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The color system : schemes for life enhancement
Title
The color system : schemes for life enhancement / Jenny Yoshida Park & Bianca Stone.
Publication
[San Diego, California] : Brighton Press : & Evidence of the Hand, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Local Notes
Arts Library Special Collections: AOB has copy number 20. Signed by the artists.
Notes
"The color system : schemes for life enhancement (or Because I love you I can come apart) was conceived by artist Jenny Hoshida Park, who composed the color names and systems and created 107 unique colors in response to thirteen found, vintage photographs. It is framed as a book of color swatches one might find at a paint or interior design shop, where each color name evokes paradisical vacations or quaint Americana. Poet Bianca Stone was then invited to collaborate, which led to the interruption of the pages with the rough draft of her poem, "Because I love you I can come apart" and prose poems in the form of endnotes responding to each of Yoshida Park's color systems. The color swatches were cut from hand painted paste papers. The photographs were digitally altered and printed with archival pigment inks on Red River Polar Gloss Metallic paper. Text was set in Futura and Adobe Jenson and printed letterpress by Nelle Martin on Rives BFK. Poem excerpts were typed on a 1947 Remington Noiseless Model 7 typewriter onto hand ruled strips of translucent Cave paper. Sonja Jones bound the books in Maharam cloth and made the enclosures. ... copublished by Brighton Press and Evidence of the Hand, in a limited edition of 45 signed and numbered copies with four additional artist's proofs, in 2019"--Colophon.
Edition of 45 signed and numbered copies.
Variant and related titles
Colophon title: Color system : schemes for life enhancement (or Because I love you I can come apart)
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2020
Contents
No. 1. Now that's what I call beige!
No. 2. Pleasing in a Eurocentric way
No. 3. Slumming it : drifter debonaire
No. 4. Distracting yourself from emptiness
No. 5. Our terrifying natural world
No. 6. Prideful, loving anger is my only salvation
No. 7. Welcome back to your lonely home
No. 8. Add a safe amount of ethnic feel to your life
No. 9. These colors have been endorsed by A-list celebrities
No. 10. Folksy beyond repair
No. 11. Your bewildering, nightmarish dreams
No. 12. A fistful of patriotism
No. 13. A lethal dose of scientific method.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Artists' books - California.
American poetry - 21st century.
digital prints.
swatches.
manipulated photographs.
Letterpress printing.
folded books.
artists' books (books)
poetry.
prose poems.
Artists' books.
Humor.
Poetry.
Prose poems.
Artists' books.
Poetry.
Prose poems.
Accordion fold format (Binding)
Printed paper labels (Binding)
Artists' books - California - San Diego.
Artists' books - 2019.
Paste papers (Paper)
Typefaces (Type evidence) - Futura.
Typefaces (Type evidence) - Jenson (Adobe)
Also listed under
Brighton Press, publisher.
Evidence of the Hand, publisher.
BFK Rives (Firm), papermaker.
Cave Paper (Firm), papermaker.
Red River Paper (Firm), papermaker.
Maharam (Firm)
Yale University. Arts of the Book Collection.
Faber Birren Collection (Yale University)
United States California San Diego,
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