Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 423

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
HELFGOTT, GLORIA. Shakespeare Once a Printer and Bookman. Mixed media paper assemblages containing a variety of string, collage, glitter, metal foil, and perforated pages, 5 of which fold out to display layers of verbo-visual imagery. The cut-up text taken from the 1972 reprint of William Jaggard's book Shakespeare Once a Printer and Bookman. 8vo, white paper-covered boards with central vertical inset lined with black string; felt-lined museum board folding box; prospectus for the Jaggard book laid in. unique artist's book focusing on shakespeare. (SA) New York: self-published, 1989

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"Much like a conventional author, Helfgott starts each book with a working title and she 'writes' her story around it. These 'conceptual puns,' as she calls them, must work visually as well as literally." Ruhling, "Artists" Books: A Viewer Friendly Form." Newsday, April 10, 1991.