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by Roger Haus

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“When Insects Rule the World” series by Bill Mayer

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It’s Fine Press Friday!

For the last Friday of 2024, we’re featuring John’s Apples, produced by Walter Hamady’s Perishable Press in Mount Horeb, WI, in 1995, in a limited edition of 125 copies. The book contains thirteen paintings by American artist John Wilde (1919-2006).and twelve poems by American poet and author Reeve Lindbergh (b. 1945). The book is made with a variety of papers including papers from Japan, Europe, and domestic paper handmade by Hamady’s elder daughter in Perry Township, Ohio. According to the colophon,the book was made “pretty much by Hand using passé technology.”

Walter Hamady (1940-2019) founded Perishable Press in 1964. The press was one of the first to produce work with a Vandercook proofing press, and is known for its innovative use of type and paper. In a profile of Hamady from 1991, Mary Lydon, his colleague at UW-Madison, suggests his books work to deliberately frustrate the “too adept reader.” This reader is frustrated and forced “to regress and, to recapture something of the pleasurable mystery (and frustration) of preliteracy” (155).

Appropriate then, that the text of the book is built on the poetry of Reeve Lindbergh, a children’s writer, and daughter of Charles Lindbergh. The playful verses sometimes sit opposite a relevant produce-related painting from Wilde. Other poems are printed on translucent paper through which you can make out Wilde’s vegetal shapes. The poems appear to be ekphrastic – composed directly from the paintings.  John Wilde (1919-2006) was a frequent collaborator with Hamady, and both taught for many years at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

This book comes to us from the collection of the late Dennis Bayuzick.

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-- Amanda Haag, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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André Brasilier - Les marais de Loupeigne, 1991, oil on canvas, 80 x 116 cm

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Patrick Hickey (Irish, 1927-1998), Still Life with Oysters. Oil on canvas, 25 x 30 in.

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Pang Bin - Live in the Mountains, Sleep Next to Water, 2024 - Acrylic on canvas

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🐌 I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (sistematica) Berlin: R. Friedländer & Sohn, 1896.

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Mamoru Shimokochi, 1981

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François Pompon, De ijsbeer, 1922

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Luminogramm VII, Gottfried Jäger, 1980

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Gil Rigoulet, 1970s

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Lou Benesch (French-American, 1989) - The Prince (2021)

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A woman wearing motorcycling clothing in Berlin, riding a motorized Pfeil, 1905

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Nikki Giovanni & her son.

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Agostino Tulumello Untitled, 2011 Mixed media on tissues laid down on cardboard 25 1/5 × 33 1/10 in | 64 × 84 cm

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Agnes Martin / Navajo Blankets, (announcement), Pace Gallery, New York, NY, November 14 – December 21, 2018 [J.N. Herlin, Inc., New York, NY]

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New York Graphic Workshop: Liliana Porter: Conceptual Art, 1969 / Luis Camnitzer: Textual Art, 1969, (artist's card), Text by Lucy Lippard ('557,087'), New York Graphic Workshop (NYGW), New York, NY, 1969 [J.N. Herlin, Inc., New York, NY. Libreria El Astillero, Cantabria]