Screenprint depicting 14 book spines based on the "Human Behavior" series published by TIME-LIFE BOOKS with gold foil text. The original book spines were scanned, manipulated by the artist removing the text, separated and printed in C/M/Y/K. The text was recreated in a similar font eliminating the original's texture and screenprinted using acrylic adhesive onto which gold hot stamping foil was applied.

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Human Behavior, 2015

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Title
Human Behavior
Artist Life
American, born 1969
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2020.85.133
Provenance
Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis (publisher); sold to MIA, 2020.
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Screenprint depicting 14 book spines based on the "Human Behavior" series published by TIME-LIFE BOOKS with gold foil text. The original book spines were scanned, manipulated by the artist removing the text, separated and printed in C/M/Y/K. The text was recreated in a similar font eliminating the original's texture and screenprinted using acrylic adhesive onto which gold hot stamping foil was applied.

Copyright © Mungo Thomson, published by Highpoint Editions