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The Black Banal, Tony Cokes, Elana Schlenker, Special Collections, Fleet Library
The Black Banal, Tony Cokes, Elana Schlenker, Special Collections, Fleet Library
Artists' Books
15 leaves, unbound sheets. Issued in burnt orange cloth-covered portfolio with bright red-pink lettering. Title from portfolio. Portfolio held closed with a yellow elastic band.
"Designed by Tony Cokes and Elana Schlenker. Screeprinted in Ithaca, New York by Kaleb Hunkele. Slipcase produced in Jersey City, New Jersey by Conveyor Editions. Edition of 100. Second Edition"--Colophon, page [3] of portfolio.
The Black Banal, a limited edition, hand silk-screened portfolio, is a graphic blast of found text sourced and sequenced by Tony Cokes. Cokes channels the intense boredom and extreme anger generated by his encounter with the source material into an act …