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www.nyartbooksfair.com

Check otu this link to the NYTimes reivew and slide show of Robert Franks work…wonderful images. There’s a space after the “r.”:

www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/arts/design/25frank.html? r=1&the&emc=th

She entered the darkened library as soon as the family retired. The floors were richly carpeted and the sounds in the room were further dampened
by the thick, velvet drapes. There were soft chairs and sofas in her path, but the moonlight from the tall windows was sufficient to see everything. The walls on three sides were solid with book shelves high up to the ceiling.
She moved quietly to her right and began sliding her fingers over the spines of the books.  Here was rich leather, smooth and gilded.  Now she felt fabric, rough and dark green.  She jumped as she came across a book with a silk covering. It almost glowed in the faint moonlight. Next to it another thick book with heavy ribs on the spine. The faint odor of the leather was almost dizzying. She gasped,  breathless, murmuring, “Ohhh.” And, pulling out the leather book, she sank down to the soft carpet and opened the book. The pages were rich with text that could be felt with the tips of her fingers when she moved her hand across the pages.  The large letters were gilded and glittered in the light. Another page offered a beautiful illustration of a lovely woman swathed in a  silken garment. “Ohhh.” she whispered, “How lovely.

OK, now, can you get that kind of response reading a book on your computer???! I don’t think so. Real books are never going to be in danger of extinction.  EVER!

Go to www.madmuseum.org and click on Slash: Paper Under the Knife to see an extraordinary show of and about paper in art.

I am on the TPAC Open Studio Tour again this year. If you are opening your studio for the tour also, add a comment to this blog and we will have a list of members whose studios are on the tour.

I am looking for the poems
where do I find them

In this salon you will learn how to make “Petal Card Pictures”. Please see the photos to get a better idea of this fun project. I will teach some basic origami models to be used, as well as dry and heat embossing techniques. You will take home finished projects as well as templates and diagrams to help you continue to make on your own.

Salon is on Sat. Sept 26, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.  Fee is $30 which includes all materials.  If interested please contact me ASAP to reserve a space.  This Salon will be held in downtown Tucson at ArtFare,  N. 6th Ave.  Details will be sent to all participants.

Origami flowers

Girl and Monkey

Thanks so much for the brilliant presentation. I enjoyed every minute.

I need some help. I’ve written a paper “Four Traditions In Artists Books” which needs a commentary. If you’re interested you can download it from http://ocotilloarts.com/fourtraditionsintro.pdf

What is this about? Some of you know I got a grant to defray costs for printing some of my books. I’m doing a show of this work here next month, which I would like to expand and take on the road. I see my work as falling into one “tradition” but by no means the only one. In the draft paper I identify and cursorily discuss others. “Cursorily” is the problem. There are more than four traditions or practices — ways of working — of course. Some universal classification isn’t the point. It’s that I would like to see a show of diverse traditions where each was laid out in a context that takes history, other traditions, similarities and significant differences into account.

I’ve written up my own part and would like to hear suggestions or get drafts from artists who identify themselves with other traditions. Perhaps together we could grow a substantial catalog of an nice show.

Charles