The Word Made Flesh
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Library Information and Colophon
Title |
The Word Made Flesh View record in CONTENTdm |
Publication |
New York: Granary Books, 1996 |
Library Call # |
PS3554.R68 W67 1996 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
23 leaves; 27x32cm |
Colophon/Notes |
Facsimile reprint of an original letterpress edition issued in 1989. |
| ColophoN | This is a facsimile reprint of copy #50 of the original letterpress edition. The quality of the wooden letters and metal type used in the original has been preserved in this version. It was shot on a Companica process camera and hand developed by Brad Freeman. The book was offset printed on a Heidelberg GTO in the summer of 1996 at SoHo Services in New York. The covers were hand printed by Johanna Drucker at Druckwerk in New Haven from polymer letterpress plates produced at SoHo Letterpress in New York. Finally, it was bound by Jill Jevne in McGregor, Minnesota. Published by Steven Clay, Granary Books, New York, in an edition of 500 copies. The Druckwerk edition was produced in winter 1988-89 at the Bow and Arrow Press in the basement of Adams House at Harvard University with the kind assistance and support of Jim Barondess and Gino Lee. In that printing it required three runs: one for the large black wooden letters which spell out the title throughout the book, one for the smaller black letters, and one for the red field. It was printed letterpress in hand-set type and the justification of the small black letters was the major challenge. That edition consisted of 50 copies, bound with rivets in metallic cover papers. |
Biography
Johanna Drucker
(1952- )
American
Johanna Drucker, born in 1952, is a scholarly author and creator of contemporary artists’ books. Through limited edition hand-made books she explores “the use of experimental typography to expand the possibilities of prose beyond the linear format of traditional presentation.”1
Drucker, who earned a Ph.D. in Ecriture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986 now works as a professor at University of California, Los Angeles. She creates many of her books under her own Druckwerk press using both letterpress and offset production techniques.2 In her book The Word Made Flesh Drucker explores the visceral character of language. The text acts as both discusses and illustrates the use of typography as tangible visual medium.
footnotes
1 Johanna Drucker. "A Chronology of Books from 1970 to 1994." Web. 4 December 2008. View website
2 Matthew G. Kirschenbaum. “Through Light and the Alphabet: An Interview with Johanna Drucker.” Web. 4 December 2008. View website
Other Books in Special Collections by this Author
Title |
Just As |
Publication |
California: J. Drucker, 1983 |
Library Call # |
PS3554.R68 J8 1983 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
20p.: ill.; 35cm |
Title |
Otherspace: Martian Ty/opography |
Publication |
Atlanta: Nexus Press; New York: Interplanetary Productions, 1992 |
Library Call # |
PS3554.R68 O84 1992 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
[4], 84, 8p.: ill. (some col.); 18cm |
Notes |
An edition of 500 copies. |
Title |
A Girl’s Life |
Publication |
New York: Granary Books: Distributed to the trade by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2002 |
Library Call # |
PS3554.R68 G57 2002 View Reed library catalog record |
Description |
1v. unpaged: col. Ill.; 26cm |
References and Links
Bernstein, Charles, Ed. Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. View Reed library catalog record
Drucker, Johanna. “A Chronology of Books from 1970 to 1994." Web. 4 December 2008. View website
Drucker, Johanna. The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination. New York, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 1995. View Reed library catalog record
Drucker, Johanna. The Century of Artists’ Books. New York: Granary Books, 1995. View Reed library catalog record
Drucker, Johanna. Dark Decade. St. Paul: Detour Press, 1995. View Reed library catalog record
Drucker, Johanna. Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing, and Visual Poetics. New York, N.Y.: Granary Books: Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 1998 .View Reed library catalog record
Drucker, Johanna. Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. View Reed library catalog record
Drucker, Johanna. The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. View Reed library catalog record
Granary Books. Web. 9 December 2007. View website
Kirschenbaum, Matthew G.. “Through Light and the Alphabet: An Interview with Johanna Drucker.” Web. 4 December 2008. View website
Wasserman, Krystyna. The Book as Art: Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. View Reed library catalog record