Tender Buttons, tenderly.
Boston: 2006.
Artist's book, one of 24 copies only, each on Frankfurt paper, each copy signed and numbered by artist, Laura Davidson. Page size: double-sided pages are each 1-3/4 inches in diameter; 28pp. Bound: each double-side page is hinged with pink silk ribbon forming an accordion-style binding housed in a brass box measuring 2 x 2 x 5/8 inches, 7 buttons of various colors and shapes and sizes are "sewn" onto the top of the brass box lid, box lined with paper containing additional text, new.
This book pays homage to Gertrude Stein's 1914 work TENDER BUTTONS. The text is typed on Frankfurt paper. The illustrated "buttons / pages" are painted with ink and wash. Text selections include, "Enthusiastically / hurting a / clouded yellow / bud and saucer," and "water raining" and "Water / astonishing / and difficult / altogether / makes a / meadow and / a stroke" among others.
This is a delightful book - Laura Davidson's interpretation of Stein's word play is perfect.
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