Gifts from Paul ’60 and
Helen ’62 Anbinder
Several of the books and prints featured in “Wake the Form” were donated by Paul ’60 and Helen ’62 Anbinder. Samples from their collection on display represent only selected highlights from their many gifts to Cornell University Library and the Johnson Museum of Art. The Anbinders’ gifts have come from their personal collection of fine press books, artists’ books, catalogs, and significant limited editions. Books from their collection illustrate an ongoing dedication to careful presswork and high standards of workmanship and manufacturing. Many of the published books donated by the Anbinders include original lithographs, etchings, or photographs, or offer beautifully rendered collaborations between artists and literary figures of note. Taken as a whole, their donation demonstrates how multiple printers, publishers, and illustrators have continued to produce finely crafted books into the twenty-first century, just as other artists represented in this exhibition have stretched the definition and the shape of the “book” into a malleable form of artistic expression.
Assemblage, Environments & Happenings
Text and design by Allan Kaprow. With a selection of scenarios by 9 Japanese of the Gutai Group, Jean-Jacques Lebel [and others]. Scenarios selected complement those published in M. Kirby's Happenings, an illustrated anthology, in 1965.
Homme qui Plantait des Arbres
English & French. Designed, set in Monotype Garamond, and printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler, with five photogravures printed by Jon Goodman. Limited edition of 300 copies, signed by the artist. Hand-bound in mulberry bark and leather by Carol Joyce, and issued in slipcase.
This is Not a Book
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the Gates: Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005
Includes sample of the fabric used to make the gates.
Slaves of Christo
1-125 of this book are signed by the authors and hung with genuine Gates cloth samples; 126-500 have stand-in orange felt square. This work chronicles two art school girls from Philadelphia during their work experience with Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "Gates" erection in Central Park in February, 2005.
Manhattan Manners
One thousand copies privately printed under the direction of W.B. Putnam. This stream of consciousness fiction depicting life in 1930s New York was reproduced from hand-lettered printing with line-drawing illustrations. Inscribed to Paul Anbinder by the artist.