Black dog white bark

Title: Black dog white bark
LC Subject: Artists' books
Repository: University of Oregon. Design Library
Creator: Van Horn, Erica
Contributor: Asekoff, L. S. (Louis S.), 1939-
Description: Printed in black and white on dark blue paper. This book is a pictorial essay of a crudely drawn dog barking a "white" cone shaped bark. With the dark blue background, it seems clear that the action is taking place after dark. As each page turns, the constant image of the dog and his white "bark" indicates the passage of time and connote a sense of anxiety (on the dog's part) or irritation (by the viewer). At the end of the book the dog, still barking seems to have exhausted itself, and is depicted on the ground, feet in the air. The irregularly spaced three hole stab binding is at the top of the book, and has been dipped in black paint. The book was originally created as a unique hand-painted book, but was reproduced using offset printing in an unnumbered edition of 200. A gift in memory of Peter Ward Britton
State Edition: Edition of 200
Work Type: notebooks
Issued: 1987
Identifier: Vanh_Blac_02
Item Locator: N7433.4.V355 B53 1987
Rights: In Copyright
Language: English
Publisher: Visual Studies Workshop. Press
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 21 x 13 cm
Material: Paint
Set: Artistsʼ Books at the University of Oregon Libraries
Primary Set: Artistsʼ Books at the University of Oregon Libraries
Institution: University of Oregon
Mode Of Issuance: monographs; Editioned
Place Of Production: Rochester >> City of Rochester >> Monroe County >> New York >> United States
Description Of Manifestation: Text by Louis Asekof. Drawings by Erica Van Horn. This book has been produced by Erica Van Horn, in an edition of 200 copies, during a residency at Visual Studies Workshop in April of 1987. The artist-in-residence program is supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the new York state Council on the Arts.