The Waste Maker: 1926 - 1961
Images/graphics: Bern Porter
Categories: Bookwork / Image-graphic Books, Multiples, Offset Books, Verbo-visual Books
Reference no.:NL/Por.B/72.00 Place/Shelf:3GL
| Book title: | The Waste Maker: 1926 - 1961 |
| Published by: | Abyss Publications |
| Year made: | 1972 |
| Place made: | USA |
| Original: | Yes |
| Dimensions: | 140 x 212 |
| Binder: | commercial binding |
| Physical description: | soft cover, 'perfect' binding |
| Medium: | text and image collage |
| Further information: | |
| "Bern Porter is a 20th century Walt Whitman, a sometime printer and publisher, a long-time servant of both U.S. letters and his own very American muse. 'The Wastemaker' represents as assiduous discovery of America writ large in the smallest 'found' details, as Porter collects native waste into artlessly designed pages, not only reflecting his own love and bitterness, but exposing cultural insights and perspectives that are indigenously true. As haste makes waste, so patient composition, by contrast, makes art of waste; and this book does 'junk art' before anyone could conceive of art, or even insight, in garbage." Richard Kostelanetz | |
| Images/graphics: | Bern Porter () |
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