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Maker(s):Kidner, Michael; Published by Circle Press
Culture:British (1917-2009)
Title:The Elastic Membrane
Date Made:1979
Type:Artist's Book
Materials:Boxed bookwork in wooden box with a Perspex cover in three parts: one "Practical"; three signed etchings and three signed lithographs; two spiral notebooks
Place Made:Europe; England; Guildford
Measurements:overall: 36 cm x 46 cm x 7 cm; 14 3/16 in x 18 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in
Accession Number:  UM 1980.25
Credit Line:Gift of Gerson Lazar through the Martin S. Ackerman Foundation
Museum Collection:  University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst
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Description:
A production in three parts by this ‘system artist’, contained in a wooden box with perspex cover. The first part, a ‘Practical’, is an example of a home-made computer used to generate the images which follow (made from wood, perspex, and an elastic membrane).
The second is made up of three signed etchings and three signed lithos.
The third consists of two spiral note books: 1) a 54 pp Continuity Book, 25 x 21 cm and: 2) a 72 pp facsimile of the artist’s Note Book, 20 x 17 cm – 300 signed copes, 40 proofs – the whole measures 46 x 36 x 7cm. Includes colophon/edition cover sheet. Published by Circle Press, London

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