The book undone
Subtitle: thirty years of Granary Books
By: Website curator, Sarah Arkebauer ; exhibit curators, Karla Nielsen and Sarah Arkebauer
Contributors: Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Publisher: Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Bibliography; Exhibitions; Private presses; Artists' books; Granary Books (Firm); Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Columbia University
Other titles: Thirty years of Granary Books; 30 years of Granary Books
Description: In 2001, fifteen years in to its operation, Granary Books published When Will the Book Be Done?, an illustrated, annotated catalog of their books. The title refers to an early joke between Steve Clay and printer/publisher Ruth Lingen, who included the question clipped from a magazine headline when delivering recently completed copies of Comeundone by Henrik Drescher to Clay. That clipping adorns the Granary offices to this day. This 2015 exhibition reviews that halfway point and reaches back to the press's origins in Minnesota in the mid-1980s. It then follows Granary's work to the present. This exhibition differs from previous exhibitions of the press's work by including material from the press's archive held by the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Notes: Website based on a physical exhibition held September 8, 2015 through January 29, 2016, Kempner Gallery, Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library.