The illusion of physicality
By: Mary Jo Bang ; designed & printed by Ken Botnick
Contributors: Botnick, Ken, book designer, printer; Emdash (Firm)
Publisher: Emdash
Published: 2017
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Artists' books; Private press books; Specimens
Notes: Limited edition of 40 numbered and five lettered copies.

Prose poems.

"The type is Franklin Gothic ... The papers are French Speckletone, Zerkall Book, Niyodo, and Concorde Rag. The covers are Somerset Velvet with Colorplan inserts. The edition was bound by Amy Borezo at Shelter Bookworks in Orange, Massachusetts"--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 19; signed by the artist.
Table of contents: title: A model of a machine --; title: Of mannequins and building exteriors --; title: Me, a chronicle --; title: In the garden behind the master's house --; title: An anatomical study --; title: Last name first, first name last --; title: The photographer, Berlin --; title: The human figure in a dress --; title: Two nudes --; title: Self-portrait as a photograph of a platter --; title: The illusion of physicality --; title: You have to be uncompromising as you pass through --; title: Portrait as self-portrait --; title: One photograph of a rooftop --; title: In the street --; title: In this photograph I am untitled --; title: Gesture dance diagram --; title: Admission --; title: Self-portrait in a bathroom mirror --; title: Our game, our party, our work --; title: Afterward/afterword --; title: A note on Lucia Moholy.