 PROSPECTUS: The
Double
Elephant
Press
introduces
a
new
scholarly
publication
titled
Common
Monsters
of
the
United
States.
Outlandish
fauna
are
artfully
observed
&
illuminated
by
Michael
Kuch.
From
the
American
Imperialist
Moth,
Pax
americana
to
the
Fat-Man
Stealth
Bat,
Papilla
terror,
this
natural
history
surveys
the
salient
creatures
of
our
current
political
landscape.
Ten
plates,
thirteen
&
a
half
by
nine
&
a
half
inches,
are
etched
with
images
of
the
beasts,
their
common
names
&
binomial
nomenclature.
These
etchings
are
hand-watercolored
in
the
tradition
of
natural
history
books
by
the
artist.
A
sesquipedalian
description
of
each
anthropic
monster
is
printed
letterpress
in
a
shaped
form
on
translucent
paper
revealing
each
limned
teratism
on
the
next
page.
Twenty-five
books
&
fifteen
boxed
suites
of
etchings
with
text
will
be
available
for
sale
March
2004.
The
book
measures
nineteen
by
fourteen
inches.
The
type
is
fourteen
point
Romulus
set
&
cast
by
Julia
Ferrari & Dan Carr of
Golgonooza Letter Foundry. Arther Larson
printed the letterpress & etchings.
The etching paper is Zecchi's Alcantara
made by hand in Firenze. The translucent
paper was made from six-hour beaten abaca
fiber by Shannon Brock at Carriage House
Paper in Brooklyn. She also made paper for
a moth collage, pulp painted by Kuch, on
the book cover & the two-flap chemise
for the suite of prints. Lisa Van Pelt bound
the volumes, which come housed in tray cases
each with a glass cover as though a specimen
box. This window displays the moth.
This book is sold out. Individual
prints may stil be available. For more information,
please visit the comments
page to send an email.
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