Pandemic is a diary-like unfolding of the events around the global spread of Covid-19. It chronicles the early days of the virus and the rising count of people who succumbed to it from March 2020 to May 2022, including the lock-down in New York City and Black Lives Matter protests. Materials found around the studio were used for printing, including paper off-cuts and hand set metal type.
Hand written text …
Hester . Emma . Sonia
Joni . Annie . Tracy
A Postmodern Feminist Discourse
Ed. 32, (26 Standard and 6 Deluxe: three each of two designs), 10.5 x 7.75 x 1.75 inches; 300-pages, 2021.
Main text excerpted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” Gustave Flaubert’s “Madam Bovary,” and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment.” Concept, designs, typography, artworks, printing, and publishing by Mindy Belloff, NYC. A 3-year project, the edition includes …
Many thanks to John, Eric and Daniel at FAU’s Jaffe Center for their lovely words and honoring me in their Artist of the Week series. From John Cutrone:
Many thanks to Richard Kopley for his review, “Hawthorne at the Peabody Essex Museum,” just published in Volume 46 of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. Kopley, author of several books and an expert on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne, viewed the exhibition The Creative Legacy of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Phillips Collection, at PEM (September 28, 2019 – March 2020).
He writes, “Belloff’s book is exquisite. Its creation must have been …
CBS This Morning Saturday with reporter Dana Jacobson, did a lovely segment on Mary Katharine Goddard, with historian Martha King, and my re-creation and re-writing of the “Unanimous Declaration of Independence.” Happy Independence Day!
See link below and here’s hoping for a more equitable Union in 2020:
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Update: The segment aired this morning, and I am so pleased that Mary Katharine Goddard is getting recognition. Please see the link here:
https://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs-this-morning-saturday/
Friday‘s socially distancing film shoot w/CBS at the Studio. Tune into CBS This Morning Saturday, July 4th, 7-9am, for Dana Jacobson’s interview with Mindy Belloff and others on Mary Katharine Goddard and The Unanimous Declaration of Independence. #intimapress
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Stand up for your rights!
I printed the rewritten, inclusive edition of the Goddard Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2010, changing “Men” to “People” in two places in the document: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all People are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these Rights, …
Published today about A Golden Thread: The Minotaur – A Contemporary Illumination – a lovely post on the Fine Books & Collections blog. Intima Press Produces Illuminated Letterpress Edition of a Hawthorne Classic By on March 20, 2020: And now, a post totally unrelated to coronavirus, because we need to remember the beautiful things that light up our world: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The Minotaur,” first appeared in
Many thanks to the judges, the Fine Press Book Association, friends and colleagues for their enthusiastic support at the Fair yesterday. I am so pleased to have received this award for “A Golden Thread: The Minotaur.” #intimapress
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See the newest design binding of A Golden Thread: The Minotaur exquisitely bound by Peter Geraty: at the 7th Annual MANHATTAN FINE PRESS BOOK FAIR during
NEW YORK CITY RARE BOOK WEEK
Saturday, March 7, 2020
One Day Only – 10am-5pm
At: 869 Lexington Avenue (Church of St. Vincent Ferrer) at East 66th Street (down the block from the Armory show)…
Union Square, New York, NY 10003
Ph: 1 (917) 412-4134 . IntimaPress@yahoo.com
