Foolscrap (1973)
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Telfer Stokes
Overview
The artists' books of Telfer Stokes, which he began making in the early seventies, are amazing examples of the possibilities of creating a visual language for the page. In Foolscrap (as in others of his book works), Stokes plays with basic elements of the book and the page - surface, distance, time, movement, and sequence - to create a dazzling combination of effects. Ultimately what he produces is a conceptual narrative, a kind of story about the act of looking.