Botnick Ken (5 results)

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Prospectus for two Red Ozier publications: The Woman & The Knife, by Aime Cesaire, and The Streets of Chance, by William S. Burroughs. Single sheet, 8 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches, folded once, engraving on recto of first leaf. Near fine (slight sunning?). (3214025). …

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in wrappers. Photos. Exhibition catalogue.

paperback. Condition: Good. Stapled gallery catalogue Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

wrappers. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. wrappers. 16 pages. CODE(x)+1 Monograph #18. Number eighteen in the CODE(x)+1 monograph series. While conceptual complexities differentiate the artist book from the world of handmade objects, there is a similarity in reconciling ones vision for a project with its functionality. One of the truest lessons of craft practice is that it is not only difficult to foster innovation and creativity in the absence of constraints, the constraints give birth to them. Italo Calvino described this as escaping the pull of gravity that so stimulates the imagination. The book, a seemingly constrained form, should surely be exhausted by now. Yet it continues. And we continue making them. The books ineffable natureits sustainable, renewable, inexhaustible resourceis found in the potential of the imaginative mind informed by the work of the hand.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Copyright © 1993 by Maud Lavin. 260 + xvii + pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minor edge wear. Over-sized and/or over weight book; extra postage required. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Ken Botnick (Design) (illustrator).…