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03153aam a2200481Ii 4500 001 AAFEE406CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 210526s2013 meu 000 0 eng d 035 $a (OCoLC)1252780526 040 $a NUI $b eng $e rda $c NUI $d SILO 100 1 $a Owen, Jan, $d 1947- $e book artist. 245 10 $a Prayer palimpsest / $c Jan Owen 260 $a [Belfast, Maine] : $b [Jan Owen], $c 2013. 300 $a 26 [that is, 44] unnumbered pages ; $c 30 x 13 cm + $e 1 booklet ([8] pages ; 29 x 12 cm) 563 $a Hand-sewn binding by Jan Owen, in yellow and coral painted Hollytex wrapper over white Hollytext with visible title, artist's name, and date; housed in a white card stock folder; all laid in a painted yellow slipcase with hand-lettered labels. $5 IaU 520 $a "While palimpsest usually refers to a piece of vellum that has had the original writing on it scraped off to be re-used, a secondary definition of palimpsest is "something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface." Ms. Owen's dense lettering in a variety of calligraphic styles and sizes, with several repetitions of text certainly fits. ... The reader / viewer is left with the impression that prayers - no matter who wrote them - have a commonality, and that is giving thanks." --Vendor's description. 500 $a Cover title. 500 $a "A collection of layered prayers and poems." 500 $a Medium: Acrylics and black sumi ink, on Hollytex polyester (a transculscent material). 500 $a Artist's book, unique, on plain and painted Hollytex polyester, in acrylics and black sumi, signed and dated by the artist, Jan Owen, on the front wrapper. 500 $a Includes text and quotes by various writers and poets: Robert Louis Stevenson, Meister Eckhart, e.e. cummings, Stuart Kestenbaum, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Iris Murdoch, George Herbert, Walt Whitman, William Blake, Pierre Pradervand, Emily Dickinson. Psalms. 500 $a Each page completely covered in hand-lettered text, except center page spread, on a hand-lettered smaller sheet. 500 $a Accompanying booklet is a printed version of the calligraphic text. $5 IaU 650 0 $a Artists' books $z Belfast $z Belfast $y 21st century $v Specimens. 650 0 $a Calligraphy $z Belfast $z Belfast $y 21st century $v Specimens. 650 0 $a Paper art $z Belfast $z Belfast $y 21st century $v Specimens. 650 0 $a Prayer in literature. 650 0 $a Palimpsests $y 21st century $v In art. 650 0 $a Aphorisms and apothegms. 650 0 $a Authors $v Quotations. 650 7 $a Artists' books. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00817660 650 7 $a Calligraphy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00844368 650 7 $a Paper art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01052398 655 7 $a Specimens. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423861 655 7 $a Calligraphy (visual works) $2 aat 655 7 $a Sumi (ink) $2 aat 655 7 $a Acrylic paint $2 aat 655 7 $a Slipcases $2 aat 655 7 $a Artists' books. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317030057.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AAFEE406CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search