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Creator:
Ocallaghan, Billy, (Artist)
Title(s):
Birds of America : 2010 supplement.
Additional Title(s):
Birds of America: redacted
Edition:
Pocket edition 2011.
Published/Created:
[San Francisco] : [Billy O'Callaghan], 2011.
Physical Description:
[20 pages] : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.4.O23 B57 2010a+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mark Aronson in memory of Gladys Glover
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Limited edition of 500 copies.
Tête-bêche format. Two titles, bound head-to-toe, in one paper cover. Titles transcribed from both "front" covers.
Issued in a manila folder, with label reading "Studio edition- full photographic color digital pigment print on super heavy weight matte paper, bound with double stick tape, archival staples, stainless steel & magic."
An "update" to Audubon's Birds of America; the supplement features illustrations of cultural "birds," such as flipping the bird, hand turkey, rubber ducky, Big Bird, Tweety Bird, etc. The redacted version shows blacked-out images of six birds that have become extinct.
Subject Terms:
Artists' books -- United States.
Audubon, John James, 1785–1851. Birds of America.
Birds -- United States.
Extinct birds -- North America.
Form/Genre:
Tête-bêche binding.
Artist's books.
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