The kashash & the archivist
Contributors: Eco, Umberto
Publisher: M. Ray
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, Ala
Language: eng
Subjects: Pigeons; Artists' books; Specimens
Other titles: 24514The kashash and the archivist
Notes: Edition of 15 copies.

Handset type, reduction linoleum, photopolymer plate, embossed, case bound.

"This book was released into the sky during the winter of 2010 (with the hope that it found a good place to roost). The type is handset Bembo, the illustrations were created with linoleum and photopolymer plates on Arches Text Wove paper. Text, design, binding and printing by Michelle Ray in Tuscaloosa, AL"--Colophon.

"Umberto Eco states that, "We like lists because we don't want to die." Collections physically and temporally expand the space we occupy in this world; they reinforce our existence. "The kashash & the archivist" expores the compulsions of collecting through the microcosm of pigeon wars (also know [sic] as kash al-hamam or kashash hamam), an underground sport obsessed with living collections"--M. Ray.

15 signed, numbered copies.

Rare Book copy: No. 3.