Another Day in Paradise

Albuquerque: Mark Attwood, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. 1st and only edition: "This book is no. 41 in a limited edition of 50. Printed from linocuts on Rives heavyweight paper, using a Dufa flat-bed offset press." On the next page, preceding the title page: "Another Day in Paradise is a collection of images by a group of people from different countries and backgrounds. Artists, printers, students, curators, a director and a doctor participated. Each person was invited to make a linocut on the theme of 'Another Day in Paradise'. No images were edited. One book was printed for each participant." The book is lg. 8vo, bound in coarse linen with no titles, untrimmed edges. Condition vg+; the binding has been slightly distorted by the laying in of a linocut, described below. No text in the book other than that quoted above.. Attwood, whose blindstamped chop-mark appears on the above-quoted limitation page, was certified a master printer by Albuquerque's Tamarind Institute about this time; he was soon to return to his native South Africa to found the Artists' Press, which arguably has become as important to printmaking in Africa as Tamarind is in the U.S. Famous South African artist Erika Hibbert, currently published there by Attwood, contributes to this book in what may be her first appearance. Also appearing are Rebecca Schnelker, Tamarind curator since 1978 and co-compiler of the Tamarind catalog raisonne; Garo Antreasian, Tamarind's first director; Jeff Ryan, who with Attwood helped invent the technique of dry lithography; Rita Deanin Abbey, author Edward Abbey's second wife, who still exhibits in Santa Fe; Bill Lagattuta, shop manager at Tamarind; Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, a Flathead-Shoshone artist whose work is in much demand; Pawel Frackiewicz, who heads the Academy of Fine Art in Wroclaw, Poland; Marge Devon, a director of Tamarind; Mary Ristow, who had a solo show in 1999; Jose Rodriguez, now a well-known plein-air painter; Valerie Arber, whose work inhabits the Rule Gallery in Denver, and about 20 others. This copy apparently belonged to contributor Martha Slaymaker, who is exhibited in the Albuquerque airport, among many other places, and was a fine artist in many media. Her son now runs the company she founded, Slaymaker Fine Art Ltd. Laid in are 2 extra copies of her litho, and also her original linocut, the piece of linoleum itself. Interestingly, she SIGNED the linoleum, but faintly, so her name cannot be seen on the printed versions.