‎Janus‎

‎Karte Italiens (Mittelitalien) und angrenzender Mittelmeerräume (Süden oben); reiche Vignette oben (Beginn des 4. Buches); Rückseite: Darstellung des Janus;‎

‎1587. Holzschnitt aus "Cosmographia" (4. Buch, deutsche Ausgabe, "Von Italia") von Sebastian Münster, Darst. S. 335 12,8 x 16; Bll. 22,5 x 37. Auf Wunsch Digitalaufnahme in jpg-Format erhältlich- photo in jpg-format available. Je nach Versandart können die Portokosten bis zu 2 ? weniger als angegeben betragen.‎

‎Janus, laurentischer Urkönig und römischer Schutzgott des Ein- und Ausgangs, jeglichen Anfangs überhaupt, als solcher mit der Geburtsgöttin Mater Matuta zusammengehörig. Tempel seit dem 3. Jh. v.Chr., dargestellt (siehe Abb.) mit Stab und Schlüssel sowie dem sprichwörtlichen ?Januskopf?, zwei nach entgegengesetzten Seiten blickenden Gesichtern. Fest am Agonium des 9. Januar. Die feierliche Öffnung der Januspforte auf dem Forum und deren Durchquerung durch das römische Heer bedeutete den Kriegsbeginn. Der Januar ist nach ihm benannt.‎

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‎"WORM, OLE, WILHELM WORM, JANUS WORM ET AL.‎

‎Samlingsbind med skrifter og disputatser af medlemmer af slægten Worm. ialt 12 skrifter.‎

‎Kbhvn., 1619-1739. 4to. Et hldrbd. fra omkring 1750, ryg slidt. Ialt ca. 500 pp.‎

‎Af Ole Worm kan fremhæves: Laurea I Philosophica. Summa. Waldkirch, 1619 og ""Jubileum Evangelium...Salomon Sartor, 1619"".‎

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‎(Janus Press) Meynell, Katharine‎

‎Eat Book‎

‎London and West Burke VT: Gefn Press and Janus Press 1990. Limited edition Number 40 of 150 copies signed by Meynell and Johanknecht. Images by Katharine Meynell and Susan Johanknecht. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Terra cotta acryllic-plastered boards stitched vellum spine. Wrapped in a rumpled linen dinner napkin. Limited edition Number 40 of 150 copies signed by Meynell and Johanknecht. Images by Katharine Meynell and Susan Johanknecht. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. "A sardonic poem about food love and nursery rhymes with six duotones of the poet's photographs of cherries sausages and white bread" from the prospectus. Gefn Press and Janus Press unknown‎

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‎(Man Ray) Janus (Editor)‎

‎MAN RAY. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE.‎

‎WOODBURY: BARRON'S. Fine. 1980. First American Edition. Close to fine in a priceclipped otherwise about fine dj. Slight discoloration to orange titles on spine of dj. . BARRON'S. unknown‎

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‎(Secundus), Janus‎

‎The Basia Of Joannes Secundus: Translated Into English Verse To Which Is Added The Epithalamium With The English Version Of George Ogle‎

‎hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1347003258.G ISBN : 1347003258 9781347003251

‎[GRUTER, Jan] Gruterus, Janus‎

‎Polyantheae tomus secundus‎

‎Argentorati: Sumptibus Haeredum Lazari Zetzneri 1624. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick folio. Two volumes in one. 12 1050; 1 -blank 8 994. Modern rear blank. Collation jumps from 980 to 985 at the end of volume two but the text seems complete there. Contemporary vellum with unidentified gilt armorial device to front board. Early signature to title. Pages a bit toned throughout but a sound copy of a scarce book. A mammoth volume of maxims by Flemish-born scholar and librarian Janus Gruterus. Gruterus was a professor of History at the University of Wittenburg until he lost his job in 1592 for refusing to compromise his Calvinist faith and subscribe to the Lutheran Formula of Concord. In this enclyclopedic humanist endeavor Gruterus presents the theological historical ancient and poetic occurences and significations of each subject. <br/><br/> Sumptibus Haeredum Lazari Zetzneri hardcover‎

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‎[JANUS PRESS]. THEOBALD, John‎

‎A Second Light‎

‎Newark VT: The Janus Press 1977. First edition. One of 75 copies the entire edition. Very fine copy. Large 8vo original cloth over boards original lithograph by Claire Van Vliet over front cover printed paper spine label. Very fine copy. The Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[JANUS PRESS]. JOHANKNECHT, Susan‎

