Footnotes

Knowles, Alison

ISBN 10: 1887123350 / ISBN 13: 9781887123358

Published by Granary Books, 2000

About this Item

Softcover; unpaginated, very good condition; clean and crisp; inscription on dedication page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Seller Inventory # FoKnGr65

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Footnotes
• Publisher: Granary Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1887123350
• ISBN 13: 9781887123358
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Artist Book

About this title

Synopsis

"Once upon a time [composer] Jim Tenney and I went walking in the woods. We came to a clearing and there under a tree was an arrangement of toy locomotives in the middle of nowhere. Pausing, we mused, where were they going, where had they been?" Attempting to write just such an imaginative history of her own life, and its comings and goings, New York artist Alison Knowles has compiled Footnotes--a collection of collage pages made from small, red travel books collected over thirty years, then pasted up and redrawn, in no definite or logical order. The settings of these collages range from Germany to Japan (but always coming back to New York), with a loosely woven context provided by jotted-down ideas and overheard conversations between her friends. These delicate pencil drawings convey a sense of time lost and regained, displacement and reorientation, of the scattered nature of our interior lives.

About the Author

Alison Knowles was born in New York City in 1933, and graduated from the Pratt Institue of Fine Art in Brooklyn. In the 60's she worked for Special Editions Press doing silkscreens and was associated with the Fluxus movement. Her installtion The Big Book was realized in New York and toured Canada and Europe before finally collapsing in California in the mid-seventies. Her second walk-in book, The Book of Bean, opened in Venice in 1983. Her computer instigated dwelling The House of Dust is on permanent display in California. Her other titles include Bread and Water, Spoken Texts, and A Bean Concordance.