In this one-of-a-kind altered book, the artist, Lynn Skordal creates a “found poem” by transforming the 1991 edition of “Gift From the Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh with hand-cutting and heat-transferred images.
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The images were created from turn-of-the-century portraits and vintage photographs of unknown women from the 1930’s and 1940’s. In every image the women are evading the camera’s eye, and all their faces are hidden. The book’s existing text has been excised, leaving only a few phrases and words on each page, which then become a “found poem” and meditation on the unease and longing of women. (Summarized from 23sandy.com)
The tryals of Major Stede Bonnet, and other pirates. London : Printed for Benj. Cowse, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, M.DCC.XIX. [1719]
…Or Good Dogs! This is one of many clever and elegantly designed decorated initials found in the 1522 Johannes Froben printing of Erasmus’s version and translation of the New Testament.
A little pretty pocket-book : intended for the instruction and amusement of little Master Tommy, and pretty Miss Polly. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : by Isaiah Thomas, and sold, wholesale and retail, at his bookstore, 1787.
A two-volume collection of erotic art engraved on gemstones from classical antiquity, published as a suite of handcolored engravings in 1771. Digitized at the links below.
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