Unfolding Poems

Creator

Michele Wong Albanese
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

Files

Creation Date

1-1-1996

Keywords

artists' books; poetry; Ciro, Marcia (American photographer and book artist, contemporary)

Description

1 box (with 8 individual pieces). Wild cats can / Mary-Ann Agresti ([1] folded leaf of plate : all illustrations ; 11 cm) -- I wonder / Ruth Ellen Baxter (1 volume (without pages) : all illustrations ; 11 cm) -- Personal effects / Marcia Ciro ([1] folded leaf (pop-up) ; 11 cm) -- In my hands / Tamara Oppenheimer ([1] folded leaf (with movable parts) : all illustrations ; 11 cm) -- Meditations on leaving / Deborah Klotz-Paris (1 box (with text on ribbon) : chiefly illustrations ; 11 x 11 x 6 cm) -- Vacuum sealed / Teresa Shields ([2] folded leaves of plates ; 11 cm) --Beyond the Museum of Fine Arts / Stephanie Mahan Stigliano ([8] leaves of plates (accordion layout) ; 11 cm) -- On South Cape Beach / Janine Wong ([10] leaves of plates (accordion layout) ; 10 cm). Edition of 27 copies. A collaboration between one poet and eight artists. Each book contained in the box presents a different poem as interpreted by the artist. Printing includes letterpress, silkscreen, inkjet, photocopy transfer on various papers and ribbon, metal, glass, and fabric. Bindings include accordion and flag. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of Marcia Ciro, RISD Alumna, GD BFA, 1977.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1474529~S4

Press

[Place of publication not identified] : [The Authors], 1995

Rights

[Place of publication not identified] : [The Authors], ©1996

Materials / Techniques

letterpress printing; screen printing; inkjet printing; photocopying ; ribbon (material); metal; glass (material); paper

Measurements

13 x13 x13 cm