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Only on Saturday : the wood type prints of Jack Stauffacher / editor, Chuck Byrne ; contributors, Kristina Bell, John D. Berry, Chuck Bigelow, Matthew Carter, Stephen Coles, Jim Faris, Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Nathan Garland, Dennis Letbetter, Staci Steinberger, Michael Taylor, Pino Trogu.
LIBRA Rare Z232.S83 S83 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-2017, artist, designer, interviewee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-2017.
- Stauffacher, Jack W.
- Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-2017--Catalogs.
- Printers--United States.
- Printers.
- Letterpress printing--California--San Francisco--20th century.
- Letterpress printing.
- Wood types (Printing)--California--San Francisco--20th century.
- Wood types (Printing).
- Graphic design (Typography)--California--San Francisco--20th century.
- Graphic design (Typography).
- Graphic arts--California--San Francisco--20th century.
- Graphic arts.
- California--San Francisco.
- United States.
- Genre:
- catalogs (documents)
- Catalogs.
- Art criticism.
- Wood types (Type evidence)
- Letterpress types (Type evidence)
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 37 cm
- Distribution:
- New York, NY : Artbook D.A.P.
- Manufacture:
- China : Artron Art Printing Limited
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Letterform Archive, [2023]
- Summary:
- Only on Saturday features Jack Stauffacher's experimental typographic prints, which reveal his studies in composition and craft. After inheriting a box of old and mismatched wood type in 1966, Stauffacher began playing with the weathered letterforms "only on Saturday" as a break from his work week. These arrangements--some patterned with letters in different sizes and typefaces, some layered with multiple presses of a single letter, others awash in solvent--morphed from exploratory sessions in his off hours to formal studies of what was possible between the positive and negative spaces on a page. Only on Saturday examines five limited-edition portfolios of these prints, as well as Stauffacher's unbound individual and series prints. A selection of images from each project is paired with an essay detailing the process behind the work and tracing his influences--from his filmmaker brother Frank to modernist designer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. In addition, many of Stauffacher's long-time collectors and collaborators contribute first-person stories about his process and legacy. (Source of description unknown.)
- Contents:
- Introduction / Chuck Byrne
- Knowing Jack Stauffacher: Jack the printer / John D. Berry
- The studio at 300 Broadway / Pino Trogu
- Making Phaedrus / Jim Faris
- The reluctant mentor / Dennis Letbetter
- Noon to one-thirty / Kristina Bell
- About the prints: Only on Saturday / Chuck Byrne
- Conversation / Jack Stauffacher & Chuck Byrne
- Jack Stauffacher at SFMOMA / Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher
- Movements, moments, meditations / Staci Steinberger
- Collecting Jack / Stephen Coles
- Monoprints: Finding process / Chuck Byrne
- Carnegie experiments : shifting & inking
- Journal of typographic research
- Red square
- On & off inking : a5 Series, Red 2 Series
- Four M Series
- G rotation studies
- Broken C series
- Transparency : ma5 Series, CE Series, YY Series, P Series, NQ Series, Broken M Series
- Make-Ready Series
- Portfolios: Jack Stauffacher and Albert Camus / Chuck Bigelow ; The rebel Albert Camus : Portfolio 1
- Book to portfolio / Chuck Byrne ; The wood letters of the Greenwood Press : Portfolio 2
- Prints of wooden letters / Matthew Carter ; Wooden letters from 300 Broadway : Portfolio 3
- Poetic truth / Dennis Letbetter ; The Vico collaboration : Portfolio 4
- Poetic speech and visions / Nathan Garland ; Vico duodecimo axiom 65 : Portfolio 5
- Editions: At hand / Michael Taylor
- At hand
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Tsunami
- Phaedrus
- Notes
- Index
- About the contributors
- About the editor & acknowledgments
- Credits
- Subscribers
- Colophon
- Notes:
- Deluxe edition includes a portfolio of 10 facsimile reproductions of select wood type prints by Jack Stauffacher and 10 letterpress prints of select wood type from the collection of Jack Stauffacher.
- Deluxe edition limited to 200 copies.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Deluxe edition bound in green cloth with printed paper title label on spine and one of Stauffachers prints laid on front cover of volume and front cover of matching slipcase. Portfolio covered in matching green cloth, with green ribbon corners holding in the prints. Volume and portfolio held in slipcase.
- Regular edition bound in illustrated boards with red and white dust jacket.
- LIBRA Rare copy Z232.S83 S83 2023 acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2023 from Letterform Archive with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund. Copy is the deluxe edition.
- ISBN:
- 9780998318066
- 099831806X
- 9780998318042
- 0998318043
- 9780998318059
- 0998318051
- OCLC:
- 1385980603
- Online:
- The Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund Home Page
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