Beyond icthyology : the fine art of fish illustration; selected artistic adventures with references to famous explorations and illustrations

Description:	Gift to the Herron Art Library, Given by the Frank and Patricia Owings Foundation, in Memory of Portfolio Member, Jan Bridgins, (1930-2023) Design, collages and binding by Carol Schwartzott. Printed in black and blue on Rives BFK in Optima, Zapfino and Gill Sans by Brad Benedict at Blacks Corner Letterpress. Six pamphlets, spine-stitched with a spacer of hand-dyed Japanese paper. The collages are individually built with additions of scanned images of fish that have been altered withcolored pencil, archival markers, and paint. Bound in brown Japanese bookcloth with layers and decorated paper title label with handstitching. Japanese hand-dyed endpapers. Laid in a matching brown cloth dropback box, lined with handmarbled and dyed rag paper and a brown silk ribbon for easy removal of book. One in an edition of 10 copies thus, signed by Carol Schwartzott. Laid in are 3 sheets of paper - explaining concept, a physical description, and sources of reference.--Description from Joshua Heller Rare Books catalogue (accessed July 12, 2018),: The book represents almost a years work ... from the original research to the design of typography and art, printing and binding. References are given to show the source of each of the 18 different kinds of fish used in the collages. [This book] is based on the premise of the natural history texts that accompanied the great age of exploration and discovery. Drawnby naturalists/scientists, or sometimes an accompanying artist, these visual accounts recorded species that were too delicate and unable to survive the long voyage home.The idea of a book that would connect the past to the present without replicating slowly evolved, and soon my fish would connect thoughts that reflected science, history, philosophy, and literature. Words were reduced to a minimum to create pages that could provide interesting typography and art.The collages contain a history of their own, for if you look carefully you will find among them many different papers snippets of other books. Housed in color related boxes, my papers are piles of color and noise, layers that contain complexities of pattern and combinations that I would never select had I to sit down and manipulate single sheets. ... Very often the Happy Accident that Joseph Cornell often referred to happens ... and things magically appear. ...--Artist statement from Joshus Heller Rare Books catalogue (accessed July 12, 2018)Schwartzott has created her own visual account of her journey into the world of Ichthyology. In her account scientific names and illustrators accompany each collage title as we study Salvelinus alpinus / Almoniformes (mountain trout or char) from Donovan (1802-08), Moron boussouck (rotton moron) from Renard (1754), and Anthurus lineatus (blue-lined surgeonfish) from Bennett (1830) plus 15 others.I-ART: Book no.6/10, signed, numbered, and dated by the artist.
Origin:	2005
Created By:	Schwartzott, Carol
Publisher:	New York : Blacks Corner Letterpress, 2005.
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/1181
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Ichthyology.--Pictorial works. Marine fishes.--Pictorial works. Artists books United States 21st century. Collages. spine stitched with spacers six pamphlets, hand-dyed Japanese paper, Japanese book-cloth, lidded box lined in hand-marbled and dyed rag paper

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