• The Book of Takes / Paul Zelevansky
The Book of Takes / Paul Zelevansky The Book of Takes / Paul Zelevansky The Book of Takes / Paul Zelevansky The Book of Takes / Paul Zelevansky

The Book of Takes / Paul Zelevansky

Books

FA.SA4.0243
Fine Art Collection
34 leaves; 28.5 x 22.4 cm
1976
Paul Zelevansky
New York City
artists' books, offset lithography
Case bound book with black hide textured cover and tipped in abstract offset illustration. Title and publication information on spine; no colophon, unsigned. Book consists of commercially printed black and white offset printed text and images. "The book of Takes is a personal account of the process of extracting art from life. The external storyline, the biography, is marked by the titles within the signs...The Book of Takes is a chapter of a larger work called Jericho. It is a book within a book..."-Preface. There is a folded map located in of a pocket on the interior rear cover. "...At various points in the reading, you can locate yourself on it. It confirms the reader's physical existence inside the geography of Jericho."- [also from Preface]. Preface written by Lynn Hurwitz Zelevansky.