Twenty Views of Cascade Head Prints by Frank Boyden and Charles Chu, Poems by Ian Boyden and Jennifer Boyden. Edition of ten. December 2001. price $3,000.00 This collaborative artist book is devoted to Cascade Head, a headland on the north-central coast of Oregon. The book is composed of a series of prints and poems, each of which present a particular view of that place. The presentation of the prints and poems loosely follows a presentation style that has a long history in Chinese painting. Historically, these paintings were generally handscrolls and album leaves that presented multiple views, both visual and literary, of an area or object. Usually intimate in size, these works were a means for contemplating and celebrating that place or object. A prime example of this genre is the Wangchuan Villa Handscroll by Wang Wei (701-761) in which the artist painted his favorite spots on his estate along the Wang River and then inscribed twenty poems that he interspersed among these views. Inherent in Twenty Views of Cascade Head is a viewing experience mediated by four guides. Ian Boyden and Frank Boyden are natives of Cascade Head; Jennifer Boyden and Charles Chu spent time there during writer- and artist-in-residency programs. The poems are set in Perpetua and printed on Hahnemühle Copperplate; the prints are drypoints and/or aquatints and were printed by Frank Boyden; the binding is a variation of Gary Frost’s sewn boards; the covers are made of lacewood (Cardwellia sublimis). Each book comes in a Solander box adorned with an original copperplate from the book. This book was produced for the dedication of the Charles Chu Asian Art Reading Room in the Charles E. Shain Library, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut. Dimensions: 8.75 x 7 x 1 inches. 56 pages. Note from the press
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