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Eminent views / Bob Chaplin and Stephen Bann.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Artists' Books Folio Artists' Books 29
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaplin, Bob.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photomontage.
- Artists' books--United States.
- Artists' books.
- Buildings.
- United States.
- Buildings--United States--Pictorial works.
- United States--Pictorial works.
- Europe--Pictorial works.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Chaplin, Bob (autograph)
- Bann, Stephen (autograph)
- Hunt, John Dixon (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 50 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hampton, Conn. : B. Chaplin, 1995.
- Notes:
- "A historical sequence of vistas across European and American landscapes, and of the buildings contructed to establish them"--p.3.
- Artists' book consisting of text and images. ""Eminent views" is a project that explores places in Eastern United States and Europe which have been typified as "Views" and constructions which have been erected to mark the views. The thirteen double-spreads are a montage of panoramic photographs, mixed media and texts examining the rationale for these vantage points overlooking landscapes" -- prospectus.
- Limited ed. of 100 signed, numbered, and boxed books. Five extra copies are marked as Artists Proofs.
- Prospectus laid in.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Rare copy is number 12, signed by authors.
- OCLC:
- 33015518
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