MARC Record from marc_columbia

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040 $aCNNGC$beng$erda$cCNNGC$dOCLCO$dBTCTA$dOCLCF$dSFMMA
050 4 $aN7433.4.B355$bF65 2016
082 04 $a709.2$223
100 1 $aBanner, Fiona,$eartist.
245 10 $aFont book :$bLynn Valley 11 /$cFiona Banner ; [edited and designed by Roger Bywater and Reid Shier].
264 1 $aNorth Vancouver, BC :$bPresentation House Gallery ;$aToronto, ON :$bBywater Bros. Editions,$c[2016]
264 4 $c©2016
300 $a144 unnumbered pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c18 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aLynn Valley ;$v11
500 $aCover title.
500 $a"A short time ago British artist Fiona Banner designed her own font, utilizing an amalgamation of typefaces she had employed in a variety of text-based artworks, including full stop sculptures, typeset wall works, and artist books, (including, for example The Nam, an epic account of Vietnam war movies written from memory). Banner named her new font: Font, a cheeky, self-referential title of little surprise to those familiar with Banner's poetic, disruptive interrogation of cultural, institutional and technological frameworks. Concurrent with her creation, Banner became fascinated with the idiosyncratic double meaning of the word itself. In addition to a typeface, a font is also a receptacle for holy water used, chiefly, in baptismal ceremonies, with religious associations derived from an etymological root in old English and Latin, roughly translated into a fountain, a spring, or a source. Banner subsequently began amassing images of baptismal and holy water fonts from churches around the world. Assembled in its entirety for the first time here Banner has presented the full spectrum of her collection in this aptly named Font Book. Resembling something of a supply catalog for the devoted this compendium presents every baptismal font configuration imaginable, along with accompanying church names and location specs. The word font points as much to a conceptual social contract as it does to a physical object, and Font Book, in utilizing the noun's connotation as both textual building block and ritualistic vessel for purification, succeeds in taking us beyond the ordinary into realms more indeterminate"--From www.bywaterbros.com (viewed 19 September 2016).
650 0 $aArtists' books$zGreat Britain$vSpecimens.
650 0 $aFonts$vPictorial works.
600 10 $aBanner, Fiona$vCatalogs.
650 6 $aLivres d'artistes$zGrande-Bretagne.
600 17 $aBanner, Fiona.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00407631
650 7 $aArtists' books.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00817660
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
700 1 $aBywater, Roger,$eeditor.
700 1 $aShier, Reid,$d1963-$eeditor.
710 2 $aPresentation House Gallery,$epublisher.
710 2 $aBywater Bros. Editions (Toronto, Ont.),$epublisher.
830 0 $aLynn Valley ;$v11.
852 00 $bgax$hN7433.4.B355$iF65 2016g