Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Violi, Paul, 1944-2011
Title:
Gris-Gris / Paul Violi, Dale Devereux Barker.
Published / Created:
Ipswich [England] : Dale Devereux Barker, 2001.
Physical Description:
[25] leaves : ill. ; 41 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Gris-gris is the fourth in a series of collaborations between poet Paul Violi and artist Dale Devereux Barker and was published in 2001 in a limited edition of twelve portfolios containing eleven poems and eleven linocuts. All linoblocks and type were printed on 410g Somerset smooth paper by Dale Devereux Barker in Capel, St. Mary, Suffolk, England."
Contents:
Towards a February songbook ('Snow') -- Along Canopus Creek of Sunken Mine Road ('Yellow Terrain') -- Written in a time of worry and woe ('Vase') -- Pastorale ('Geezer') -- Light rain falling on deep snow ('Cubist Still-life') -- Word Power ('Juan's Pear') -- Thief tempted by the grandeur of February ('Vases and Leaves') -- Panorama ('Drinks') -- For it feels like February 29th or 30th or 31st ('Dwarf') -- Extended shortages ('Hans and Feet') -- On the ferry to stromness ('Jasper's Salmon').
Subject Terms:
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | English poetry. | Barker, D.D. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Linocuts -- Color. | Linocuts -- England -- 21st century. | Linocuts -- Hand-colored -- 2001.
Contributors:
Barker, Dale Devereux, artist.