The $2.00 lunch
Artist's Book
1989 (published)
1989 (published)
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This artist's book chronicles a week of inexpensive restaurant meals. Starting with, 'Monday: Grilled ham platter', this meal is colourfully illustrated on the opposite page inside a black border. A meal for each subsequent day of the week is similarly described in one brief line on the left and depicted on the right hand page, ending with, 'Sunday: Closed'. Describing itself as 'a utility grade paper product', the book is beautifully bound in quarter leather with hand coloured illustrations. Number one in an edition of 16 copies signed and numbered by the artist.
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Title | The $2.00 lunch (published title) |
Materials and techniques | Bound book, hand painted |
Brief description | Artist's book 'The $2:00 lunch' by F. Tomas, New York, 1989 |
Physical description | Hand painted artist's book. 18 pages, 7 leaves of plates. |
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Summary | This artist's book chronicles a week of inexpensive restaurant meals. Starting with, 'Monday: Grilled ham platter', this meal is colourfully illustrated on the opposite page inside a black border. A meal for each subsequent day of the week is similarly described in one brief line on the left and depicted on the right hand page, ending with, 'Sunday: Closed'. Describing itself as 'a utility grade paper product', the book is beautifully bound in quarter leather with hand coloured illustrations. Number one in an edition of 16 copies signed and numbered by the artist. |
Other number | X890063 - NAL Pressmark |
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Library number | 38041989038567 |
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Record created | February 6, 2014 |
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