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Five Luminous Towers

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Title

Five Luminous Towers

Description

Barton, Carol June [author]
Five luminous towers : a book to be read in the dark / Carol Barton
Spec. N7433.4.B38 F58 2001
([Glen Echo, Md.] : Popular Kinetics Press, 2001)
1 v. (unpaged) : ill., maps ; 30 cm.

  • Includes six poems about towers; on alternating pages, five white laser-cut towers are lit from below by a small lightbulb.
  • "Produced in an edition of 50 at the University of the Arts' Borowsky Center for Publication Arts, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The type is Simoncini Garamond. Printing was done on a Heidelberg KORS offset press. The paper is Mohawk Superfine 65 lb. cover and 24 lb. text, and Gilbert Laser, Inc. of Deptford, New Jersey. The book was assembled and bound by the artist in her Bethesda, Maryland, studio"--Colophon.
  • Spec copy: No. 11 of 50; signed by the artist.
  • Spec copy: Full blue cloth with printed paper label on cover; pop-up towers illuminated by lightbulb set into p. [3] of cover; powered by two AA batteries.

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Original Format

Book
[Photographed by Rosalynn Stovall]

Citation

“Five Luminous Towers,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed May 2, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/5251.