Transatlantic balderdash
By: Ann Kalmbach and Tatana Kellner
Contributors: Kellner, Tana; Women's Studio Workshop; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Women's Studio Workshop
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rosendale, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
ISBN-13: 9781893125469
Subjects: Artists' books; Vocabulary; Word games
Notes: "Transatlantic Balderdash is a series of cards, not unlike flash cards, that feature the 'big words' used in Errors of the Amanuensis. The 25 words, from admonish to ultracrepidarian, are printed using a random selection from the over 3,000 type fonts available for KakeArt to use during their residency at the Hessischisse Landes Museum fur Industrie und Kultur in Darmstadt, Germany. The cards were shown to a group of Germans and Americans asking each group to define the word. On the back of each card are their responses and the correct definitions."--Women's Studio Workshop website, http://www.wsworkshop.org/ , viewed October 13, 2010.

"... conceived as a companion piece for "Errors of the Amanuensis or the Calumny of the Secretary: a Binary Tale." It was designed and letterpress printed during a month long residency at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Haus für Industriekultur in Darmstadt, Germany. Digital and silkscreen printing was completed at Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY."--Card 1.

Housed in handmade portfolio. Cards are printed on both sides.

Issued in an edition of 25.

LC copy is no. 17 of 25, signed by the authors.

Description and digital images of this object available on the Women's Studio Workshop Archive website: http://wsworkshop.org/archive_item.php?ID=3139