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Description:	This contribution from Frank N. and Patricia L. Owings is given in memory of The Portfolio Club of Indianapolis IN member, John (Jack) Munson (1934-2020) By students of Scripps College under the direction of Kitty MaryattBook consists of double sided, accordion-folded sections sewn together in pairs; illustrated with pop-ups and papercuts and is letterpress printed. In clear acrylic slipcase.On January 7, 2010, just days before class was to start, The Los Angeles Times published a fascinating article on contemporary women architects, highlighting a striking building by Jeannie Gang. Serendipitously, Lori Bettison-Varga, the new President of Scripps College, chose “The Genius of Women” as her inaugural theme earlier this year! This gave us the perfect inspiration for our artist book: the genius of women architects. After extensive research and class discussion, a mission statement for the book evolved: architecture, like books, is a delicate balancing act between stability and motion, interior and exterior, aesthetic values and structural practicalities. Books, like buildings, are fundamentally inhabited spaces. They are incomplete without human interaction. “I think with my hands,” states Maya Lin, noted architect, in her book Boundaries. The students developed structural imagery using only paper by thinking with their hands. The first portals were built of post and lintel construction. A curved arch is more difficult: the keystone is needed at the apex to lock the other pieces into position. Building a book is similarly difficult feat.This book was built by ten women paper architects. Their tools were knives and bone folders, and four Vandercook printing presses. They blended three typefaces chosen for their affinity and distinctiveness: Garamond, Ehrhardt, and Fournier. Heather paper from China was selected for its natural stone-like colors of oatmeal, sage, charcoal, and mahogany. It was exactly the right stiffness for cut-aways and pop-ups. The tops of the rising sections were hand-cut to suggest a natural landscape where built structures fit into their environment, which changes as you manipulate the book into different configurations. You move from the outside to the inside, as if through openings. Edition of 109. Measures 4 x 15.75 inches with 64 pages. The double-sided accordion fold binding is housed in an acrylic slipcase.-- Kitty Maryatt introduction from publishers website (accessed August 20, 2018).This book was built by ten women paper architects. Their tools were knives and bone folders, and four Vandercook printing presses. They blended three typefaces ...: Garamond, Ehrhardt, and Fournier.--Colophon.Paper architects: Jenny Karin Morrill; Ali Standish; Alycia Lang; Jennifer Wineke; Mandesha Marcus; Catherine Wang; Kathryn Hunt; Ilse Wogau; Jennifer Cohen, Winnie Ding.I-ART: Library has copy no. 27/109.
Origin:	2010
Created By:	Chen, Jennifer; Ding, Winnie; Hunt, Kathryn; Marcus, Mandesha; Maryatt, Kitty; Morrill, Jenny Karin; Standish, Ali; Wineke, Jennifer
Publisher:	Claremont, Calif. : Scripps College Press, 2010.
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/1728
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Artists books--California. Toy and movable books--California. Women architects--California. Type and type-founding. Accordion fold format (Binding) California 21st century. Typefaces (Type evidence) Garamond. Typefaces (Type evidence) Ehrhardt. Typefaces (Type evidence) Fournier. double-sided accordion fold format

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