Bizzare Films by Press Arts Staff - 1969

University of Utah:: Red Butte Press,, 2011.. Edition of 200. 6 x 9"; 32 pages. Letterpress printed imagery and text from photopolymer plates. Printed on Rives Heavyweight and BFK papers. W-fold pamphlet binding. This is the first Book Arts Program imprint from Red Butte Press.  Information from the book's introductory essay by Matthew Basso and Andrew Farnsworth: Wo/Men at Work is one part of a major and successful rescue operation. In 1940 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project "a left-leaning critic" Harold Rosenberg assembled thirty-four pieces of writing that were first-hand reports about work in the US. The title he gave the collection – Men at Work – is as dated as it is accurate in reflecting the project's – and probably the time's – slant. The collection made it to the copy editing stage. But World War II and cutbacks to FWP intervened, and Men at Work never made it to the printers. For the next seven decades the… Read More