VF as New, scarce Limited Edition, 500 copies. Nexus Press 1986, Atlanta, GA, hand sewn hardcover, offset color multi-colors +metallic silver,artist book.[gcb1]<\/p>\n
Ruth Laxson’s faux notebook has the look and feel of a children’s book but is actually a transformation of philosophy and metaphysics into offset printing. Ruth Laxson is an Atlanta-based artist. Her artists’ books use a variety of techniques such as letterpress, etching, offset, collage and drawing.<\/p>\n
Ruth Knight Laxson (July 16, 1924 \u2013 June 1, 2019) Laxson’s books merge images with often fragmented texts that may be handwritten or typeset.Inspired by the Surrealists, she playfully pushed language outside its ordinary meanings. The books may also include collaged or sewn-in elements. Michael Fallon writes, “Her books follow their own logic. Images and texts move in spirals, flow into starbursts and tangles, run erratically across page-spreads, fade, blur, and break up. There are twisting lines of type, plentiful arrows pointing this way and that, words split asunder and reshaped into images (a bird, a train, a house). There are dingbats and other iconograms worked in with their own rationale.”
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