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Library for the artist's book, Sydney Australia

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Designer, concept: Peter Malutzki
Letterpress printer: Peter Malutzki
Categories: Bookwork / Altered Books, Letterpress Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works, Small Press Books

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Reference no.:L/Ket.I-Mal.P/97-06/03.01 Place/Shelf:3AL

Book title: Name
Year made: 2003
Place made: Germany
Original: Yes
Edition:
(No. in Edition)
40
(30)
Dimensions: 125 x 200
Binder: bound by Ricarda Rau
Physical description: cloth case binding, hard cover
Medium: text
Further information:
"The volume contains 2388 names of real and fictitious persons. They were printed onto original spreads of the New York phone book (Manhattan Verizon White Pages), which themselves include thousands of names." (p. 192)
"On most of the pages, additional names have been overprinted, each a single word, twelve to a page, in a large red type.These names also run from A to Z, starting with Abælard, and ending with Zweig... we know the names but not the people—many ... evoke something or someone most of us would recognize: Aphrodite, Coleridge, Guggenheim ..." (p. 93) (from the catalogue)

Designer, concept: Peter Malutzki
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Letterpress printer: Peter Malutzki
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