Flipped out and superannuated
Flipped out and superannuatedTitle
Flipped out and superannuated
Description
Flip book created from painted catalog cards.
All my life I've made artists' books. In fact, as a kid growing up in Miami, I believed I'd "invented" a new art genre, unaware of the history of the Surrealist and other kinds of artists' books. When I came to New York in 1974, mail art was beginning, and I had my first taste of museum-quality book works by fine artists. I learned bookbinding from Richard Minsky at the Center for the Book Arts, and immediately abandoned the craft to invent new one-of-a-kind sculptural book forms mainly from found objects. For the next ten years I made around 100 books. In the mid-80's I stopped making books to paint again. When I heard that the University of Iowa Libraries was offering an opportunity to alter disused library cards, my love of making books was rekindled. A packet of cards arrived in the mail: that night in a dream I saw the title: "Flipped Out and Superannuated." So the next day I made a flip book to honor the obsolete, tactile and much missed tradition of flipping through drawers of c
Creator
Freeman, Jane
Publisher
University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Date
2006
2006-03-14
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/
Rights
Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the University of Iowa Libraries' Special Collections Department, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the Special Collections Department.
Relation
cARTalog
cARTalog Collection
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?MSC0859
Format
jpeg
Language
eng
Type
Artists' books; Flip books
Still image
Bookworks
Identifier
173618284