“In August 2013, Ray Fenwick participated in the Print and Publishing Symposium in Dawson City, Yukon. Each of the seven invited participants spent the three days giving demonstrations of a variety of printmaking techniques. Working with a 36 point sans serif font and a table top platen press Fenwick created these title pages to demonstrate the art of composing, setting and printing with lead type. Beginning with the first title: THE COMBED THUNDER CLAP, each succesive title was created by changing only one or two letters of the previous title to make a new variation. The resulting permutations are a display of concrete poetry that is hilarious and brilliant. This publication is a facsimile edition of the suite of 30 title pages printed in the historic Dawson Daily News building during the symposium.”
A series of reproduced, subtly evolving title pages originally produced on a letterpress.
Soft cover with torn paper label, 23,5 x 16 cm, 62 not numbered pages, (ed/50), Vancouver 2014
ISBN: 978-1-897243-85-5
