A play on color
Subtitle: interaction of color in letterpress
By: by Suzanne Powney
Contributors: Albers, Josef; BlackDog Letterpress; Crane (Firm)
Publisher: BlackDog Letterpress
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Starkville, Mississippi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Color printing; Letterpress printing; Artists' books
Notes: Issued in a cloth-covered slipcase.

"Designed and printed by Suzanne Powney of BlackDog Letterpress in the spring of 2017. ... Color images are the artists' interpretation of Josef Albers' Interacition of Color. Theis edition of 48 was printed on Cranes Lettra with Caslon Oldstyle on a Vandercook 4T in Starkville, Mississippi."--Colophon.

"Suzanne Powney is a book artist and letterpress printer, founder of BlackDog Letterpress in 2001. She learned her craft from master printers who ran the print shop at the Museum of Printing History in Houston, Texas. She went on to get her MFA in Graphic Communications from the University of Houston while also working as a lecturer teaching letterpress to the undergraduates. She feels with the leaps in technology and the speed of results of on demand printing, there lies a tactile disconnect that she has found in the art printing wood and metal type. She is always investigating the traditional craft of letterpress and book arts as she works in the current technological driven graphic design world. Her work is about tactility and why we are drawn to intimate objects, through images and words"--BlackDog Letterpress website, viewed August 25, 2017.

Artist's statement: "The book A play on color: interaction of color in letterpress is an investigation of letterpress prints, in honor of Josef Albers' book Interaction of color. The images are directly inspired and reinterpreted based on the pages of the 50th anniversary edition and from viewing the original screen prints. The play of color and perception are a beautiful treatise on color theory. The artist added text as commentary as the book unfolds to reveal the composition in color"--Vamp and Tramp Booksellers website, viewed August 25, 2017.

Rare Book copy: No. 4; signed by the artist.