I am forwarding this announcement about a new artists' book at the request
of the artist.  -- Claire
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>Picturing Death by Deborah Boardman is a limited edition artist book of
fifty
>volumes completed in 2000.
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>Mark Pascale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at The Art
Institute of
>Chicago, contributes the foreword.
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>Each volume is beautifully hand bound by book binder Giselle Simon,
Chicago, in
>dark chocolate Waterford Linen. Each book has the title stamped in gold on
the
>cover.
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>Picturing Death consists of twelve plates of original gouaches and is
reproduced
>in 200 line screen imaging and printed on Scheufelen PhoeniXmotion 90 lb.
text by
>Nimrod Systems, Ltd., Chicago.
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>The twelve accompanying poetic texts are silk screened by Steve Walters,
Chicago,
>in Weiss Roman font on Rives heavyweight: the endsheets are Roma.
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>Each copy of Picturing Death is signed by the artist.
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>Deborah Boardman s artist books are included in the artist book
collections of
>The Art Institute of Chicago s Ryerson and Burnham Library, The Museum of
Modern
>Art, New York, The School of the Art Institute s Joan Flasch Artist Book
>Collection, the Newberry Library s Wing Collection, Chicago, the Houghton
Library
>at Harvard University, the Waldo Library at Western Michigan University
and the
>Rare Books Collection at Boston Public Library.
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>A principle aspect of her artist practice since 1987, Boardman s artist
books
>have frequently functioned as parts of installations and larger projects.
this
>limited edition of Picturing Death serves as the centerpiece of the
Picturing
>Death Project, an interactive series of installations in which participants
>gather to reflect upon, write about and discuss their personal experiences
with
>death and dying.
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>Deborah Boardman grew up in coastal New England. She received her BA from
Mount
>Holyoke College, her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, and after
pursuing
>art study at Atelier Lucio Loubet in Paris, received her MFA from Tufts
>University with the School of the museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She taught
for
>more than six years at the University of Iowa and is currently an
instructor at
>The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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>Ordering Information
>Book   $800.00
>Custom Box   $100.00
>Illinois Sales Tax x 8.75%
>Shipping and Handling $15.00
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>Place orders with:
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>Deborah Boardman
>1436 West Highland Avenue
>Chicago, IL 60660
>email: [log in to unmask]
>phone: 773-508-9091
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