Celestial navigation
Publisher: Karen Hanmer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Glenview, Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Astronomy in art; Artists' books; Specimens; American Love poetry
Notes: Artist's book by Karen Hanmer.

Limited ed. of 30 signed, numbered copies.

"Celestial Navigation is constructed of ink-jet printed, hinged triangles that can be held in the hand and read page by page like a traditional book. Unfolded flat, it references historical star charts or contemporary NASA composite photographs. The book can also be folded into myriad sculptural shapes ... The diamond-shaped page-spread offers text printed against a star field on the left, mirrored by a 19th-century star chart on the right. The book has three possible spaceways: the textual narrative occupying one path, and the other two taken up with lists of astronomical instruments--particularly instruments of navigation--juxtaposed against 17th-century images of astrolabes, sextants, telescopes, and the like."--Artist's Website.

Pigment inkjet prints. Issued with a protective wrapper with the same text and images from the book's covers. Housed in an artist-made archival box with title and limited ed. no. hand-written on top.

Rare Book copy: No. 22.