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Tangential
Title
Tangential.
Publication
Red Cliff, Colorado : Helen Hiebert Studio, 2017.
Physical Description
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Local Notes
Birren copy is #2.
Notes
Edition of 30 issued in case; numbered and signed by the artist.
"In geometry, the inscribed sphere or insphere of a convex polyhedron is a sphere that is contained within the polyhedron and tangent to each of the polyhedron's faces."
"Helen Hiebert created all of the papers in this book using 100% cotton rag fiber: the cover and end sheets feature a pulp stenciling technique; the rest of the pages are double-sided. The text was printed by Tom Leech at the Press at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico from polymer plates made by Boxcar Press. The typeface is Dante. The geometric shapes were hand cut and scored. All stitching was done by hand. Claudia Cohen bound and boxed the book. Tangential was designed and produced at Helen Hiebert Studio in Red Cliff, Colorado"--Colophon.
Summary
Artists book. Five polyhedra are described and each is represented in a two-dimensional hand stitched illustration and in a cut-out which can be assembled into three dimensions: "I built the basic polyhedra, or platonic solids, into the pages of the book ... Each form lies flat on the page (like an architectural floor plan) with visible cut and score lines. The shapes can be lifted from the page (but not removed) and folded to create each polyhedra. The text is adapted from Euclid's Elements ... The basic text is letterpress printed, and I hand stitched the name and a flat rendering of each three-dimensional shape"--Helen Hiebert http://helenhiebertstudio.com/products/tangential.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 20, 2017
Contents
Tetrahedron
Cube
Octahedron
Dodecahedron
Icosahedron.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Specimens.
Limitation statements (Printing)
Artists' books - Colorado - Red Cliff - 2015.
Letterpress printing.
Limitation statements (Printing) - Colorado - 21st century.
Also listed under
Helen Hiebert Studio, publisher.
Press of the Palace of Governors, printer.
Faber Birren Collection (Yale University)
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