artists books – E

Mal Enright, 1949 Australia

Atlas 4 another Inseparable (1991)

enright - another inseparable

Enright supplied two found drawings to Jake Tilson, editor of Atlas. The drawings were used in Atlas 4 and Enright used copies of the magazine to add an ‘inseparable’. 28 x 21 cm plus inseparable wrapper.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane.

Rubber Matter – Printed Fact (1991)

enright - rubber matter - printed matter

The rubber stamp ‘Printed Matter’ is used differently on every second page giving the printed fact. 30 pp. 29.7 x 10.5 cm. Signed. Unique.

What gets up your nose? (1991)

enright - what gets up your nose?

On every alternate page, Enright lists just what it is that ‘gets up his nose’: Secret Society Members, News Readers, Self-Service Petrol Pumps, Mormons, Telephone Salespersons. 28 pp. 29.7 x 21 cm. Signed and numbered. Edition of 10. Collection holds edition 1/10. Parallel Productions, Brisbane.

piss’n'wind (the art scene) (1996)

enright-pissnwind

A complete digital book. Outputed from a file to an Indigo “Eprint” and printed on Mohawk options inxwell. Entirely made from recycled images & found texts. Prepare yourselves for his usual MalEisms. ‘The wind’ is recycled images from a U.K. Dyson advert for it’s vacuum cleaner combined with ‘the piss’ part, ‘martell cordon blue’, ‘moet et chandon vintage’, ‘absolute vodka’, etc opposite the appropriate ‘windbag’, all you have to do is match them up! ‘piss’n'wind’ is part of the artist’s continuing comments on the art scene. Dedicated to Sister Mary Boneventa ‘she know a good artist when she sees one’. 64 pp.15.0 x 10.7 cm. Signed and numbered. Edition of 20. Collection holds edition 1/20. numero uno publications, Brisbane.

Detail: Western Wisdom (explained) (1998)

enright - detail: western wisdom

Reworked found images with text using PhotoShop and mono laser outputs, bound by hand in plastic binders. A see through artist book, each copy is only one ninth of the original image, so be it! 34pp. 15.0 x 9.8 cm. Signed and numbered. Edition of 21. Collection holds edition 1/21. parallel productions, Brisbane.

Max Ernst, 1891 Germany-1976 Paris

La femme 100 têtes (1991 reprint)

ernst-la-femme

Ernst derived the material for his collages in ‘La femme 100  têtes’ from various encyclopaedias, dictionaries, technical books and pedagogical books. He named the picture stories ‘collage novel’. ‘La femme 100 têtes’ was first published in 1929 in Paris in an edition of 1000. Ernst also wrote the subtitles to the image. A first German edition was published by Gerhardt Verlag, Berlin, in 1962 with titles translated by Ernst. 322 pp. 25×19.5cm.147 picture stories. The collection holds a copy from the republished German edition of 1991. Published in an unaltered edition of 2500 in slipcase.

Riese Hubert, Renée, 1988, Surrealism and the Book, University of Califonia Press, Berkley.