Airborn

Inspired by the artist’s visit to China and Japan, Airborn responds to traditional forms in personal ways. A collaboration with poet Melinda Kennedy, text and imagery lyrically describe the five elements of our world. Each print represents an element, and the book is organized to visually take flight, progressing from the earth to the air. Directions by sculptor/kit artist Tal Streeter describe how to string and fly the five pages/kites.

Out of print.

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Holdings

Virginia Commonwealth University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Yale University, University of Kentucky, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Brown University, Washington University (St. Louis), Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Wheaton College, Messiah College, Temple University, Princeton University, Columbia College (Chicago), Vassar College Library, Florida Atlantic University, Maryland Institute College of Art, University of Houston, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis-IUPUI, Indiana University, University of Michigan, Swarthmore College, Lafayette College, Library of Congress, University of Southern California, Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Getty Research Institute for History of Art & Humanities

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Metadata

Title:

Airborn

Other titles:

Ten thousand things, 10 thousand things

Other Contributors:

Melinda Kennedy

Date of publication:

1994

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

Other publishing info:

Mossybrook Press, High Falls, NY

Subjects:

Kites

Dimensions:

in box, 35 x 28 x 3 cm.

Number in edition:

100 and 20 artists' proofs

Paging:

5 kites

Paper:

Japanese Kozo

Printing method:

Relief etching, collograph, chine colle, letterpress, photocopy

Typeface:

Helvetica

Binding:

Clamshell Box

Funding source:

Women's Studio Workshop

Signature:

Signed by the artist

Writer:

Melinda Kennedy

Printer:

Ann M. Kresge

Binder:

Ann M. Kresge

Other notes:

Leaf with poem "Ten thousand things" mounted on p. [2] of cover.