Books from the exhibition
Exhibition Sponsors
Bartkowiak's Best: Book Art from the Hamburg Archives
In the SFCB Gallery Jan 26-Apr 27, 2007
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Dorothy Lamour's Life as a Phrase Book The Wayzgoose Press; Katoomba, Australia; 2006 Author: Noëlle Janaczewska Illustrator/Artist: Mike Hudson Printer: Mike Hudson and Jadwiga Jarvis Binder: Mike Hudson and Jadwiga Jarvis Contact: wayzgoose@pacific.com.au Bound as a concertina, the five meters of text and illustrations consist of 11 triple-gate folded pages, with color linocuts and hand illumination. Set in numerous sans serif types and printed on a Western proof press on Magnani Incisioni paper. Edition of 30. Dorothy Lamour's Life as a Phrase Book is one in a trilogy of stage plays inspired by Hollywood heroines of the 1930's-1950's. In this play, the glamour girl made famous by the "road movies" in which she co-starred with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, finds herself in a poem instead of a movie and marooned in a dingy Sydney hotel. Dorothy's miscasting leads to reflection and soul-searching. "In order to maintain the spirit of a performance," says Mike Hudson "we gave the book a theatrical setting; the hotel room, which appears on every page, is its 'stage' onto which various scenarios (suggested by the text but not a literal depiction thereof) are introduced." | |||
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