Transatlantic Balderdash

Transatlantic Balderdash is a series of cards, not unlike flash cards, that feature the ‘big words’ used in Errors of the Amanuensis. The 25 words, from admonish to ultracrepidarian, are printed using a random selection from the over 3,000 type fonts that were available for KaKeART to use during their residency at the Hessisches Landesmuseum fur Industriekultur in Darmstadt, Germany. The cards were shown to a group of Germans and Americans, asking each group to define the word. On the back of each card are their responses and the correct definitions. Letterpress and digitally printed, housed in a handmade portfolio.

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University of Delaware, Yale University, Vassar College Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Otis College of Art & Design, Indiana University, James Madison University, University of Michigan, Claremont Colleges, Scripps College Campus, New York Public Library, Swarthmore College, Library of Congress, Bucknell University, University of Miami, University of Colorado (Boulder)

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Metadata

Title:

Transatlantic Balderdash

Date of publication:

2010

Place of publication:

Rosendale, NY

Publisher:

Women's Studio Workshop

Subjects:

Vocabulary, Word games

ISBN:

1893125467

Dimensions:

16 x 31 cm.

Number in edition:

25

Paging:

[25] cards

Printing method:

Letterpress, digital, screen print

Binding:

Portfolio

Signature:

Signed by artists

Printer:

Ann E. Kalmbach

Binder:

Tatana Kellner

Other notes:

Printed at the Druckmuseum/Haus fur Industriekultur (Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt); KaKeArt--Title page verso