Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Long, Lois, 1918-2005.
2. Russell, John, 1919-2008.

Description

1. [40] p. : ill. (some col.); 13 cm. +

Alternative title

1. Mud book, how to make pies and cakes.

Subject

1. Cage, John
2. Long, Lois, 1918-2005
3. Mud > Pictorial works
4. Mud in art

Genre/Form

1. Artists' books – United States.

Call number

1. Spencer Coll. Amer. 1983 92-129

Note

1. 554 copies printed (screenprinted throughout, hand-pulled) by Hiroshi Kawanishi, Takeshi Shimada, and Kenjiro Nonaka of Simca Print Artists, Japan, including 54 artists' proof copies.
2. "A facsimile of a book conceived ... in the late '50s ... John Cage was inspired to write a text which Lois Long cut to a length she could manage to illustrate. Working ... with gouache and some collage, she made a dummy ... It is this dummy that has been reproduced with such infinite care"--Print collectors' newsletter, v. 15, no. 1 (Mar.-Apr. 1984), p. 27.
3. Consists of a strip formed from 19 whole sheets (13 x 25 cm.) overlapping and laminated to 18 whole and 2 half sheets (13 x 13 cm.) and folded accordion-style to form 18 double-thickness double leaves with single leaves at beginning and end.
4. Issued with a leaflet containing "A note on 'Mud book'" by John Russell and the colophon.
5. 29 pages contain ill. of various sizes (2 are double-page) and/or text reproduced from ms., 8 contain text only (some with reproductions of mud stains), 3 are blank. As many as sixty-one screens were used; cf. Print collectors' newsletter. Printer's blind stamp on t.p.
6. Issued unbound, in khaki cloth covers with bone clasps, in a wooden box with sliding top (15 x 15 x 4 cm.).

Indexed in (note)

1. MOMA. American prints, 1960-1985

Author

1. Cage, John.

Title

1. Mud book / by John Cage and Lois Long.

Imprint

1. New York : Callaway Editions ; London : David Grob Editions, 1983.

Local note

1. No. 139/500; signed on t.p. in pencil by the author and the artist.

Indexed in:

1. MOMA. American prints, 1960-1985, p. 238

Added author

1. Long, Lois, 1918-2005. Illustrator
2. Russell, John, 1919-2008.

LCCN

1. 83071132

ISBN

1. 0935112081

Research call number

1. Spencer Coll. Amer. 1983 92-129