A printer's exquisite corpse

Creator

Silver Buckle Press

Date

• 1992

Publisher

Madison, Wisconsin: Silver Buckle Press

Summary

• COLOPHON: "This project was organized by the Silver Buckle Press, a working museum of historic printing equipment held withing the U.W.-Madison Libraries. Label and title sections were printed at the Press by Barbara Tetenbaum, Caryl Herfort & Anna Hepler. The boxes were constructed at BookLab under the direction of Priscilla Spitler. Of 100 copies this is # 71." Individual prints are signed by the artists.
• Participants: Pamela Barrie; John Bennett: Gardyloo Press; Betsy Davids: Rebis Press; Jim Escalante: Iguana Press; Dikko Faust/EK Smith: Purgatory Pie Press; Diane Fine: (the) Moonkosh Press; Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press; Alisa Golden: never mind the press; Susan kae Grant: Black Rose Press; Barbara Henry: Bowne & Co., Stationers; Tracy Honn: Ragpicker Press; Sheley Hoyt Editions; Alastair Johnston: Poltroon Press; Susan King: Paradise Press; Katherine Kuehn: Salient Seedling Press; Peter Kruty Editions; Tom Lang: Art Motel Press; Jim Lee: Blue Moon Press; Bruce Licher: Independent Projects Press; Ruth Lingen: Poote Press; Jeanette McGrath; Bonnie O'Connell: Penumbra Press; Mary Jo Pauly: Lychnobite Press; Harry Reese: Turkey Press; John Risseeuw: Cabbagehead Press; Cathie Ruggie-Saunders: Hosanna Press; Pati Scobey: Ricochet Works; Jim Sherraden: Hatch Show Print; Pam Smith: Press of the Palace of the Governors; Bonnie Stahlecker: Mellanberry Press; Barbara Tetenbaum: Silver Buckle Press; Walter Tisdale: Tatlin Books; Claire Van Vliet: Janus Press; Debra Weier: Emanon Press
• The case is fitted with four compartments arranged vertically so that the top has images of the head. The next compartment down contains images of the chest. The next holds the abdomen and upper thighs. The bottom is for the lower extremities. The prints can be arranged, mix-and-match style, to form an infinite variety of body views.