We will be debuting a significant number of new works, notably by Timothy Ely, Helen Heibert, Carolyn Trant, and others.
If you are unable to attend…or just love booth tour videos…we will be posting our CA booth tour as soon as it is set up on our channel (with the others).
We have passes available as needed and, as always, let us know if and when we can be of assistance.
As promised, here is a selection of materials we are bringing to Boston, much of which is recent acquisitions and new items. Content is arranged by sections: Primary Source [Archive] Collections; Artist’s Books & Fine Press; Science, Technology, and Historical Medicine; Ephemera; and Esoterica. The catalogs, including the previously released OCCULT short list can be found here: Boston preview list(s)
Otherwise, we will see you on Friday, October 28th, 5:00-9:00pm! We have passes for the Friday night preview night, if you would like to attend, please get in touch.
The book in its wonderful camel on wheels home #dada
In honor of the 100th birthday of the emergence of the Dada movement, we are sharing the unique artist book created by Rolf Lock embodying Hugo Ball’s Karawane. In full leather boards, the exquisite hand illustration and lettering was executed on sandpaper…because…it was. It is housed, as one would expect, in an olive wood camel, the book at rest forming its hump…because…it is.
The text of the Ball’s poem, written in 1916, is as follows:
