Critical Analysis

by E. Rettberg

Design Features

typographic: The cover's titular dust erodes into light as it is read from left to right.

openings: What appear to be page numbers on the understated versos of several pages are probably actually designations of copy number, following page 2's announcement of "2nd generation copy of a blank sheet of paper."

turnings: As the pages are turned, the reader encounters more and more dust crowding the recto page.

temporal features: If the book is flip-booked from back to front, its reader can experience the sensation of dust become ever smaller and then dissipating into light.

Dust and Light

Agents

George Gessert

type: initiating

role:
artist

nationality:
born: United States
citizenship: United States

dates:
birth: 1944-00-00

Publication Information

edition type: editioned

publisher: Green Light

place: Eugene, Oregon

dates:
publication: 1987-00-00

edition size: 300

Measurements

horizontal: 11.125 inches closed

vertical: 8.5 inches closed

depth: .15 inches closed

Production Information

production means:
xerographic (local)

binding: other long plastic clip

substrate:
bookBlock: paper white, slightly thicker than plain printer paper.

media:
ink (local)

Appearance

format: codex (AAT)

cover: The cover is made of the same standard yellowing white paper that the book block is printed on.

color: no

Content

pagination: unpaginated 38 pages

numbered?: numbered

signed?: signed

Colophon

none