Meanwhile
Subtitle: a tale of tales
By: Macy Chadwick
Contributors: In Cahoots Press
Publisher: In Cahoots Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Language: eng
Subjects: Storytelling in art; Artists' books; Specimens; Arabian nights
Work titles: Arabian nights. Selections. (Burton). English
Description: "With quotes from 'A Thousand and One Nights', 'Meanwhile' celebrates the importance of stories over time and across cultures. A series of organic imagery flows from page to page, overlapping and echoing the quality of 'A Thousand and One Nights' as one story leads to another and another. The quoted text is set in shaped text blocks and clusters of letters, like flocks of birds floating amidst the shapes. A few larger lines of text per page guide the viewer through the book, describing Sheherazade's experience of telling stories and, as a result, saving herself from execution by the King"--Artist's website, September 21, 2017.
Notes: Cover title.

Limited edition of 40 copies, signed and numbered by the artist.

Rare Book copy: No. 18

"Words were excerpted from the Sir Richard Burton translation of 'The Arabian Nights', originally published in 1885. Images were printed on the letterpress from linoleum blocks, text was printed from polymer plates of Impact and Perpetua on Rives Heavyweight paper. Printing and binding assisted by Paola Hurtado with additional printing by Keisha Mrotek"--Colophon.

"Accordion binding with hard covers, presented in a half-clamshell box"--Artist's website, September 21, 2017.
Table of contents: title: Story of King Shahryar and his brother; title: Tale of Ghanim Bin Ayyub, the distraught, the thrall of love; title: The tale of the ensorcelled prince; title: The first Kalandar's tale; title: The tale of Kamar Al-Zaman; title: Tale of the Second Eunuch, Kafur; title: The seventh voyage of Sindbad the Seaman; title: The first Kalandar's tale; title: Alaeddin, or The wonderful lamp; title: Tale of the Second Eunuch, Kafur; title: Julnar the Sea-Born and her son King Badr Basim of Persia; title: Alaeddin, or The wonderful lamp; title: Ali Baba and the forty thieves; title: The second Kalandar's tale; title: The city of brass; title: The second Kalandar's tale; title: Tale of the Second Eunuch, Kafur; title: Conclusion by Burton.