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Archive Print Item: Artists' Books 313

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Type of record: Book

Title: Site unseen

Level: Item

Classmark: Artists' Books 313

Creator(s): Gooding, Mel

Additional creator(s): Smith, Terry (1956-) (Artist); Putnam, James (Writer of supplementary textual content); Hill, Emma (Book designer); Palmer, David (Book designer); Sykes, Richard (1946-2019) (Former owner); Mason, Penny (Former owner)

Related people: Smith, Terry, 1956-

Publisher: EMH Arts/Eagle Graphics; The Pale Green Press

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1997

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 volume (unpaged)

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/793974

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991021355581905181

Description

"An artist's book by Mel Gooding, James Putnam and Terry Smith"--Colophon.

"Poems by Mel Gooding, critical Text James Putnam and forward and backward Terry Smith."--Artist's website.

"Edited by Emma Hill. Designed by Emma Hill and David Palmer... Printed by the Pale Green Press, London. Screenprints printed by 1st Choice Studios, London."--Colophon.

Spiral bound in corrugated card covers.

Explores the secret spaces of a derelict house in South London. A series of architectural interventions by Terry Smith are recorded, through photographs, screenprints and cut outs, with a related poetic text by Mel Godding and an essay by James Putnam.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 313: Gift from the collection of Richard Sykes and Penny Mason through the Contemporary Art Society, 2023. Purchased by Richard Sykes and Penny Mason in 1995 from The Eagle Gallery / EMH Arts, London.

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