Balcons
Artist's Book
1993 (published)
1993 (published)
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This first collaboration between the book artist Les Bicknell and the printmaker Matthew Tyson, was produced in a limited edition of 20 by Tyson's firm Imprints, following his relocation to France from the UK. The work is an irregularly folded sequence of handmade paper strips, with watercolour, collage and gilded elements. Both artists had graphic design backgrounds, and both consciously strove for abstraction and innovation, refusing to follow earlier, finer traditions of livres d'artistes or artists books. Bicknell in particular preferred to question the very nature of 'the book', using unorthodox approaches to typography or lack of it, folding, binding and illustration. 'Balcons' continues this exploration for Bicknell, altering and expanding his scope by collaborating with Tyson, for this work.
Object details
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| Title | Balcons (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | watercolour, collage and gilding |
| Brief description | Artist's book, 'Balcons', by Les Bicknell and Matthew Tyson, Imprints, Piegros la Clastre, 1993 |
| Physical description | Artist's book comprising an irregularly accordion-folded sequence of handmade paper strips, each 17cm wide, attached together on the reverse side by fragments of newsprint bearing television listings. The strips together form a continuous leaf over 1.5 metres long. A line of watercolour in tones of brown and pink, the shade varied for each of the three sections, runs along the upper edge. Paper shapes are collaged onto the leaves and with some gilding at the fore edge. The whole is pasted at one edge to a blue card cover, stapled onto which is a scarlet diagonal paper cross. Accompanied by a loose leaf bearing coloured shapes and a telephone number. Edition of 20 copies, signed by the artists. |
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| Summary | This first collaboration between the book artist Les Bicknell and the printmaker Matthew Tyson, was produced in a limited edition of 20 by Tyson's firm Imprints, following his relocation to France from the UK. The work is an irregularly folded sequence of handmade paper strips, with watercolour, collage and gilded elements. Both artists had graphic design backgrounds, and both consciously strove for abstraction and innovation, refusing to follow earlier, finer traditions of livres d'artistes or artists books. Bicknell in particular preferred to question the very nature of 'the book', using unorthodox approaches to typography or lack of it, folding, binding and illustration. 'Balcons' continues this exploration for Bicknell, altering and expanding his scope by collaborating with Tyson, for this work. |
| Other number | X940021 - NAL Pressmark |
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| Library number | 38041994106466 |
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| Record created | February 6, 2014 |
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