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Description
[53] pages : ill. Limited edition of 150 copies. Cover title. Letterpress artist's book created by Ruth Laxson. Binding is Japanese side-sewn style. "Printed on Birch Royal Fiber, UV Ultra II and Warren Patina, using typography, type-high engraving and offset. The type is mainly Caslon and Franklin Gothic. It was hand set and composed on the press bed."--Colophon. Typographical illustrations are combinations of letters, lines, symbols, and drawings. White paint applied to two images. Library has copy no. 60 signed by the artist.
Publication Date
1999
Publisher
Press 63+
Keywords
religion (discipline); spiritualism; gender issues; image-making; play (recreation); technology; cosmology; Nature; artists' books
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Materials/Techniques
offset lithography; letterpress printing; visual poetry; concrete poetry; handwriting; monologues; stamping (marking); line drawings (drawings); cutouts; word and number puzzles and games; collage (technique); Traditional format
Measurements
27 cm
Rights
©Atlanta, Ga. : Press 63+, c1999.
RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Laxson, Ruth; Collections, Special; and Library, Fleet, "Muse Measures" (1999). Ruth Laxson Artist Book Archive. 10.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_artistsbookscollection_ruthlaxsonarchive/10