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Sculpture/Inuit

Design Category
Book design, 1971
Art director/designer
Allan Fleming
Collection
(1972) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The exhibition of masterworks of Eskimo sculpture organized by the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council will be shown in museums and art galleries through the world. The book is intended as a visual recreation of the exhibition, showing each of the pieces on display, with essays providing a background for understanding this art form. The design of the new book was an attempt to create a new classicism around the essential primitivism of the pieces.

Credits
Photographer: Tom Prescott
Cartographer: Geoff Matthews
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Pages: 496
Quantity printed: edition of 35,000
Price: $17.50
Typeface: Linotype Pilgrim, 10/12, with display in Monotype Perpetua
Typesetter: T.H. Best Printing Company, Limited
Printer: Herzig-Somerville, Limited
Printing method: Sheet-fed offset
Paper: Abitibi Britecoat Dull, 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Buntin Reid, Limited
Binder: T.H. Best Printing Company, Limited.
Binding materials: bound in Columbia Fictionette Blue on .070 binder’s board
Binding method: Smythe-sewn, round and backed
Endpapers: Lindenmeyr Multicolor Jet
Endpaper supplies: Whyte Hooke
Jacket: Rolland Imperial Offset Enamel, 80 lb. White
Publisher: University Of Toronto Press, for the Canadian Eskimo Arts Council