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Creator:
King, Ronald, 1932-
Title(s):

1/4 hollow log book : cut by hand by the artist / Ron King.

Additional Title(s):

Quarter hollow log book

Hollow log book.

Published/Created:
London : Circle Press, 1998.
Physical Description:
1 art original : wood ; 14 cm high, 18 cm in diameter + painted wood base
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.4.K55 Q38 1998 Flat A
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Each of the four parts is bound with strips of linen. each part with 7 linen hinged sections.
Title and imprints from the bottom of the wood base.
Cooking the books : Ron King and Circle Press, p. 176
"Log books. An on-going project, begun in 1995, for a series of book-works which explore the possibilities of sawing a log of wood into book sections, or pages, which can be re-assembled into their original log form. There are variations in size for thre main designs ... Hollow Log (101) [the present work] Pages cut from the circumference of a hollow log divided into four codex-bound books of equal size."--Cooking the books.
Subject Terms:
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
Circle Press -- Publisher.
Trees.
Wood-carving -- Great Britain.
Form/Genre:
Artists' books -- Great Britain.
Carvings (visual works)
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