[BKARTS] Scripps College Press 2007 publication

[Kitty Maryatt <twohands.press@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Scripps College Press is pleased to announce the publication of  
their newest book,
KØTØBÅ NØ PÅRTY.

This is the 42nd in the series of limited edition collaborative books  
made at the Scripps College Press since 1986. There are 101 copies in  
the edition which was printed by letterpress.
						
For the 65th Anniversary of the founding of the Scripps College  
Press, a day-long symposium investigating the origins of the book  
arts movement in the 20th century was presented in January of 2007.  
The theory that the poem Un Coup de dés, published in 1896 by French  
symbolist poet Mallarmé, instigated much of the activity was  
imaginatively discussed by Betty Bright, Johanna Drucker, Judd  
Hubert,Clifton Meador and Marjorie Perloff.

In order to investigate these theories further, students in the  
Typography and the Book Arts class were asked to consider zaum poetry  
as developed by Russian avant-garde artists such as Iliazd from 1913  
onward. Zaum poetry has been described variously as performative  
music-language, untranslatable sound beyond signification, enhanced  
meaning or meaning turned inside out, Cubo-Futurist indeterminacy  
with symmetry and pattern, rhythm and harmony, color and sound.

Students looked particularly at the book Poésie de Mots Inconnus  
published by Iliazd in 1968 for inspiration in language use, text/ 
image balance, typographical and book structure. Original texts were  
written by the students in eight languages, while images were carved  
into linoleum or stencilled by pochoir. The book was printed onto  
Somerset Book paper and each sheet was French folded and organized  
into paper folders which slip into a case with an unusual accordion  
fold at the opening spine. The case utilizes Tyvek mounted to  
Somerset Book and is blind embossed. The title, KØTØBÅ NØ PÅRTY,  
means word party in Japanese. The size is 5 x 6.5 inches and there  
are 101 copies in the edition. Cost: $200.00.

To view images of this book and our other publications, please go the  
the website at www.scrippscollege.edu/dept/art/press and click on  
publications.

If you are interested in purchasing this book, please send a check  
for $200 plus applicable sales tax (8.25% for California) and $9.00  
shipping to the Scripps College Press, 1030 Columbia Avenue,  
Claremont, CA 91711.

For further information, contact Kitty Maryatt, Director of the  
Scripps College Press, at (909) 607-3866 or KMaryatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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