‎Birthcords. Three Poems and a Lithograph‎

‎Newark VT: The Janus Press 1975. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Johanknecht the entire edition. Fine copy. Large 8vo original illustrated wrappers. Fine copy. The Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] McPherson, Sandra | designed by Claire Van Vliet and Audrey Holden‎

‎Broadside Handmade Definition of Obscurity‎

‎Newark VT: Jansu Press 2005. Broadside. Broadside. 24" x 19-1/2." Limited edition one of 100 copies. Base paper is Barcham Green's DeWint with collage of Chiyogami Twinrocker McGregor Vinzani and Janus papers. Printed in brown yellow and mauve. Fine. <br /> <br /> A striking broadside adapted from a quilt by Lucy Mooney Gees Bend Alabama 1935 reproduced in a book of postcards published by Chronicle Books in 2004. Fine Janus Press — Fifty Years p. 60. Jansu Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] Bush, George W‎

‎Broadside "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!‎

‎Newark VT: Janus Press 2006. Broadside. Broadside. 22-1/2" x 15." Edition unknown. Collage broadside with a facsimile of the U.S. Constitution on a cream laid paper across which is laid the printed line: "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" Beneath the facsimile is a description. A fine copy or nearly so. <br /> <br /> This was printed by Van Vliet and Ellen Dorn Levitt at the Janus Press for the 219th Anniversary of the signing of the Constitution. It relays an unfortunate outburst by then President George W. Bush in an Oval Office meeting between Republican Congressional leaders discussing the renewal of the USA Patriot Act in November of 2005. And while this was a moment in time the sentiment remains relevant in terms of the continued degradation of the founding document in the subsequent decade. Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] Lopez, Barry | pulp painting by Claire Van Vliet, Amanda Degener, and Mary Lyn Nutting‎

‎Broadside from Arctic Dreams: "Whatever evaluation we make of a particular stretch of land. . . .‎

‎Newark VT: Janus Press 1992. Broadside. Broadside. 24" x 17." Limited edition one of 90 copies. Signed by Lopez. Printed dry in black and blue on pulp painting landscape made from kozo gampi and abaca fibers. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> A beautiful except from Lopez's Arctic Dreams the pulp painting is a inspired illustrations to Lopez's sentiment: "Whatever evaluation we make of a particular stretch of land no matter how accurate or profound it finally proves inadequate. The land retains an identity of its own still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind with an attitude of regard. To try to sense the range and variety of its expression—its weather and colors and animals. To intend from the beginning to preserve some of the mystery within it as a king of wisdom to be experienced not questioned. And to be alert for its openings for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane and you know the land knows you are there." Fine Janus Press — Fifty Years p. 46. Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[JANUS PRESS] McPHERSON, Sandra‎

‎Designating Duet‎

‎Newark VT: The Janus Press 1989. First edition. One of 175 numbered copies signed by McPherson Claire Van Vliet and others involved in the production. Very fine copy. Square 8vo irregularly cut colored papers bound accordion-fold original patterned cloth publisher's cloth clamshell box. Very fine copy. The Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[JANUS PRESS]. McPHERSON, Sandra‎

‎Floralia‎

‎Portland and West Burke VT: Trace Editions / The Janus Press 1985. First edition. One of 150 copies signed by McPherson & Van Vliet out of an entire edition of 550. Fine copy. Square 8vo original patterned cloth over boards printed paper spine label. Fine copy. Trace Editions / The Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[JANUS PRESS]. JOHNSON, W R‎

‎From Actium‎

‎Newark VT: The Janus Press 1977. First edition. One of 75 copies the entire edition. Spine panel faintly sunned otherwise a fine copy. Large 8vo original cloth over boards original lithograph by Claire Van Vliet over front cover printed paper spine label. Spine panel faintly sunned otherwise a fine copy. The Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] Van Vliet, Claire (lithographs)‎

