{"id":2931,"date":"2015-12-02T19:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2015-12-02T19:01:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:01:17","slug":"artists-book-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2015\/12\/02\/artists-book-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists’ Book Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Go Ahead, Judge a Book by Its Cover<\/h1>\n

Four of the best contemporary bookbinders employ centuries-old techniques to create enduring works of art.<\/p>\n

Dec. 2, 2015, The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n

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Seen above: \u00a0\u2018I start by reading the book at least once to get into the energy,\u2019 says 63-year-old Jack Fitterer, a calligrapher and printer who has been binding books since 1983.\u00a0 Based in the Adirondacks, Fitterer bound William Butler Yeats\u2019s Irish Fairy & Folk Tales<\/em> in goat and calf leather.\u00a0 The cover features the face of a wailing banshee\u2014the harbinger of death in Irish mythology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Irish Fairy & Folk Tales, by W.B. Yeats (private collection), bound by Jack Fitterer, fittererbookbinding.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Photography by Nicholas Alan Cope for WSJ. Magazine, Prop Styling by Summer Moore.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go Ahead, Judge a Book by Its Cover Four of the best contemporary bookbinders employ centuries-old techniques to create enduring works of art. Dec. 2, 2015, The Wall Street Journal Slide Show Seen above: \u00a0\u2018I start by reading the book at least once to get into the energy,\u2019 says 63-year-old Jack Fitterer, a calligrapher and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news","7":"category-books"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}