See, Say, Bone, Lessons from French

King, Susan and Jean Gabriel Adloff.

Verlag: [ Los Angelesw:] Paradise Press, 1988

Beschreibung

I became fascinated with the way a foreign language is taught to beginning students. By my second French lesson I was writing down directions, phrases used by the instructor, or short sections of the text, Langue et langage, 4e edition, that leapt off the page as interesting examples of a culture other than my own. These notes sparked a series of short prose pieces which appear hereÉI wanted a visual element that was not an illustration: my beginnerÕs essay corrected in French handwriting gave me an element that is both abstract and literal. What started out as a simple project became more complicated as Dr. Jean Adloff, my French instructor and also a writer, greed to collaborate,Ó (colophon). 7 x 5 in. unpaginated. Main text in French printed on paper made by David Carruthers at La papeterie St-Armand in Montreal. Interspersed with Kozo overlay leaves with an English translation and manuscript ÒcorrectionsÓ to the text by Jean Gabriel Adloff. Printed by Susan King in American Garamond and Twentieth Century. Hand-bound in Coptic style by Shelley Hoyt. Decorative paper (made at the Paradise Press) over boards. Manuscript label. A fine copy of a scarce book. One of 125 copies inscribed by Susan King on the colophon. Susan King began printing in 1975 at the WomenÕs Graphic Center at the WomanÕs Building in Los Angeles. King and Judy Chicago had helped establish the WomanÕs Building, where King studied with Sheila de Bretteville and Helen Alm, and took classes with Bonnie Carpenter, Kathleen Walkup, and Frances Butler. She began using the Paradise Press imprint in 1978 with the publication of Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Bride, her first letterpress book, in 1978. In 1980, King, Kitty Maryatt, Marion Baker, and Bonnie Thompson Norman founded the Women of Letters , a letterpress printing organization for women, in Los Angeles. KingÕs other books include Women and Cars (1983), which includes quotes from women drivers ranging from Gertrude Stein to Nancy Drew, and I Dream Atget (1997), which reflects on KingÕs interest in pictorialism and the work of French photographer Eug ne Atget. King now lives in Kentucky, where she continues her work in book arts, photography, and textile art. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17371

Bibliografische Details

Titel: See, Say, Bone, Lessons from French

Verlag: [ Los Angelesw:] Paradise Press, 1988

Einband: Hardcover