‎Greed‎

‎Newark VT: Janus Press 2013. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. 6-1/2" x 7." Limited edition one of 120 copies. Accordion fold with 8 panels 4 of them are fold-down pages. Each of the four page-spreads include letterpress text in various typefaces and colors which fold-down expanding the canvas of words sayings and accusations including a catalog of U.S. Senators and Representatives of the 111th Congress who became lobbyists—a list that fills the fold-down page in a small font; these opposite a lithograph by Van Vliet each lithograph is titled by the top word on the opposite page: Propagandist Lobbyist Banker Joe Public. Bound in gold paper repeated printed with the word "Greed" and all housed in gold slipcase. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> In a contemporary newspaper article in the Burlington Free Press Candace Page relates an interview with Van Vliet: "She picks up dummy of GREED a slim volume that will sit inside a glittery cover of gold paper. It opens like an accordion to display four Van Vliet black-and-white lithographs of distorted faces: A banker a lobbyist a newscaster she says 'and this one on the end the sap John Q. Public us.'" <br /> <br /> Van Vliet continues in the Page interview: "The word 'greed' will be printed multiple times on the cover in heavy unevenly inked type as though it were printed contemptuously by some greedy person with no respect for the written word. The paper is not handmade — that would be too good for the book. Instead it is 'slick nasty machine-made paper' she says. The edges of the gold cover will be sharp 'because greed is not a comfortable subject.'" There is a wonderful irony that the lithographs employed in Greed were originally drawn for an edition of Kafka decades before that just weren't quite right for the project. Here they are perfect! <br /> <br /> This is a striking book a political book one might say an angry and defiant book. Van Vliet's politics being informed by the McCarthy era during which she was a student she admits to having distrusted the powerful ever since. This edition sold out very quickly and is now rare in commerce. A book that was is and will always be relevant. Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] Luck, Barbara‎

‎How Big is Home‎

‎Newark VT: Janus Press 2020. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Octavo. 2 71 3 pp. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Sewn longstitch with three different colors of thread into St. Armand Papeterie's Canal paper with small printed embellishment on front cover. Letterpress printed in black and brick red on Canaletto paper. Strikingly illustrated with photographs ink knife images and collages all of which are digitally printed many are folding. In card slipcase with printed paper label on the spine. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> A remarkable collection Luck's lyrics are by turns searching defiant and resigned but always personal and human "I thought when I threw away the bus transfers / I used again and again / I would lose this turbulence / in the coming and going / from here to there." A wonderful book of poetry wonderfully illustrated by Luck; and here beautifully designed and printed in the inimitable fashion of the Janus Press. And few Janus Press books are issued without some novel playfulness or unique element to their structure. Here a three-leaf section with short "grook" poems one on top and one on the bottom of each page that has a horizontal cut across the middle so the top and bottom of each leaf turn independently allowing the reader to navigate these several poems in a less prescriptive manner. Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] Van Vliet, Claire and Jerome Kaplan‎

‎Janus Press Books' Kafka Illustrations -- Collection 16‎

‎Janus Press 1975. Broadside. Prints. Sizes vary but most are 12-1/2" x 10." Limited edition prints and artist's proofs. 19 lithographs and 4 relief etching from 4 works all housed in Janus Press-issued cloth clamshell with printed title label on the spine. Contents in three paper portfolios: 10 lithographs labeled The Tower of Babel: An Anthology Janus Press 1975; a mixture of artist's proofs and lithographs from a numbered edition including two not used in the book; prospectus for the book is laid in. The second portfolio contains the balance of lithographs used to illustrate The Tower of Babel: 9 lithographs titled Builders of Babel: Proverbs - Geneva Bible 1560; all are artist's proofs. Printed in Oslo by Eystein Hanche-Olsen at SKHS each of these 19 lithographs are signed by Van Vliet. The final portfolio contains 3 of 10 relief etchings printed by Jerome Kaplan for Kafka's Der Kubelreiter / The Bucket Rider Janus Press 1972 as well as one relief etching by Van Vliet for A Country Doctor Janus Press 1962. One lithograph with small crease to the bottom corner of the margin else all are fine in a generally Very Good or better clamshell. All the Van Vliet illustrations are signed by her and most with title A/P denotation or limitation and number on the verso. The three Kaplan relief etchings are unsigned. A wonderful collection of lithographs from the artist's archive. Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] [Plowboy Press] Aratus | art by Claire Van Vliet; translated by Stanley Lombardo; commentary by Mark Breen‎

