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Soap Story : An Artist's Book, Angela Lorenz, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Artists' Books

1 picture album in case + 6 bars of soap. Title from case. Edition of 200 copies. Typeface for silkscreen and lithograph in Stone Sans and Stone Serif. Cover embossing and lithograph printing by Stamperia Valdonega of Verona. Linen from Gori Tessuti of Prato, soap from Saponificio A. Gori of Arezzo. Both case and soap are wrapped and tied as indicated in the summary note. "This artists's book tells the story of a young woman in Calabria, Italy during the 1950's, whose real life reads like a fairy tale, or a soap opera, in six installments. In order to give …