A play on color : interaction of color in letterpress

Description:	Assistant Professor J. Suzanne Powney of Starkville has been awarded a $500 grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC). This grant is a portion of the grants the Commission awarded in 2016-2017 and will be used to create a series of artist books on the interaction of color in letterpress. The grants are made possible by continued funding from the Mississippi State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.The book A Play on Color: Interaction of Color in Letterpress is an investigation of letterpress prints, in honor of Josef Albers book Interaction of Color. The images are directly inspired and reinterpreted based on the pages of the 50th anniversary edition and from viewing the original screen prints. The play of color and perception are a beautiful treatise on color theory. The artist added text as commentary as the book unfolds to reveal the composition in color.--Artist statement from Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website (accessed July 11, 2018).Suzanne Powney is a book artist and letterpress printer, founder of BlackDog Letterpress in 2001. She learned her craft from master printers who ran the print shop at the Museum of Printing History in Houston, Texas. She went on to get her MFA in Graphic Communications from the University of Houston while also working as a lecturer teaching letterpress to the undergraduates. She feels with the leaps in technology and the speed of results of on demand printing, there lies a tactile disconnect that she has found in the art printing wood and metal type. She is always investigating the traditional craft of letterpress and book arts as she works in the current technological driven graphic design world. Her work is about tactility and why we are drawn to intimate objects, through images and words--BlackDog Letterpress website, viewed August 25, 2017.I-ART: Library has 6/48, signed by the artist.
Origin:	2017
Created By:	Powney, Suzanne
Publisher:	Starkville, Mississippi: BlackDog Letterpress, 2017.
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/1748
Collection:	Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	Artists books Mississippi. Accordion fold format (Binding) Typefaces (Type evidence) Caslon. Typefaces (Type evidence) Franklin Gothic. Letterpress printing. sewn binding Cranes Lettra, Caslon Oldstyle, boards, cloth slipcase, quarter cloth

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