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Abracadabra : an homage to N.H. Werkman ; a set of typographic explorations / Werner Pfeiffer.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Artists' Books Artists' Books 333
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pfeiffer, Werner, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists' books--United States--Specimens.
- Artists' books.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Pfeiffer, Werner, 1937- (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Red Hook, N.Y. : Pear Whistle Press, 2007.
- Notes:
- Unbound pages are enclosed in a cloth-covered wrapper with printed spine; all inserted in a slipcase as issued.
- "Abracadabra is a book about magic. Not the illusory trickery of a conjuror, but the magic of an artist's work ... [Pfeiffer] developed a series of pages based on the characters which spell out the word Abracadabra. In order to embrace the illusionary realm with which the word is associated, [he] mounted the pages into three Flexagon structures; they magically appear and disappear by simply folding and flexing a piece of paper." -- Werner Pfeiffer (censor, villain, provocateur, experimenter): Book-Objects & Artist Books (Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, 2008), p. 59
- An edition of 52 numbered and signed copies.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.
- RBC has copy 6.
- OCLC:
- 247461200
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