"Bound in an edition of 200 books, with a deluxe edition of 10 books, numbered and signed."--Colophon. "Text set in Baskerville, Gill Sans Light, and Stymie, with Adobe InDesign in the Fall/Winter of 2016/17. Offset printed on the Heidelberg GTO by Woody Leslie in the depths of winter 2017, at the Center for Book, Paper, & Print, Columbia College Chicago. The paper is Mohawk Superfine Softwhite Eggsheel 70lb text, with sweet pea green bookcloth, and electric eggplant endbands."--Colophon. "This book was made possible with generous grants from the Albert P. Weisman Award and the Caxton Club of Chicago."--Acknowlegdements. Library copy is 4/10 and signed by the artist. IaU
Summary:
"Words & Vegetables is an editioned artist's book that explores the nature of memory through a series of autobiographical micro-memoirs, and poetic typographical constructions. The book itself reflects the growing of a garden, with four sections representing the four seasons of the year. Each season thematically groups four types of written works, known as Crops, which are cultivated throughout the book: Memoiries (poetic memories about words or vegetables); Languegetables (one-word poems rooting vegetables in language, and vice versa); Vegetables (giant-font iterations of veggies that draw attention to the physicality of words); and WeedWords (illustrative veggo-verbal growths). Through the progression of these pieces, the book draws strong parallels between words and vegetables as the same thing--entities grown, tended to, and consumed by humans."--Artist's website (viewed August 11, 2017) http://www.woodyleslie.com/work/wordsandveg.html
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1000386951
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.