Coffin ; - Full Blown [Coffin : Time Piece, Pink Rose]
  • artists' book
  • leatherette covers
  • photocopy / xeroxed
  • comb bound
  • black-and-white
  • 36.4 x 24 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size 3
  • signed and numbered

Coffin ; - Full Blown [Coffin : Time Piece, Pink Rose]

[Series I]

Barbara T. Smith

Coffin ; - Full Blown [Coffin : Time Piece, Pink Rose]

description

Artist's book by Barbara Smith produced between 1965 and 1966 featuring xeroxed images of a rose and a pair of hands printed on pink paper housed in clear plastic sleeves, comb bound, with embossed black leatherette covers in an edition of 3. Part of series I of Smith's Coffin series which was made between 1965 and 1967 and which totaled twenty-five handmade and self-published artist's books produced with a Xerox 914 copy machine that the artist leased and experimented with. A copy of this publication is held by the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2013.M.23).

references

"Barbara T. Smith : Proof" by Barbara T. Smith, Jenelle Porter, Pietro Rigolo, Gloria Sutton, Catherine Taft. Los Angeles / New York, CA / NY : Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2024, pp. 170.
$20,000.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Titled, signed and numbered in blue pen, 1/3, and inscribed "For Stanley + Elise." Yellowing and light foxing of endpapers with some light rippling. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Light bumping of top left corner of verso.
[Object # 38502]