[Gift Book] / Dexter Sinister

Identifier:FA.B44.0555

Dimensions:13 signatures: 21.2 x 16 cm

Creation dates:2008

text by: David Reinfurt, Seth Price, Edgar Allan Poe, Louis Kaplan, Anthony Huberman, Rob Giampietro, Giles Weaver, J. Christopher Jones, David Senior

Description:13 loose, 8 page signatures; "A Short Account of the Library"--Dexter Sinister; (We would Like to Share) Some Thoughts On a Possible School Badge"--Dexter Sinister; "Post Master"-- David Reinfurt; "Dispersion"-- Seth Price; "The Purloined Letter"--Edgar Allan Poe; "Hanging Up Moholy"--Louis Kaplan; "Because Therefore"--Dexter Sinister; "This Stands As a Sketch to the Future"--David Reinfurt; "Naive Set Theory"--Anthony Huberman; "100.General Stumm Invades the State Libary and Learns About the World of Books, The Librarians Guarding it, and Intellectual Order (A Close Reading of Robert Musil)"--Rob Giampietro; "Further Notes From the Underground"--Giles Weaver; 'Once It's Typed It's Published the Story of My Writings..."--J.Christopher Jones; "Hospitality"--David Senior. "Printed by Duncan Hamilton on a Riso RP3700 stencil printer in an edition of 400 copies and co-ordinated by David Senior, Museum of Modern Art. These signatures were produced using TEX, an automated typesetting program written by Donald Knuth in 1970 to facilitate professional typographic production by a wide range of users, particular in the mathematic and scientific communities...TEX produces...plain text files and a semantic mark-up language compiled on-the-fly to produce final pages."--colophon.