Books from the exhibition
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Bartkowiak's Best: Book Art from the Hamburg Archives
In the SFCB Gallery Jan 26-Apr 27, 2007
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Wastepaper Edition Dieter Wagner; Berlin, Germany; 1984 Author: Wolfgang Nieblich Illustrator/Artist: Dieter Wagner Printer: Dieter Wagner Binder: Reinhart & Wasser, Berlin Contact: info@forumbookart.de Japanese binding, 156 pages. Hand set in Gill, various wood types and reversed linotype lines, and printed on wastepaper. Edition of 250. Wolfgang Nieblich's text describes the glory and misery of a fictitious bibliophilic passion for dummies, and can be understood as a parody of market mechanisms. The inventive typography, which goes against all convention, turns the book into a sensory experience. Dieter Wagner (1941-2004) lived since the 1960's in Berlin. With his more than 30 books and broadsides, dating primarily from the 1980's, he created a milestone in experimental book design. He printed diverse texts (Japanese short stories, both unpublished and classic German authors, text collages from gun catalogs, graffiti) — always with highly original typography. Wagner's last work appeared in 1989. | |||
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