- Ninety from the Nineties
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Ninety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing was an exhibition held at the New York Public Library from November 7, 2003 through May 28, 2004.
Ninety from the Nineties showcased a selection of ninety books made in the 1990s that were chosen on the merit of book arts. Note that the books were not necessarily written in the 1990s; some were older texts that were used to make special books in the 1990s. And, the books were not selected on literary merit.
In a contemporary review, The New York Times described the concept of the selection like this: "books, which we are accustomed to thinking of as containers — and conveyers — of information, are placed in a context in which form is valued over content. Language is less important than the type that impresses it on the page. The paper counts for more than the story told on it. The illustrations and the binding might be the story."
The books were divided into five categories: binding, paper, type, illustration and "inspiration." The exhibition was curated by Virginia Bartow.
Contents
Books in the exhibition
Following is a list of the ninety books selected and shown in the exhibition. The source for this list is the exhibition catalogue.
Number Section Book title Author Press Year 1 Binding Bon Bon Mots Julie Chen 2 Binding Doubly Bound: A Tool Kit [and] a Tackle Box Diane Fine and Tracy Honn 3 Binding Howards and Hoovers Indigo Som 4 Binding The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 5 Binding The True Collector Frederic Postman and Bonnie Stone 6 Binding Baucis and Philemon from Ovid's Metamorphoses Lois Morrison 7 Binding Tea: Time in Korea Greta D. Silbey 8 Binding Phantasies of a Love Thief Bilhana 9 Binding Where I Live: Environments Jim Gelfand 10 Binding The Blues and Jives of Dr. Hepcat Alan B. Govenar 11 Binding New World Saints — 12 Binding Exquisite Horse: A Printer's Corpse — 13 Binding Rush Job — 14 Binding Vorkuta Poems Sara Karig 15 Binding The Dam Domino Book Carol Schatt 16 Binding Anatomy Alice Jones 17 Binding She Pushes with Her Hands Dale Going 18 Binding Kokopelli Terry Horrigan 19 Binding Voyelles Arthur Rimbaud 20 Binding In Praise of Patterned Papers — 21 Paper Dard Hunter & Son Dard Hunter II and Dard Hunter III 22 Paper Fine Papers at the Oxford University Press John Bidwell 23 Paper Song of Changes Adrian Frutiger 24 Paper The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms J. P. Donleavy 25 Paper The Pool Toby Olson 26 Type Portraits of Presses of Fleece — 27 Type Gifts of the Leaves Dan Carr 28 Type LETTERpressworkBOOK James Trissel 29 Type A Printer's Dozen: Eleven Spreads from Unrealised Books Sebastian Carter 30 Type She Who Saw with Her Heart Roni Gross 31 Type Zapf's Civilite Disclosed Leonard Baskin 32 Type Rex Reason, elements Simon Patterson 33 Type Prove Before Laying Johanna Drucker 34 Type Bad News Lynne Tillman 35 Type Le Roi Francois da Ros 36 Type The Architetextures Nathaniel Tarn 37 Type Specimens of Wood Type Held at the Alembic Press Alembic Press 38 Type Ten Sonnets John Keats 39 Type Twenty-three Poems from the French of Max Jacob Max Jacob 40 Type Odes Horace 41 Type Keeping Going Seamus Heaney 42 Type Loaded References (2) Champe Smith 43 Type Ornamented Types — 44 Type Poetry through Typography — 45 Type The Officina Bodoni and the Stamperia Valdonega Grolier Club 46 Type The Old-fashioned Snow May Sarton 47 Type Lin He-jing Pu Lin 48 Type A Printer's Dozen Philip Gallo 49 Type Die Ringparabel Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 50 Type The Steadfast Tin Soldier of Joh Ernst Braches 51 Type The Six-cornered Snowflake John Frederick Nims 52 Type Acts of Devotion William Bronk 53 Type Within the Walls H. D. 54 Type Late Fire, Late Snow: New and Uncollected Poems Robert Francis 55 Type Poems for the New Century — 56 Type The Valentine Elegies Tess Gallagher 57 Type Night Lake Jean Valentine 58 Type Song of the Andoumboulou: 18–20 Nathaniel Mackey 59 Type Le chevallier Tondal: Gloss Written by the Fall(en) Typography Students — 60 Type Deborah, One of the Earliest Heroic Epics Elaine Galen 61 Type The Book of Revelation — 62 Illustration Wood Engravings June Paris 63 Illustration Phisicke against Fortune Francesco Petrarca 64 Illustration Waterfalls of the Mississippi Richard Frey Arey 65 Illustration Ein Nilpferd in New York Anke-Sophie Mey 66 Illustration Towers David Moyer 67 Illustration Trout & Bass — 68 Illustration Mr. Derrick Harris, 1919-1960 Simon Brett 69 Illustration The Players and Paradigms of the Commedia Dell' Arte Russell Maret 70 Illustration North Pacific Lands & Waters Gary Snyder 71 Illustration Buddha's Bowl: A Dreamed Folktale Alisa J. Golden 72 Illustration John De Pol: A Celebration of His Work by Many Hands — 73 Illustration A Canticle to the Waterbirds William Everson 74 Illustration A Canticle to the Waterbirds William Everson 75 Illustration The Bread of Days — 76 Illustration 36 Drawings Sarah Peter 77 Illustration Pochoir Vance Gerry 78 Illustration Das Mittagsmahl = Il Pranzo Christian Morgenstern 79 Illustration One-handed Basket Weaving Maulana Jalal Al-Din Rumi 80 Illustration Palms John Ridland 81 Illustration Gleichmass der Unruhe — 82 Inspiration David Jackson: Scenes from His Life David Jackson and James Merrill 83 Inspiration All My Relations Susan Lowdermilk 84 Inspiration Aliens in the Big Apple Zofia Zaremba 85 Inspiration As from a Fleece Gael Turnbull 86 Inspiration Agrippa William Gibson 87 Inspiration Batterers Denise Levertov 88 Inspiration The Red Ozier: A Literary Fine Press Michael Peich 89 Inspiration Cartesian Dreams Judith Mohns and Francois Deschamps 90 Inspiration Notebook Used Along the New Jersey Coast Walt Whitman References
- Books as Art Objects (Reading Is Optional). Michael Frank, The New York Times, January 2, 2004. [1]
- Ninety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing. (Catalogue of the exhibition at The New York Public Library.) Text by Virginia Bartow, curator, 2003.
See also
External links
- Books as Art Objects (Reading Is Optional). Michael Frank, The New York Times, January 2, 2004. [2]
- Ninety from the Nineties Showcases a Decade of The New York Public Library’s Contemporary Rare Books Acquisitions, www.nypl.org [3]
Categories:- Book publishing
- Paper art
- Book design
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