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Object Description
Collection
Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)
Meador, Clifton
Title
Kora
Date
2007
Press(es)
Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books
Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.)
Purchase College, State University of New York
Physical Description
34 p.: chiefly ill.; 59 x 15 cm. + cloth wrap.
Subject(s)
Books -- Tibet Region
Pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Tibet (China)
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Religion
Wood-engraving, Tibetan -- Printing
Description
34
loose
pages
stacked
as in a
traditional
Tibetan
book
structure
(similar
to a
palm
leaf
format)
.
Cloth
covered
boards
with
screen
print
of the
font
Meador
developed
from his
photographs
of
pilgrims
taken
as they
circle
the
Derge
Parkhang
.
Cover
title
printed
on a
cloth
inset
is
also in
Meador's
font
.
Wrapped
in a
Tibetan
cloth
.
"
[P]rinted
at the
Center
for
Editions
,
Purchase
College
, on
Mohawk
Superfine
. The
film
and
separations
were
produced
at the
Center
for
Book
&
Paper
at
Columbia
College
Chicago...
. The
figures
are
line
drawings
from the
photographs
,
now
converted
into a
font
,
so
the
pilgrims
have
literally
turned
into
language
, at
least
in this
book"--Colophon
.
Library's
copy
is
no
.
29
of an
edition
of
50
,
signed
by the
artist
.
Abstract
Pictures
taken
at the
Dege
Parkhang
, a
printing
temple
located
in
Ganze
Autonomous
Prefecture
in
western
China
, in
August
of
2006
.
Pilgrims
circumambulating
the
exterior
of the
temple
,
some
carrying
prayer
wheels
with their
mantras
spinning
into the
ether
, are
performing
kora
, an
act
of
devotion
and
honor
to the
books
housed
therein
.
Book Type(s)
Artists' books
Binding
Loose pages between cloth covered boards, wrapped in cloth
Description
Collection
Otis Library's Artists' Books
Author(s)
Meador, Clifton
Title
Kora
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Image Description
The
book
wrapped
in
cloth
and a
card
describing
the
Tibetan
printing
temple
"
Derge
Parkhang.
"
ImageID
artb57351A
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Kora
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