IT IS ALMOST THAT - RARE SIGNED SIGLIO LIMITED EDITION BOX SET (No 3 OF 85)CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE ON PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE
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IT IS ALMOST THAT - RARE SIGNED SIGLIO LIMITED EDITION BOX SET (No 3 OF 85). Tender Buttonsand. Each is a window into the artist’s work, and together they weave an thought-provoking web of connections, from the “lost” pages of Eleanor Antin’s alter-ego Anitova to Erica Van Horn’s notations of her life in Ireland. (E0) From the publisher's website: Inspired by the Great Bear pamphlets produced by Something Else Press in the 1960s, Siglio offered ten artists (whose work also appears in the book It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists and Writers ) a simple, open space for play and experimentation. Some relate directly to their contributions in the collection, such as Molly Springfield’s drawn and copied notes for “Translation,” or the complete text of House of Dust by Alison Knowles to accompany the artifactual images in the book. Others are different pieces altogether such as Helen Kim’s imitation of the program for a boy’s boxing match with portraits of the children, or details from Jane Hammond’s paintings of riddles, glyphs and rebuses. Each is a window into the artist’s work, and together they weave an thought-provoking web of connections, from the “lost” pages of Eleanor Antin’s alter-ego Anitova to Erica Van Horn’s notations of her life in Ireland. Susan Hiller’s booklet includes a poster with a grid of photographs of psychics. Suzanne Treister’s contribution is comprised of four separate alchemical diagrams, and Ann Hamilton’s “Time” is a single broadside of a concordance using the word “time” from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Tender Buttons and Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein. The set includes ten saddle-stitched 5.5 × 8.5 inch booklets and broadsides, some in color and others in black-and-white, with dust jackets signed and numbered by each artist. Housed in a felt-lined, hinged wood box. A colophon/certificate of authenticity is included. FOUND PAGES FROM ANTINOVA’S MEMOIR by Eleanor Antin NUDE FILM by Fiona Banner TIME by Ann Hamilton INSPECTION by Jane Hammond PSYCHIC by Susan Hiller DORCHESTER BOXERS by Helen Kim A HOUSE OF DUST by Alison Knowles NOTES FOR THE TRANSLATION by Molly Springfield HEXEN II / 4 DIAGRAMS by Suzanne Treister FROM THE JOURNAL SOME NOTES ON LIVING LOCALLY by Erica Van Horn (EO)
