Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Laucheron, Prawat
2. Nishio, Takumi.

Description

1. 14 prints : aquatint, col.; 37 x 49 cm. +

Subject

1. Bookbinding (Binding) > Wooden cases
2. Katz, Alex, 1927-
3. Plexiglas (TM)
4. Portrait prints, American
5. Poets, American > 20th century > Portraits
6. American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. Bookbinding (Binding) – Wooden cases.
2. Plexiglas (TM)

Contents

1. (Poems) Buddha on the bounty / Ted Berrigan -- Squatter in the foreground / Kenward Elmslie -- Dabble / John Godfrey -- The pears are the pears / Ted Greenwald -- Life / Michael Lally -- Then suddenly / Ann Lauterbach -- Rain / Gerard Malanga -- The Goddess who created this passing world / Alice Notley -- The stars / John Perreault -- Arrivederci, modernismo / Carter Ratcliff -- I remember the little house in the woods / Rene Ricard -- Ars / Peter Schjeldahl -- The sea and the wind / Tony Towle -- For Steve Royal / Bill Zavatsky.

Call number

1. Spencer Coll. Amer. 1978 92-212

Note

1. "A portfolio of fourteen original aquatints ... drawn by the artist on copper plates between January and June, 1978. Etching, proofing, and editioning by Prawat Laucheron, New York ... To accompany the portrait, each poet has contributed a poem"--Colophon.
2. Each print is signed and numbered 18/25 in pencil on lower left and bears the blind stamp of the printer on lower right.
3. Text (t.p., contents leaf, the 14 poems and colophon leaf) printed at Tri-Arts Press, New York.
4. Issued unbound, in a wooden case with Plexiglas top, made by Takumi Nishio, New York.
5. 35 copies printed on J. Green Hotpress paper (prints) and handmade Hodgkinson White Wove (text), including 10 artist's proofs.

Indexed in (note)

1. MOMA. American prints, 1960-1985
2. Maravell, N.P. Alex Katz, the complete prints

Author

1. Katz, Alex, 1927-

Title

1. Face of the poet / Alex Katz.

Imprint

1. New York, N.Y. : Brooke Alexander : Marlborough Graphics, [1978]

Indexed in:

1. MOMA. American prints, 1960-1985, p. 190
2. Maravell, N.P. Alex Katz, the complete prints, 96-109

Local note

1. No. 18/25.

Added author

1. Laucheron, Prawat, printer of plates.
2. Nishio, Takumi. Binder

Research call number

1. Spencer Coll. Amer. 1978 92-212