The purification of Fagus sylvatica var pendula
By: Paul Etienne Lincoln.
Contributors: Queens Museum of Art.; Coracle Press.; Granary Books (Firm); Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Coracle; Granary
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Tipperary (Ireland)]; [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Performance art -- New York (State) -- New York.; European beech -- New York (State) -- New York.; Historic trees -- New York (State) -- New York.; Trees -- Symbolic aspects -- New York (State) -- New York.; Sacred groves -- New York (State) -- New York.; Creosote.
Notes: Performance in Weeping Beech Tree Park in Queens, N.Y., on June 15, 2001, involving the stump of the oldest weeping beech in the U.S. and its seven descendants, which encircle it. A figure clad in a beech-leaf cloak produced distilled wood creosote with a still and silicon tubing connecting the seven living trees, each tree named for one of the Pleiades.

"Photographs by Janette Beckman, Paul Etienne Lincoln" -- Acknowledgments, at end.

"A 16mm film documented the day's events" -- P. 12.

Places of publication from colophon.

"The Purification of Fagus sylvatica var pendula was produced and first exhibited for the exhibition 'Crossing the Line,' organized by The Queens Museum of Art, June 24 - October 7, 2001" -- P. [1], at end.

"An edition of six hundred copies printed in England by Axminster Printing Company and casebound by Stuart Settle. Sixty copies enclose a laser printed photograph of the crystal jacket and and beechnut, signed and numbered by the artist; the remaining books are numbered sixty-one to six hundred, the first forty of which are artist copies" -- Colophon.

Endpapers show the constellation of Pleiades.

LC has copy no. 27, signed by the artist.