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Footnotes : collage journal 30 years

Artist's Book
2000 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This book is a collection of images of pages from the artist's journals. The pages contain a mixture of writings, cut-outs, rubbings, sketches and found objects, such as dried lilies and wine labels. On some of the opposing pages are pieces of poetical text, seemingly unrelated, but which add another dimension to the reading of the book.

The work is a travelogue of sorts; an 'accounting of where her feet (and hands and mind) have taken her' (Jerome Rothenberg, from the preface of the book).

Knowles has mined her original travel books and pasted them on to fresh sheets, further supplementing them with new material collected more recently on a European trip, annotated with explanatory footnotes.

The book accompanied an exhibition by the artist at the Emily Harvey Gallery in October 2000.


Object details

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Object type
TitleFootnotes : collage journal 30 years (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Printed book
Brief description
Artist's book, 'Footnotes : collage journal 30 years', by Alison Knowles, with a pre-face by Jerome Rothenberg, Granary Books, New York, 2000
Physical description
Issued in both hardback and paperback by the same publisher in the same year and with the same ISBN; hardback has original collage in pocket. Library has paperback edition, lacking original collage.

241 pages
Dimensions
  • Height: 26cm
Summary
This book is a collection of images of pages from the artist's journals. The pages contain a mixture of writings, cut-outs, rubbings, sketches and found objects, such as dried lilies and wine labels. On some of the opposing pages are pieces of poetical text, seemingly unrelated, but which add another dimension to the reading of the book.

The work is a travelogue of sorts; an 'accounting of where her feet (and hands and mind) have taken her' (Jerome Rothenberg, from the preface of the book).

Knowles has mined her original travel books and pasted them on to fresh sheets, further supplementing them with new material collected more recently on a European trip, annotated with explanatory footnotes.

The book accompanied an exhibition by the artist at the Emily Harvey Gallery in October 2000.
Other number
603.AB.1087 - NAL Pressmark
Collection
Library number
38041001046085

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Record createdApril 3, 2014
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