Nineteen eighty-five : the twelve months

Creator

Hamady, Walter

Date

• 1992

Publisher

Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: The Perishable Press Limited

Summary

• COLOPHON: "BOOK NUMBER 117 (COLOphON) 28.5 x 20 cm (11 1/4 x 7 7/8 in)
• 104 page surfaces, 93 physically activated with printing presses, ink, rubberstamps, pencils, labels, perforation and holographic signatures. The unique Sewn Boards binding -- pay attention to the slinky spine action -- is the design of Gary Frost and performed at BookLab in Austin, Texas and makes its debut with this book. Numerous sans-serif typefaces have been evoked for reasons explained in the progressively modulating text. Lester Dore got most of the type to set and did the keylining in close order with Bob Deering who then acted as interface with the cheerful and highly skilled crew at Litho Productions.
• 1985 -- THE TWELVE MONTHS is really an aleatory extention of Book Number 113 Dieser Rasen Ist Kein Hundeklo, which found its text in a/the streamofconsciousness narrative ouija-written against the random rubberstamping across the top of the January pages in the quite neo-Dada to normal readers, seemed to trigger the untamed imagination of the painter. Eventually this led to the repeat of process against the next and the next month until all twelve had been jetsammed to become lagan transmogrified near Cooksville into these paintings. Further value-added applications were done at or near N42 51' 52.810" W89 47' 50.225" or in SW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of NW 1/4 of Section 22 t.5N., R.6E., 4 PM during a balky spring. The edition of 130 copies has 97 for sale with faithful Standing Order Patrons receiving most-favored terms. Serious inquiries by letter NOT by phone to THE PERISHABLE PRESS LIMITED Post Office Box Seven, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin 53571, The United State of Plutocracy. wshH, 13 April 1992, Thomas Jefferson's Birthday, the 104th day, 13'16" daylight Moon in Leo."
• [handwritten in pencil] "This is one of fifteen special advance copies --- wsh 13 VI 92 Whoops 24 (everybody talking)"