Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

King, Ronald, 1932-

Title:

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

Alternate Title(s):

Quarter 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

Copyright Status:

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:

Trees. | Wood-carving -- Great Britain. | Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Circle Press -- Publisher.

Form/Genre:

Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Carvings (visual works)