Cockram Mark (3 results)
- Hardcover
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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One of 175 unnumbered copies. Mission, British Columbia: Barbarian Press, The design concept is drawn from the contrast of the black ink to the white paper and the tiny details found in the illustrations. The endpapers, doublures, edge decoration, and second parchment boards are worked by rolling ink out, the resulting insti…nctive markings echo the actions of the printer creating depth and contrast to other stylized aspects of the book. Bradel binding covered in black and alum tawed goatskin and parchment. Multiple inlays. Black line and point work. Decorated top edge. Applied and sewn endbands with 'Manhattaning' to tailband. Hand worked black endpapers, pieced leather joints with matching edge to edge doublures. Housed in a custom two tray drop back box by the binder. Bound by Mark Cockram in 2014. 28cm x 40cm.
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Signed Limited Edition. One of 600 signed by Peter Blake. This copy not numbered. Text by Mel Gooding. This copy additionally signed by Mel Gooding. Nottingham: D3 Editions, Sir Peter Blake is a British artist probably best known for the 1967 album cover of The Beatles? Sgt. Pepper?s Lonely Hearts Club Band. His work in the 195…0s and 1960s brought him to the fore of the British pop art movement. Significant early works include On the Balcony (1955-57) and The First Real Target (1961). Blake?s love of letters and collecting come together in this work to illustrate the 18 unique alphabets he has produced, some of them previously unpublished. Mel Gooding, the author of the text, is an art critic, writer, and exhibition curator. He signed this copy of Alphabets which Cockram acquired in sheets directly from the publisher. It may well be the only copy of Alphabets signed by both Peter Blake and Mel Gooding. Double board, double hollow Bradel binding. Goat skin covering spine and all edges. Spine overlaid with hand-dyed Scrabble board. Boards covered in hand-colored linocuts, collage, and inclusions, notably a 23.5 carat gold-covered letter E. Endpapers are linocuts on hand-colored paper. Bound by Mark Cockram in 2014. 24.8 x 30.2cm.
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Unique. Buried book with 23.5 ct gold leaf inclusions. 15cm x 20cm. In 2009, Cockram was invited to take part in an Southbank (London) art festival called Pestival. Cockram was intrigued by the opportunity to engage with a natural enemy of the book: insects. What would happen if he buried a book in the ground and let nature take… over? Cockram buried one of his used sketchbooks (he makes his own) in a friend's garden. Digging it up weeks later revealed a book-shaped object, the pages and much of the binding eaten away by insects. The "damage" highlighted the organic nature of the materials Cockram used to make the book. The result was also very beautiful. It was the beginning, a jumping-off place for his own book art. Bookbinding is about control, precision, and deliberation. Burying a book is the opposite. There is no control. The book goes into the earth. There are different soils and climates. The amount of time in the ground can vary. The results are unpredictable. Cockram, a very deliberate artist, embraced the loss of control. For him, it was a cathartic and inspiring experience. He began to experiment. One buried book became part of his installation piece Through the Looking Glass now in the collection of the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Cockram's students come from all over the world. When it was time for them to go home, he would give a student an old sketchbook of his and ask them to bury the book for him, leave it for a while, dig it up and send it back to him. This book, Kintsugi, was buried in Bankok. Cockram says, "As it dried out large cracks and stress points began to appear. At first I was a bit miffed, but that is the way things go. As the cracks began to stabilise I looked on them not as a disaster, [but] more what we in the trade call 'A design opportunity.'".
