Ode to a Grand Staircase (For Four Hands)
Library Information and Colophon
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Title |
Ode to a Grand Staircase (For Four Hands) View record in Reed Digital Collections |
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Publication |
Berkeley, CA: Flying Fish Press; Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 2001 |
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Library Call # |
N7433.4.C44 O34 2001 View Reed library catalog record |
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Description |
1v. (29p.): col. Ill.; 19x97cm. Folded to 19x17cm |
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Colophon/Notes |
Limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the artists. Letterpress printed cut card panels attached to concertinas on both sides creating two spines. Pages are cut in layers to resemble a staircase and open from the center in the fashion of french doors. Issued in cloth-covered drop-spine box, with magnetic closure. |
| ColophoN |
Julie Chen, Barbara Tetenbaum, artists. The text of Ode to a Grand Staircase comes from Satie’s The March of the Grand Staircase, composed in 1914. It is one of the three Enfantines that Satie composed to suit the size of a child’s hand. The text is derived from the musical directives and silent librettos which accompany his scores. Thanks to Anna Sacramento for production assistance and to Claudia Wober for the translation. |
Biographies
Barbara Tetenbaum
(1957- )
American
Barbara Tetenbaum is an artist and writer working in traditional and experimental letterpress techniques and book construction. She was born March 10th 1957 in Cincinnati OH, and raised in the western suburbs of Chicago.1 In 1985 Tetenbaum received an MFA in printmaking at the Art Institute of Chicago, and has since been printing limited edition artists' books under Triangle Press.2
Julie Chen
(1963- )
American
Julie Chen is a conceptual book artist and the founder of Flying Fish Press in Berkeley California where she produces limited edition artists' books using innovative letterpress and book binding techniques. She received an MA in Book Arts from Mills College where she now teaches bookmaking.3
Footnotes
1 Barbara Tetenbaum. Half-Life: 25 Years of Books by Barbara Tetenbaum & Triangular Press. Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 2005; 20.
2 “Pushing the Margins: an Exhibition of Northwest Book Arts.” White Lotus Gallery. Web. 9 November 2006. View website
3 “Julie Chen.” San Francisco Center for the Book. Web. 3 December 2008. View website
Other Books in Special Collections by these Authors
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Title |
Leavings |
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Julie Chen |
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Publication |
Berkeley, CA: Flying Fish Press, 1997 |
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Library Call # |
N7433.4.C44 L43 1992 View Reed library catalog record |
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Description |
24p.: col. ill.; 17cm |
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Notes |
Illustrated card stock in accordian fold format, with mounted text, illustrated within cutout mats and artifacts attached to baggage labels that are inserted in pockets of some of the panels. |
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Cumbia, Cumbia |
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Barbara Tetenbaum |
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Publication |
Portland, OR: Triangular Press, 1998 |
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Library Call # |
N7433.4.T47 C86 1998 View Reed library catalog record |
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Description |
1v. unpaged: chiefly col. ill.; 28cm |
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Notes |
Titled handwritten inside book and signed by artist. |
| Title |
Leavings |
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Julie Chen |
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Publication |
Berkeley, CA: Flying Fish Press, 1997 |
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Library Call # |
N7433.4.C44 L43 1992 View Reed library catalog record |
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Description |
24p.: col. ill.; 17cm |
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Notes |
Illustrated card stock in accordian fold format, with mounted text, illustrated within cutout mats and artifacts attached to baggage labels that are inserted in pockets of some of the panels. |
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Dedictvi = Inheritance, or “Thanks” from Ustinad Labem |
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Barbara Tetenbaum |
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Publication |
Madison, WI: Triangular Press, 2003 |
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Library Call # |
N7433.4.T58 D55 2003 View Reed library catalog record |
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Description |
19p.: col. ill.; 22cm |
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Notes |
Limited edition of 15 copies. |
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Half-life: 25 Years of Books by Barbara Tetenbaum and Triangular Press |
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Barbara Tetenbaum |
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Publication |
Portland,OR: Triangular Press, 2005 |
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Library Call # |
N7433.4.T47 H26 2005 View Reed library catalog record |
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Description |
45p.: ill.; 28cm |
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Notes |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Collins Gallery at Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon in December of 2005. |
References and Links
Flying Fish Press. Web. 3 January 2005. View artist website
“Julie Chen.” San Francisco Center for the Book. Web. 3 December 2008. View website
“Pushing the Margins: an Exhibition of Northwest Book Arts.” White Lotus Gallery. Web. 9 November 2006. View website