CORONATION
CORONATION
Date
2014
Media
Hand-painting, Inkjet, Marker pen
Paper
Moab Entrada paper
Binding
Coptic
Pages
32
Collection
Collection Development, Uncategorized, Unique BooksView Collectors
Library of Congress (LoC)
Stanford University
The University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Art Museum (WAM), Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts
University of California, Berkeley (UCB), The Bancroft Library
Coronation is a unique artist book by collaborating artists Dana Smith and Cuba. With his unique hand-painted inventive calligraphy, CUBA (AKA Clarence Robbs, USA, b. 1964, d. 2021), the veteran San Fransisco street graffiti artist, inscribed the text of Marshall Weber’s poem, while working directly over a series of Dana’s photo collages.
Photo collage, digital printing by Dana Smith
Painted calligraphy by Cuba
Coptic binding, book design by Dana Smith
Poem by Marshall Weber
Printed on Moab Entrada Rag paper with Epson pigment inks. Digitally printed canvas-covered board with Coptic sewn binding. 10″ x 26.5″, 32 pages, variant edition of