tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post1284858039900552542..comments2024-02-24T18:30:26.749-07:00Comments on prairiemary: THE SERPENT TIME SWALLOWS BOOKSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-49555082573589279472011-03-22T11:47:29.218-06:002011-03-22T11:47:29.218-06:00you would enjoy two shows at the Holter in Helena:...you would enjoy two shows at the Holter in Helena:<br /><br />http://www.holtermuseum.org/category/art/now-showing/<br /><br /><br />LOIS CONNER/GEOFFREY JAMES/LEE FRIEDLANDER: THE WIDE OPEN<br />Sherman Gallery<br />Jan 21 – April 3, 2011<br />Reception: Friday, Jan 21, 5:30 – 8pm <br /><br />The stark beauty of Montana’s High Plains is captured by three of the most accomplished photographers working today: Lee Friedlander and Lois Conner of New York and Geoffrey James of Canada. Dramatic black-and-white images accompany the work of 22 prominent writers from The Wide Open, edited by author Annick Smith and Susan O’Connor, founder of the American Prairie Reserve<br /><br />Image: Geoffrey James, North of Winifred, 2004.<br /><br />STEPHANIE FROSTAD: WAY WILL OPEN<br />Bair Gallery<br />Feb 21 – April 3, 2011<br />Reception: Friday, Jan 21, 5:30 – 8pm<br />Gallery Talk: Saturday, Jan 22, 11:00am – noon <br /><br />Few artists capture the tension between the land and the human presence as Stephanie Frostad. Her work embodies the phrase “way will open,” an old Quaker expression of faith for navigating through uncertain times. This innovative exhibition brings together landscape studies, still life and figure drawings, and paintings in a studio environment that reveals the artist’s own inner world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11838465.post-83487283704429099502011-03-22T11:23:38.926-06:002011-03-22T11:23:38.926-06:00I imagine that the artisanal hand-made art book is...I imagine that the artisanal hand-made art book is one key way the book will endure. I've made a couple of hand-made art books and plan to make more.<br /><br />I am also aware of a small but dedicated movement of printers restoring and using older hand-set type on older hand-set presses, to do specialized publishing of limited runs of materials of all kinds. My sister is interested in becoming one of these. She already has the bindery skills. <br /><br />I like artisan books because they remind us that reading a book isn't only about absorbing the text, the contents, it is an entire sensual experience in itself. When I was a kid, I used to love the smells of paper and ink used, and loved that about the books and newspapers I read.<br /><br />A lot of writers are biased towards the text, of course. For them, the book is just a carrier of their brilliant ideas, so they don't really care what format the book is in do long as it delivers their brilliant words, and they can make money off it.<br /><br />I've thought more than once that it would be interesting to offer a college course to writers that would be a year-long course that would start with them writing, say, a book of poems, than take them all the way through design, typography, printing, and bindery. Since I have all those skills, it would be interesting to teach such a class. Maybe someday.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.com