Minnesota Center for Book Arts ~ Minnesota

The Summer House
Story by Patricia Hampl
2000. Standard edition of 125.

7.125 x 10.125”; 46 pages. Text and illustrations in a two-section, modified French-door structure. Non-adhesive binding, pamphlet-stitched into stiff paper covers of Canson Mi-Tientes wrapped with Japanese moriki paper. Housed in a multicolored slipcase. Letterpress printed from Monotype Joanna on Mohawk Superfine with underprinted handwritten text from polymer plates. Signed by the author. Includes ten illustrative prints executed by book artists and printmakers: Maureen Cummins, Gordon Fluke, Barbara Henry, Tom Lang, Ellen Lanyon, Frances J. Myers, Mary Phelan, JoAnna Poehlmann, Wilber Schilling, and Debra Weier.

Visual interpretations by ten innovative book artists and printmakers. The titular house, located in Minnesota's beautiful St. Croix River valley, provides more than a honeymoon cottage for a recently remarried couple who have rented it for the first fragile season of their reconciliation. This is a dramatic meditation on the possibilities of forgiveness and indelible claims of memory. A range of images drawn from the story are presented through a various techniques, including linoleum and woodcut and collage, as each artist responds to the text in his or her own way.

This is MCBA's twelfth Winter Book, an annual series that features text by an established Minnesota author and is created through a collaboration of printers, designers, binders, papermakers, and visual artists.
$200

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