Masks

Masks

Samuel N. Antupit, New York, New York, 1973

Description

By exploring historical origins of marks, from Cleopatra and her cosmetics to the Apollo astronaut helmets, the author demonstrates that masks are ubiquitous social facades that comment upon cultures and often reveal as much as they hide.

Special features: Jacket has die-cut eyes, revealing photograph of eyes on binding front (pasted label).

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1974)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

Credits

Art director/designer
Samuel N. Antupit
Picture editor
Samuel N. Antupit
Author
Jamie Shalleck
Size
8 x 8.5 inches
Pages
180
Quantity printed
edition of 4,500
Price
$12.50
Typeface
Linotype Bodoni Book, 12/16, with display in foundry Thorowgood Italic
Typesetter
Howard O. Bullard, Inc.
Quantity printed
Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method
sheet-fed offset
Paper
Alpine Opaque Vellum (Georgia Pacific), 70 lb., Natural
Paper supplies
Willman Paper Company, Inc.
Binder
Montauk Book Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Binding materials
bound in Columbia Fictionette Orange on 80 pt. binder’s board
Binding method
Smyth sewn, square back
Endpapers
Multicolor Antique (Process materials) Lemon Yellow
Endpaper supplies
Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher
The Viking Press/Subsistence Press
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