Janus Press – Bread and Puppet: The Dream of the Dirty Woman.
(Janus Press) Bread and Puppet: The Dream of the Dirty Woman. (Elke Schumann.) 1980. A sequential wall piece. 10 unnumbered pages. 12.25″ x 11.875″. 4 masonite relief and collagraph illustrations for an ATF rooster decoration on the colophon page. Designed, set and printed by Claire Van Vliet. Title in old brass and wood type and Trump Mediaeval italic, English text in Franklin Gothic, French text in Trump Mediaeval italic; character designations and colophon in Trump Mediaeval Roman. Titles printed in silver and black, English text in brown, French in black. Illustrations printed in white and gray with type decoration in silver. Printed on gray paper with areas of dark gray, white, brown, and yellow pump that become a base for the illustrations. Between Title and Colophon pages are four double sheets; the six sheets are overlapped and attached to form one continuous, accordion-folded sheet (12.25″ x 118.75″). Housed in a dropback box covered and lined with natural linen, with sides of gray linen finish bookcloth. Masonite relief decoration of tree trunks printed in gray on front and back covers. Title printed in gray on spine. Paper made by Claire Van Vliet and Kathryn Clark at Twinrocker, Indiana. Laid into the bottom of the box are two pages of photographs of a performance of the play and a vinyl recording of a performance. No. 46 in an edition of 85 copies. Fine.
A Play in one Act based on a dream of Elka Schumann with a record of the performance. Published with grant assistance from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC.
Related items: Catalogue 37 - Summer 2009, Claire Van Vliet, Janus Press