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(alphabetized by first name)

Barb Tetenbaum
CJ Grossman
Donald Anderson
Ed Colker
James Todd
John Risseeuw
Karen Hanmer
Lynn Sures
Mary Hark
Robin Price
Steve Prince

 

 

Barb Tetenbaum

Portland, Oregon

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Gymnopaedia #4 ; A Piece for Four Voices

letterpress printing on mouldmade paper, case binding

11 x 7 closed; 11 x 14 open

edition of 30

© 2005

$340 (this edition is almost sold out)

Four voices work together in this ’excerpt’ to play out a composition. Two voices have a back-and-forth libretto while a third voice is happily distracting themselves. Musical directions are given throughout.

Text by Barb Tetenbaum, images by Barb Tetenbaum. Visual score, depressing libretto, multiple voices.

Hand-set type, printer’s rule, bell wire, sheet magnet and antique printer’s cuts were printed letterpress. The binding is a single section in a German Case binding.

Barb Tetenbaum is an artist and musician who has been publishing limited edition artist books since 1979 under the imprint of Triangular Press. She is currently Professor and Department Head of Book Arts at Oregon College of Art and Craft.

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