Geiten
Artist's Book
1992 (published)
1992 (published)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Dorothé Krol was fascinated by goats as a child in her native Friesland in the North of the Netherlands. Later in life she decided to create an artist's book dedicated to them.
Bound within hand made wooden boards with a hessian spine, 'Geiten' comprises two separate sections of text and images attached head to tail (tête-bêche) around a central cardboard frame giving the work the box-like quality of a children's book.
The contents of both sections are made up of alternating coloured lithographic illustrations separated by translucent pages onto which handwritten texts and drawings (mainly of goats) are printed. A sound mechanism (a mamma box) emits a goat-like squeak when the book is turned over.
Bound within hand made wooden boards with a hessian spine, 'Geiten' comprises two separate sections of text and images attached head to tail (tête-bêche) around a central cardboard frame giving the work the box-like quality of a children's book.
The contents of both sections are made up of alternating coloured lithographic illustrations separated by translucent pages onto which handwritten texts and drawings (mainly of goats) are printed. A sound mechanism (a mamma box) emits a goat-like squeak when the book is turned over.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Geiten (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed book, lithographs, wooden boards |
| Brief description | Artist's book, 'Geiten', by Dorothe Krol, Gedruckt bij en uitgegeven door KNUST, Nijmegen, 1992 |
| Physical description | Alternating coloured lithographed illustrations and translucent pages on which handwritten texts and drawings are printed. Bound in two halves, both at the foredge, in a version of a 'French Doors' format but upside down to each other and separated by a wide spine, in wooden boards. Attached to the inner boards are a small plastic sample bag containing pellets of dung, and a sound mechanism which emits a squeak when the book is turned (a mamma box). Coloured label on front cover. Quarter bound in hessian, title stencilled on. 52 pages |
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| Summary | Dorothé Krol was fascinated by goats as a child in her native Friesland in the North of the Netherlands. Later in life she decided to create an artist's book dedicated to them. Bound within hand made wooden boards with a hessian spine, 'Geiten' comprises two separate sections of text and images attached head to tail (tête-bêche) around a central cardboard frame giving the work the box-like quality of a children's book. The contents of both sections are made up of alternating coloured lithographic illustrations separated by translucent pages onto which handwritten texts and drawings (mainly of goats) are printed. A sound mechanism (a mamma box) emits a goat-like squeak when the book is turned over. |
| Other number | X930234 - NAL Pressmark |
| Collection | |
| Library number | 38041993108257 |
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| Record created | April 2, 2014 |
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