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Ode to a grand staircase (for four hands)

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Issued
  • 2001
Description
  • Signed by the artists
  • Ode to a Grand Staircase (for four hands) is based on composer Erik Satie's The March of the Grand Staircase (1914) and it's silent libretto-- musical notes that Satie forbade to be read aloud. The book is housed in a red, cloth covered box with a magnetic closure. The inside back of the case lists facts about Satie. The french-door structure of the book has a central cutouts, so that each page reveals something of the pages to come. Each of the two spines is made up of a shallow accordion fold, with pages glued to the folds in the manner of a flag book. When the covers are pulle out the pages stand out immitating the form of a staircase. When fully extended and viewed from above, the staircase/ piano key motif is further apparent.
Description of Item
  • Ode to a Grand Staircase (For Four Hands) is a visual dialog created by Julie Chen and Barbara Tetenbaum, who found their inspiration in the work of composer Erik Satie. The text is derived from the musical directives and silent librettos which accompanied his scores. Thanks to Anna Sacramento for production assistance and to Claudia Wober for the translation. We dedicate this book to the memory of two men, Peter Chen and David Tetenbaum, whose lives inspired the music in our own.
  • The story in this book comes from The March of the Grand Staircase, composed by Erik Satie in 1914
Mode of Issuance
  • Editioned
  • monographs
Subject
Work Type
State / Edition
  • No. 52 in an edition of 100
Technique
  • Adhesive binding
  • Codex
  • Photography
  • Stitched binding
  • Handwriting
Measurements
  • 19 x 97 cm. folded to 19 x 17 cm
Identifier
  • Chen_Odet_02
Item Locator
  • N7433.4.C55 O34 2001
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Conversion
  • Photographed with a Canon 30d with a 24-105 IS L lens in Raw file format. In Photoshop CS3, edited for color and contrast using layers and curves adjustments and saved out as a tiff file. JPEG2000 created with CONTENTdm during upload process at a 10:1 lossy compression.
Modified
  • 08/09/2023
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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Chen, Julie http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94029031
2 Tetenbaum, Barbara http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86026075
3 Satie, Erik, 1866-1925 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79139256
4 Adaptations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001031128
5 Satie, Erik, 1866-1925 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79139256
6 folded books http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300200572
7 Flag book http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/workType/Flagbook
8 French door books http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/workType/Frenchdoorbooks
9 University of Oregon. Design Library http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017087491
10 Triangular Press http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99017813
11 Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
12 Berkeley >> Alameda County >> California >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5327684/
13 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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