Tangential
Contributors: Euclid; Hiebert, Helen, 1965- papermaker; Leech, Tom, printer; Press of the Palace of Governors
Publisher: Helen Hiebert Studio
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Red Cliff, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Polyhedra in art; Polyhedra; Models; Artists' books; Specimens; Paper work
Description: Artists book. Five polyhedra are described and each is represented in a two-dimensional hand stitched illustration and in a cut-out which can be assembled into three dimensions: "I built the basic polyhedra, or platonic solids, into the pages of the book ... Each form lies flat on the page (like an architectural floor plan) with visible cut and score lines. The shapes can be lifted from the page (but not removed) and folded to create each polyhedra. The text is adapted from Euclid's Elements ... letterpress printed, and I hand stitched the name and a flat rendering of each three-dimensional shape"--Helen Hiebert http://helenhiebertstudio.com/products/tangential.
Notes: "In geometry, the inscribed sphere or insphere of a convex polyhedron is a sphere that is contained within the polyhedron and tangent to each of the polyhedron's faces."

"Helen Hiebert created all the papers in this book using 100% cotton and rag fiber ... The text was printed by Tom Leech at the Press at the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico ... Claudia Cohen bound and boxed the book"--Colophon.

Edition of 30.

Rare Book copy: No. 21; signed by the artist.
Table of contents: title: Tetrahedron; title: cube; title: octahedron; title: dodecahedron; title: icosahedron.