Coffin ; - Full Blown
  • 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

Barbara T. Smith

Coffin ; - Full Blown

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. This book is part of Smith's Coffin series 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 similar publication, "Coffin : Time Piece, Pink Rose," 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]