Dania Beach, FL: Claire Jeanine Satin, 1987-1997. A unique artists' book from Claire Jeanine Satin, a well known book artist, sculptor and designer of public art installations. Satin's work has been extensively exhibited and collected in the United States and in Europe, including at The Library of Congress, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Getty (CA), MOMA, and The Victoria and Albert Museum. She is known especially for her conceptual works in uenced by the ideas of her friend and mentor the composer/visual artist John Cage, and the conversion of ordinary industrial materials into environmental constructions and book works of layered transparent mass. She states that the title of the book comes from the fact that the Dallas Library owns one of her books. Materials and techniques used to create this intriguing book include: laser printing on paper, metallic overprinting, ink/handwritten script, hand printed acetate cover, and cotton string with beads The book is housed in a hand sewn black mesh polyester bag. The printing on the cover is as a result of 5 layers of handwritten reassembled text from John Cage’s Book “M” then printed in reverse. The end image is the chance markings of the spaces left in between the letters  The pages of the book have black, white and silver strips of images resembling film reels with cryptic handwritten notes along their bottom edges. Signed and dated on the last two pages. In fine condition. Measures 5.5 x 7 inches. Unpaginated. ARTISTSB/072419.

Item #33513

Price: $950.00