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10 diary pages 1969-82

Artist's Book
1983 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Artist and writer Ian Breakwell (1943-2005) kept detailed, illustrated diaries from the mid 1960s until his death in which he recorded everyday, often mundane events as he observed them. The diary entries included verbal descriptions of things seen, both handwritten and typed, and visual pages comprising drawings, photographs and photo-collage. Breakwell had already started to publish some of the diaries in modest small press editions when in 1983, while working on a fellowship at the Norwich School of Art, he got friendly with the printing department there and saw an opportunity to publish an edition that would do justice to the diary pages visually. The process used was photo-silkscreen using a limited range of colours. Breakwell chose diary pages that would fit this colour range, in order to produce prints that would approximate the richness of the original pages. The 10 diary pages, part verbal, part visual, have a typically voyeuristic quality and provide an intriguing slice of the mundane interspersed with elements of fantasy.


Object details

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Object type
Title10 diary pages 1969-82 (published title)
Materials and techniques
screenprinted pages
Brief description
Artist's book, '10 diary pages 1969-82', by Ian Breakwell, Norwich School of Art, Norwich, 1983

Physical description
A folio of ten screenprinted pages plus a title-page in a limited edition of 50 copies signed and numbered by the artist. NAL copy is no. 3.

10 pages.
Dimensions
  • Height: 34cm
Summary
Artist and writer Ian Breakwell (1943-2005) kept detailed, illustrated diaries from the mid 1960s until his death in which he recorded everyday, often mundane events as he observed them. The diary entries included verbal descriptions of things seen, both handwritten and typed, and visual pages comprising drawings, photographs and photo-collage. Breakwell had already started to publish some of the diaries in modest small press editions when in 1983, while working on a fellowship at the Norwich School of Art, he got friendly with the printing department there and saw an opportunity to publish an edition that would do justice to the diary pages visually. The process used was photo-silkscreen using a limited range of colours. Breakwell chose diary pages that would fit this colour range, in order to produce prints that would approximate the richness of the original pages. The 10 diary pages, part verbal, part visual, have a typically voyeuristic quality and provide an intriguing slice of the mundane interspersed with elements of fantasy.
Collection
Library number
38041989059571

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Record createdFebruary 6, 2014
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