[London]: Fiona Banner and The Vanity Press, [2020]
Physical Description
[660] p. : ill. ; 23 cm. (pbk).
General Note
“Published to coincide with the exhibition `Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press: PERIOD’ at the Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square, London, 22 November 2019 to 24 January 2020, the artist has published a new book titled P E R I O D, riffing on the American vernacular for the full stop - a title that links the gendering of objects and mediums, and language with the idea of cycles of time, the body, and specific historicals.” [Frith Street Gallery website].
No title page. Title taken from spine.
Summary Note
“The full stops in this book have featured in works by Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press. They are each typeset in 1900 pt and positioned on the page according to the natural baseline of each font. The paintings are reproduced at 50% actual size. They are found paintings of ships at sea, that have been over-painted by Banner.
The calendar pages from 1992 and 1964 feature as these calendars are interchangeable with the calendar for the year 2020, which is a leap year, and the period, era, epoch, channel, cycle that this book is borne into.
The text-papers: Dedication, ArSe, Gutter, etc. are from Anatomy of the Book, 2010.
Other texts are from the notes folder in the artist’s phone.