Necklace of Tongues
Alice Maher, Artist’s Book
Cover image: Necklaces of Tongues (2000), lamb’s tongues, rope
Published Spring 2001
660 Copies
46 Pages
Hardcover book
ISBN: 0-906630-11-8
Printed offset and letterpress on Cartiera di Cordenons Caneletto paper.
Digital formatting of colour work Joe Kenny, Fethard .
These texts and images are taken from notebooks and sketchbooks 1991–2000 with the exception of Continuous Drawing II, 2000, Mantle, 2000 and Gorget 2000, courtesy Nolan Eckman Gallery, New York, Leaking Head, 2001, together with the title work Necklace of Tongues, 2000.
The endpapers are taken from the name-panels of family tombs m Munster and Leinster written by the artist, with her left hand.
