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Additional Title(s)
Log book 5
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Published/Created
[London] : [Circle Press], 1998.
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Physical Description
1 art original : wood ; 11 cm high, 8.5 cm in diameter
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.4.K55 T47 1998 Flat
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
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Notes
Imprint and author statement cut into bottom of log. Title cut into last leaf.
"Log books. An on-going project, begun in 1995, for a series of book-works which explore the possibilities of sawing a log of wood into book sections, or pages, which can be re-assembled into their original log form. There are variations in size for three main designs."--Cooking the books.
Cooking the books : Ron King and Circle Press, p. 176
Of green leaf, bird, and flower: artists' books and the natural world, p. 130
Selected exhibitions: â'Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower': Artists' Books and the Natural World" (Yale Center for British Art, May 15 - August 10, 2014).
"Termite grid. Inspired by the wood-worm track on the outside of a log, with finely sawn pages, codex-bound in linen, and a grid of holes drilled right through the thickness of the book block."--Cooking the books. -
Subject Terms
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Circle Press -- Publisher. | Trees. | Wood-carving -- Great Britain.
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Form/Genre
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
"Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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