Greetings! The Legacy Press is pleased to announce an exciting new publication: *Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp* by Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour (https://www.thelegacypress.com/ and https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/141101). This landmark book profiles an artistic movement that has operated largely outside the mainstream art world, and it serves as both an overdue history and an up-close look at the range, versatility, and brilliance of art created with colored paper pulp. Although handmade papers have been employed by artists for centuries, the use of handmade paper and colored paper pulp as an integral element in creating art – as opposed to serving only as the surface on which art is created – has seen remarkable development over the last 70 years. As early practitioners like Douglas Morse Howell, Laurence Barker, and Kenneth Tyler mapped out new directions in using colored paper pulp, their work inspired the careers of generations of artists who have taken this medium in fresh and unexpected directions. This foundational book – the first of its kind – features 73 artist innovators whose work, grounded in the common medium of paper and pulp, takes flight through an array of applications, modalities, and techniques, from the pictorial to the structural, representational to abstract, two- and three-dimensional, spanning the meditative to the mercurial. Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp introduces and expands the medium to artists, curators, collectors, art historians, and the broader public as it highlights the dynamic scope and inventiveness of today’s leading practitioners. 440 pages • 342 full-colored images • hardcover, sewn 9781940965260 • $75.00 ________________________________________ In addition to *Radical Paper*, The Legacy Press recently published two books on bookbinding, both printed and available in the US and the UK; the versions are identical. Islamic Bookbinding revealed through the lens of the Montefiascone Conservation Project Essayists include Cheryl Porter, Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, Alison Ohta, Kristine Rose-Beers, Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thomson, and Marco Di Bella; edited by Julia Miller. 272 pages • 220 full-color illustrations • softcover USA: $55.00 • ISBN 9781940965253 Order through Oak Knoll Books: https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/140983 ************* UK: £45.00 • ISBN 9781940965291 Order through Archetype Publications: https://archetype.co.uk/ ________________________________________ Fine Bookbinding : a technical guide by Jen Lindsay This is the 2nd edition (revised) of this popular, long out-of-print book by the highly respected bookbinder, scholar, and teacher. “First, a cut to the chase: if you are interested in the process of creating a full leather binding, no matter your level of skill or experience, buy this book…. A fine binding is not a beginner’s structure. But in her introduction, Lindsay suggests to novices, “why wait?,” that “making a fine binding is a good education in observation, attention to detail, and meticulous workmanship: all essential wherever you think your real interest lies – repair and conservation, edition binding, artists’ books, jobbing binding, box making or even fine binding ... if you can make a fine binding, you will have learned much more than just that.” (Review of 1st edition.) Karen Hanmer, The Bonefolder (Spring 2010). 216 pages • 266 illustrations • hardcover, sewn USA: $70.00 • ISBN 9781940965277 Order through Oak Knoll Books: https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/141072 ************* UK: £55.00 • ISBN 9781940965307 Order through J Hewit & Sons Ltd.: https://www.hewit.com/news/?year=2024&month=july ________________________________________ Cheers, Cathy -- The Legacy Press Cathleen A. Baker 1513 Long Meadow Trl Ann Arbor MI 48108-9633 "All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention" —Rudolf Arnheim www.thelegacypress.com | thelegacypress@gmail.com Publishing award-winning books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts.