The Care and Traning of Your Pet R̶o̶c̶k̶ Book
Gaynell’s Blog Post #3 Despite the title indicating that my Pet Book is an alphabet book, it is not highlighting the alphabet in an instructive way, so I would hesitate to classify it as an abcedaria[1]. The connection to ABCs is structural as the animals are included based on the first letters of their common … Read more
Maybe my understanding of what a book is has simply been limited by the language I’ve been given about books. Or maybe, Hicks didn’t set out to create a book at all, but instead, an art installation that plays with elements of words, images, and our own perceptions to make a statement. This blog post … Read more
Pet Blog Post #3: Word and Image Illustrations appear frequently throughout Winnie-The-Pooh. On average, it seems illustrations are present on about every other page, and a reader will not encounter more than two pages of full text before seeing the next illustration. The illustrations work with the text and take on a more narrative role, … Read more
As we discussed in class, your third post is more open ended than the first two. Having built an impressive conceptual lexicon of critical and technical terms, it is now time to consider the dynamics of image and word within your pet picture book. I want you to let your creativity run free and explore … Read more
Mise En Page The photo above shows a fairly standard set of pages from this book of hours. Although I think the pages are broadly readable, at least compared with many religious texts we have seen, I would say that the intricacy of the pages and the visual awe they were intended to inspire ultimately … Read more
Death Masks, Deneberg (1997) There are 21 poems in this book. Each is positioned on the verso, the left side. Some poems are as few as four lines of text grouped into a single column paragraph. There is a huge amount of bottom margin as well as left side. The text is grouped in the … Read more
The 12 Articles is an artbook, created on handmade torn cloth paper. The text appears to be applied to the paper with a letterpress. The font type used in “The 12 Articles” is Bodoni, which is a serif typeface that originated in the 18th century. This font style is considered modern and is often used … Read more
In Common Threads, each unnumbered page is roughly 24.1 cm l x 17.8 cm w with one inch inner margins that are marked by the distinct, red line that is found in most traditional composition notebooks. The upper margin is also one inch. I’m not sure if I would describe this text as having a … Read more
Greg’s Second Blog Post October 17, 2023 Edgar Allan Poe was author of the poem in my pet book. Gustave Dore´ illustrated the poem and put together the book many years after the death of Poe. I believe the illustration above depicts both Poe and Dore´, with other elements to be discussed at a later … Read more