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Telfer Stokes, Helen Douglas
1986
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Mim
Telfer Stokes, Helen Douglas
1986
Yarrow: Weproductions
Unpaginated [118 pages]
19 × 13 cm
Edition of 600; signed, dated and inscribed

Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas worked together for nearly three decades. Through their imprint, Weproductions, they developed a shared approach to the artist’s book. Influenced by the radical rethinking of the relationship between text and image found in Ed Ruscha’s early book projects, Stokes and Douglas used photography and sparse text to explore the narrative, visual, and conceptual possibilities of the book as a medium.


 


“MIM” is the fourth book in the MILLBOARD series, published by Weproductions in the 1980s, and develops Stokes and Douglas’s earlier investigations into the self-reflexive possibilities of the artist’s book, in which not only the depicted image but also the page, its edges, and its physical support become integral to the work.


 


Conceived as a haptic exercise in style, “MIM” binds together short texts on patterns and surfaces with photographic images, offset printing, and original wallpaper scraps, creating a palpable interplay of splicing, layering, and overlay. “MIM” is a literally tactile book from cover to cover.


 


In 2018, Printed Matter presented the first retrospective of the Weproductions press and its archive. 

Yarrow: Weproductions
Unpaginated [118 pages]
19 × 13 cm
Edition of 600; signed, dated and inscribed

Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas worked together for nearly three decades. Through their imprint, Weproductions, they developed a shared approach to the artist’s book. Influenced by the radical rethinking of the relationship between text and image found in Ed Ruscha’s early book projects, Stokes and Douglas used photography and sparse text to explore the narrative, visual, and conceptual possibilities of the book as a medium.

 

“MIM” is the fourth book in the MILLBOARD series, published by Weproductions in the 1980s, and develops Stokes and Douglas’s earlier investigations into the self-reflexive possibilities of the artist’s book, in which not only the depicted image but also the page, its edges, and its physical support become integral to the work.

 

Conceived as a haptic exercise in style, “MIM” binds together short texts on patterns and surfaces with photographic images, offset printing, and original wallpaper scraps, creating a palpable interplay of splicing, layering, and overlay. “MIM” is a literally tactile book from cover to cover.

 

In 2018, Printed Matter presented the first retrospective of the Weproductions press and its archive. 

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Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas worked together for nearly three decades. Through their imprint, Weproductions, they developed a shared approach to the artist’s book. Influenced by the radical rethinking of the relationship between text and image found in Ed Ruscha’s early book projects, Stokes and Douglas used photography and sparse text to explore the narrative, visual, and conceptual possibilities of the book as a medium.

 

“MIM” is the fourth book in the MILLBOARD series, published by Weproductions in the 1980s, and develops Stokes and Douglas’s earlier investigations into the self-reflexive possibilities of the artist’s book, in which not only the depicted image but also the page, its edges, and its physical support become integral to the work.

 

Conceived as a haptic exercise in style, “MIM” binds together short texts on patterns and surfaces with photographic images, offset printing, and original wallpaper scraps, creating a palpable interplay of splicing, layering, and overlay. “MIM” is a literally tactile book from cover to cover.

 

In 2018, Printed Matter presented the first retrospective of the Weproductions press and its archive. 

Yarrow: Weproductions
Unpaginated [118 pages]
19 × 13 cm
Edition of 600; signed, dated and inscribed

Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas worked together for nearly three decades. Through their imprint, Weproductions, they developed a shared approach to the artist’s book. Influenced by the radical rethinking of the relationship between text and image found in Ed Ruscha’s early book projects, Stokes and Douglas used photography and sparse text to explore the narrative, visual, and conceptual possibilities of the book as a medium.

 

“MIM” is the fourth book in the MILLBOARD series, published by Weproductions in the 1980s, and develops Stokes and Douglas’s earlier investigations into the self-reflexive possibilities of the artist’s book, in which not only the depicted image but also the page, its edges, and its physical support become integral to the work.

 

Conceived as a haptic exercise in style, “MIM” binds together short texts on patterns and surfaces with photographic images, offset printing, and original wallpaper scraps, creating a palpable interplay of splicing, layering, and overlay. “MIM” is a literally tactile book from cover to cover.

 

In 2018, Printed Matter presented the first retrospective of the Weproductions press and its archive. 

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Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas worked together for nearly three decades. Through their imprint, Weproductions, they developed a shared approach to the artist’s book. Influenced by the radical rethinking of the relationship between text and image found in Ed Ruscha’s early book projects, Stokes and Douglas used photography and sparse text to explore the narrative, visual, and conceptual possibilities of the book as a medium.

 

“MIM” is the fourth book in the MILLBOARD series, published by Weproductions in the 1980s, and develops Stokes and Douglas’s earlier investigations into the self-reflexive possibilities of the artist’s book, in which not only the depicted image but also the page, its edges, and its physical support become integral to the work.

 

Conceived as a haptic exercise in style, “MIM” binds together short texts on patterns and surfaces with photographic images, offset printing, and original wallpaper scraps, creating a palpable interplay of splicing, layering, and overlay. “MIM” is a literally tactile book from cover to cover.

 

In 2018, Printed Matter presented the first retrospective of the Weproductions press and its archive. 

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