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BETYE SAAR (1926 - ) Bookmarks in the Pages of Life.
Bound volume with complete text and 6 color screenprints on handmade Langdell paper, 2000. Each 381x279 mm; 15x11 inches, full margins. Edition of 300. Signed and numbered 174 in pencil on the justification page. Printed at Drexel Press, PA. Published by the Limited Editions Club, New York. In the original publisher's folding box.
Titles include: Magnolia Flower * Mother Catherine * High John De Conquer * The Conscience of the Court * The Bone of Contention * Now You Cookin' with Gas.
These complex collage images created in fabric and found photographs were transferred under Betye Saar's direction to silkscreened color and sepia-toned prints on hand-torn heavy Rosaspina paper (imbued with cinnamon bark), a paper specially selected by the artist. In the artist's Afterword, Saar says "Hurston was a 'Southerner with the map of Dixie on her tongue' . . . The Stories I selected span three decades and show Hurston's diversity in writing style."