‎Phaenomena / Sky Sign‎

‎Newark and Burke VT: Janus Press and Plowboy Press 2022. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Folio. 4 58 4 pp. plates maps illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Letterpress printed on Barcham Green Boxley by Andrew Miller-Brown of Plowboy Press. The frontispiece is Durer's northern celestial map. There are 28 illustrations of the constellations from Caspar Vopel's 1534 woodcuts and eight full-page original digital prints of weather by Claire Van Vliet based on her pulp paintings. Additionally there are numerous in-text illustrations some mounted some printed. This is sewn longstitch into pulp-painting covered boards by Katie MacGregor; pocket inside the front cover contains prospectus and Translator's Introduction and Notes. The book is wrapped in a linen-covered chemise lined with Durer's 1515 celestial maps all housed in maple and birchwood slipcase with a lasercut title on the spine. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> Aratus was born in Soli in present day Turkey in about 315 BCE. Educated in Athens he eventually made his way to the Macedonian court where it is believed he wrote the Phaenomena. It describes in verse the constellations their rotation in the night sky throughout the year various other natural signs and their uses as a calendar and weather forecasting tool for farmers and sailors. For Aratus these sky signs from the constellation Ursa Major to the smallest mouse tossing straw with its paws represent a gift from Zeus to guide human endeavor if only we would take notice. <br /> <br /> The Phaenomena was enormously popular in its time and afterwards. It inspired many translations some with a liberal dose of revisions and additions as well as many commentaries starting in at least the second century BCE. This edition of the Phaenomena features a verse translation from the Greek by Stanley Lombardo and a new commentary for the modern reader by Mark Breen senior meteorologist and director of the planetarium at the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium in St. Johnsbury Vermont. <br /> <br /> And while it is easy to get caught up in the interesting particulars of the book and its history as well as the particulars of this edition Van Vliet Miller-Brown and their collaborators have created an edition that has reinvigorated this millennia-old navigational and practical treatise. This edition is full of wonder. MacGregor's pulp painted covers are haunting and exquisitely suited for the work. And further the book designed with a mind towards early scholarly works with Aratus's text surrounded by commentary and illustration is a joy to leaf through every page spread is visually engaging from the early section on the constellations to the section on weather that is elevated by Van Vliet's art. After 70 years of bookmaking Van Vliet has not stopped pushing forward in her design and vision. Janus Press and Plowboy Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] Dawes, Kwame | drawings by Jon Gregg‎

‎Punta del Burro‎

‎Newark VT: Janus Press 2018. Original Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 2 24 ll. illus. Limited edition of one hundred numbered copies. Signed by Dawes and Gregg at the colophon. In a glued leaf binding in printed Canal paper covers. Gregg's drawings have been digitally printed here with Dawes's holographic poems letterpress printed from polymer plates around the drawings. Accompanying this is a smaller french-fold chapbook printed with matching foliation all housed in clamshell with maple wood sides in a slipcase with printed paper label. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> The chapbook offers a transcription of the holographic poems in the main work—though Dawes's handwriting is plenty legible. Additionally a short "Poet's Note" at the beginning of this chapbook describes his process of writing these poems in response to Gregg's drawings of Vallarta. He writes: "The poems collected here represent the most exciting part of making poems for me which is writing the first draft in that breakneck pace of someone in search of what a poem is offering and doing so with faith that it will eventually reveal itself to me." And of this particular collection of poems Dawes makes a fascinating observation: "I write to understand how I have been moved by the art." A beautiful idea searching for understanding through writing. A wonderful and accidental or perhaps inspired collaboration between the founder of the Vermont Studio Center and the Ghanaian poet. Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[JANUS PRESS]. JOHANKNECHT, Susan‎

‎Spring Clay. Poem in Twelve Parts. Lithographs by Susan Johanknecht‎

‎Newark VT: The Janus Press 1975. First edition. One of 75 numbered copies signed by Johanknecht the entire edition. Fine copy. 8vo original unprinted wrappers printed paper spine label. Fine copy. The Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[JANUS PRESS]. SCHUYLER, James‎

‎The Fireproof Floors of Witley Court. English Songs and Dances‎

‎Newark and West Burke VT: The Janus Press 1976. First edition. One of 150 numbered copies the entire edition printed torn cut & bound by Claire Van Vliet at the Janus Press on and of Kozu Fabriano & Canson paper. One of Schuyler's scarcest books owing to the fact that most of the edition went to subscribers of the press with the result that few copies of the book have been available for collectors of the poet. Fine copy. 8vo illustrated with architectural cut-out endpapers fashioned after the topiary gardens at Levens Hall Westmorland England original orange decorated wrappers. Fine copy. The Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[JANUS PRESS] SIEGL, Helen (illustrator)‎

‎The Guest. 17th Century Christ Church Manuscript. With Woodcuts by Helen Siegl‎

‎West Burke VT: The Janus Press Christmas 1976. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies signed by Siegl out of an edition of 300 with a separate suite of signed prints. Very fine copy. 8vo woodcuts printed in colors original cloth-backed pastepaper over boards publisher's board slipcase. Very fine copy. The Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] Hulme, Keri | art by Claire Van Vliet‎

