Half off / Mimi Pond
Artist's Book
1981 (published)
1981 (published)
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''Half Off' presents a series of wittily observed stories that reveal the low-budget, everyday life of a woman working as a waitress, as Mimi Pond did when the book was written.
The title, printed on the book's cover in the form of a price tag, refers to the cheap stores in which Pond shops, always searching for bargains.
The book is partly bound in a pink showercap - an allusion to the cheap goods referred to in the text and to the final story in the book, 'Too Bad', in which Pond takes a bath in the hope that doing so will cause the phone to ring and bring someone interesting into her life.
Colourful, comical prints bring the characters and situations of the text to life. Across the top and bottom of the pages dance pictorial borders of coffee pots, lipsticks, chocolate bars and underwear adding to the book's celebration of the frothy girlishness to be found amidst a life of daily drudgery.
The title, printed on the book's cover in the form of a price tag, refers to the cheap stores in which Pond shops, always searching for bargains.
The book is partly bound in a pink showercap - an allusion to the cheap goods referred to in the text and to the final story in the book, 'Too Bad', in which Pond takes a bath in the hope that doing so will cause the phone to ring and bring someone interesting into her life.
Colourful, comical prints bring the characters and situations of the text to life. Across the top and bottom of the pages dance pictorial borders of coffee pots, lipsticks, chocolate bars and underwear adding to the book's celebration of the frothy girlishness to be found amidst a life of daily drudgery.
Object details
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| Title | Half off / Mimi Pond (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Shower cap, printed paper pages |
| Brief description | Artist's book, 'Half off', by Mimi Pond, Rebis Press, California, 1981 |
| Physical description | Artist's book with colour illustrations and binding made from a shower cap. '115 copies designed, printed and bound by Betsy Davids and Mimi Pond...' - colophon 20 pages. |
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| Summary | ''Half Off' presents a series of wittily observed stories that reveal the low-budget, everyday life of a woman working as a waitress, as Mimi Pond did when the book was written. The title, printed on the book's cover in the form of a price tag, refers to the cheap stores in which Pond shops, always searching for bargains. The book is partly bound in a pink showercap - an allusion to the cheap goods referred to in the text and to the final story in the book, 'Too Bad', in which Pond takes a bath in the hope that doing so will cause the phone to ring and bring someone interesting into her life. Colourful, comical prints bring the characters and situations of the text to life. Across the top and bottom of the pages dance pictorial borders of coffee pots, lipsticks, chocolate bars and underwear adding to the book's celebration of the frothy girlishness to be found amidst a life of daily drudgery. |
| Other number | X890019 - NAL Pressmark |
| Collection | |
| Library number | 38041988036927 |
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| Record created | February 13, 2014 |
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