A Close Read book
A Close Read: The Cather Projects

By Barbara Tetenbaum
Portland, Oregon: Triangular Press, 2012. Edition of 250.

7 x 9.25"; 36 pages. Interior sections digitally printed using French and Jefferson papers. Other text letterpress. Designed by Jennifer Viviano. Handbound by the artist. In wraps with fold out front and back covers.

A documentation of Barbara Tetenbaum's three projects concerning different aspects of her reading of Willa Cather's My Antonia: the original installation at Reed College in 2010, the artists' book Mining My Antonia; and the installation at the Hoffman Gallery at Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2012. It includes an essay Reading the Literary Text as 'Art in Space': Barbara Tetenbaum's My Antonia by Nathalia King, Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College.
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