Production Narrative

by C. Meador

Critical Analysis

by E. Rettberg

Design Features

typographic: Type appears only on the book's cover; the rest is all image.

imagery: Images of empty natural landscapes in the book's first pages eventually move toward images of human, urban landscapes; images of animals move into images of people hunting, then at war.

graphical: For the most part, the spreads feature a single color; as the book goes on, geometric patterns of color begin to take over the pages.

turnings: The book's gutter allows the images from one spread to intrude upon the images from another, to strong effect.

development: The color patterns become ever more fragmented, eventually yielding to the visually cacaphonous swirl of the back cover.

Critical Discussion

General Comments

[E. Rettberg]

Rising, Converging

Agents

Clifton Meador

type: initiating

role:
author
designer
artist

nationality:
born: United States
active: United States
citizenship: United States

Publication Information

edition type: editioned

publisher: Clifton Meador

place:

dates:
publication: 1988-00-00 Summer 1988

edition size: unknown

Measurements

horizontal: 4.875 inches closed

vertical: 7 inches closed

Production Information

production means:
offset (local)

binding: hand sewn (local)

substrate:
bookBlock: paper Cardstock, same as cover.

media:
ink (local)

Appearance

general description: A small volume that contains several halftoned black and white photographic images printed on fields of color.

format: codex (AAT)

cover: The front cover features a black-and-white image of a volcano. The title is printed in silver, and the artists' name is printed in a bluish metallic. The back cover is a psychodelic swirl of cover overlaid on the same image as the front cover.

color: yes

Content

pagination: unpaginated 28 unnumbered pages

numbered?: unnumbered

signed?: unsigned

Colophon

None