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The
Left-Handed Punch is one of fourteen books in an exhibition
curated by students as part of the final project for the course
"The Artists Book in the 20th Century," taught in the fall of 2004
in the Mortimer Rare Book Room by curator Martin Antonetti.
Ronald
King (born 1932), an artist and book maker, established the Circle
Press in England in 1967. He formed the Press to "draw together
a circle of like-minded people" to make books. Over the years he
has collaborated with more than one hundred artists, writers, and
poets.
Book
Arts Gallery
(Neilson Library, third floor),
April 15 through August 2005
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This
collage silkscreened illustration, "The Devil," is from the Circle
Press edition of The Left-Handed Punch, published in 1986. A new
version of the story of the puppets Punch and Judy written by
Roy Fisher, the book features Ron King's brightly-colored images
of the puppets with movable parts, in this case the devil's cape
which pivots to alternately reveal or conceal the figure's legs.
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