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Cartesian dreams / Mohns/Deschamps.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Artists' Books Folio Artists' Books 87
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mohns, J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists' books.
- Mohns, J.
- Deschamps, F.
- Toy and movable books--Specimens.
- Toy and movable books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mohns, J. (autograph)
- Deschamps, F. (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (31 x 142 cm.) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vinalhaven, Me. : Old Funeral Parlor, 1994.
- Notes:
- Title and statement of responsiblity from portfolio.
- "Cartesian dreams is an artists' book response to René Descartes' Discours de la methode, published in Leyden in 1637."--Colophon.
- "A Papyrus production, 1994."--Colophon.
- "Printed at the Old Funeral Parlor on Vinalhaven, Maine. Silkscreened on Rives BFK 100% Rag printmaking paper in an edition of 25."--Colophon.
- The book was produced for a traveling show entitled "Science and the Artists' Book", produced jointly by The Smithsonian Institution Library and The Washington Project for the Arts, and which opened in May of 1995 in Washington D.C.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Library has copy number 8.
- OCLC:
- 35095369
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