‎The Silences Between Moeraki Conversations‎

‎Newark VT: Janus Press 2016. Wrappers. Fine binding. Quarto. 114 pp. frontis. illus. Limited edition one of 120 numbered copies. Signed by Hulme and Van Vliet. Bound using a woven strip binding designed by Claire Van Vliet; the covers are a dynamic pulp-painting with a vitreograph frontispiece with five additional illustrations that were digitally composed by Van Vliet and are original archival inkjet prints on handmade paper; these seem to blend photography and Van Vliet's pulp painting creating a striking and textured result. This is accompanied by a small octavo glossary with eight letterpress pages and fold-out photograph. All laid into a clamshell box of paper boards with acrylic-painted fore-edge and moon inset on the spine; map of Moeraki mounted inside the upper cover; maple and tamarack sides. Housed in slipcase with printed title label. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> Among the most ambitious projects of the press it is one of the largest at 114 pages and the longest projects of the Press taking 20 years from contact to completion. Each of the 6 "Conversations" are printed on different handmade papers many of which have varying leaf sizes. The poetry by Booker Prize-winning author of Bone People Keri Hulme rewards attention and patience. Similarly Van Vliet's books require more attention from the reader and Silences is no exception. For instance in one "conversation" she varies the page size and relationship—some leaves being half-page strips on the lower portion of the book can be paged through while sequences of cutouts and illustrations along the top remain are turned less frequently creating a constancy. Even the form of the book can be altered: the page-spread illustrations for instance can be pulled forward at the inner fold making what was two dimensional into three-dimensional. One can do this with all the illustrations simultaneously creating what Van Vliet describes in her Notes for Press Patrons "a three dimensional wagon wheel display." This book is a beautiful choreography between text image and form—all elements in harmony. Buchtel John A. The Art of Paper: Claire Van Vliet and the Janus Press: Papermaking Collaborations 2024. Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] Van Vliet, Claire‎

‎Tumbling Blocks for Pris and Bruce‎

‎Newark VT: Janus Press 1996. Fine binding. 2-1/4" x 2-1/4." 28 pp. Limited edition one of 200 numbered copies. Signed by Van Vliet and Audrey Holden who assembled them. Miniature cut letter alphabet of offcuts from the Janus Press edition of Praise Basted In: A Friendship Quilt for Aunt Sallie 1995. Housed in a non-adhesive cube of MacGregor-Vinzani pink abaca paper with a linocut pattern in yellow. In plastic outer box. A fine copy. <br /> <br /> "Waste not; want not" as they say. What better way to employ the offcuts from a significant project than to create this absolutely delightful alphabet. Of any number of throughlines in Van Vliet's long career her joy is certainly one of the most prominent. It appears in her most ambitious projects as much as it does in this wonderfully playful artist's book. Fine The Janus Press - Fifty Years p. 52. Janus Press unknown‎

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‎[Janus Press] Johanknecht, Susan‎

‎Waste Incant‎

‎Newark VT: Janus Press 2007. Wrappers. Fine binding. Oblong octavo. 26 ll. illus. Limited edition one of 150 numbered copies. Van Vliet's woven strip binding contains 12 printed leaves alternating with 14 illusion polycarbonate and flexible vinyl leaves all laid into a vinyl wrapper and housed in acrylic slipcase. Some of the vinyl leaves have started to break down their oils leaching into and discolor the paper leaves an unexpected and according to Van Vliet perfectly fitting result. <br /> <br /> This book is referential of the author's earlier Hermetic Waste Gefn Press 1986 that was issued the summer after the Chernobyl disaster. She writes in an artist statement: "The collagraph prints in Hermetic Waste were derived from alchemical engravings — here in Waste Incant the calligraphic line drawings are derived from science illustrations in children's text books. Redrawn and merging the pictorial 'facts' depict a disrupted 'nature.' Poetic texts sit inside the imagery functioning as an integrated caption. They describe processes by which toxic material enters into the environment. The back of each page lists hazardous wastes. Plastic interleaving features in both books referencing materials used in the storage of waste. How little has changed in twenty years." <br /> <br /> In her Grolier Club catalog to the collection of Robert J. Rubin Yvonne Korshak echoes and expands Johanknecht's statement of Waste Incant: "The book in its acrylic case is a statement about the storage of nuclear waste in plastic. The line drawings are derived from children's textbooks redrawn to show a disrupted nature. The toxic wastes listed partially alphabetically are printed on both sides of the embossed paper each page separated by a plastic sheet. The unstable and hence inappropriate and hazardous use of plastic to contain toxic waste is emphasized by the diverse deformations of each of the plastic sheets. <br /> <br /> "How fascinating that the book is immaculate and glamorous while its topic - waste - implies what's dirty and distasteful. The ironic disjunction dramatizes the tension between the allure of easy labor magical communications and other seductions of our high tech culture and the tarnished other side of the coin deadly byproducts with tenacious half-lives. The book uses the very products it condemns. We can't do without it can we" Yvonne Korshak and Robert J. Rubin. Beyond the Text: Artists' Books from the Collection of Robert J. Ruben. Grolier Club 2010. Janus Press unknown‎

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