92 playing with pop-ups
Carol Barton Carol Barton’s design of books and sculptural pop-up forms grows out of a love of creative play. Barton is a book artist, curator, and teacher who has published her own artist’s editions as well as three award-winning books on how to make pop-ups, The Pocket Paper Engineer: How to Make Pop-Ups Step-by-Step, Volumes 1, 2, and 3. She has organized local and national shows and her work is exhibited internationally. She is on the faculty at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.
Title: Home Dreams (page 1), 1997 Description: Acrylic, laser printing, pop-ups, 6" µ 4" µ 44" (15.2 µ 10.2 µ 111.8 cm).
Title: Five Luminous Towers, A Book to be Read in the Dark, 2001 Description: Offset lithography, batteries, light, fiber-optic filament, 111⁄2" µ 71⁄2" µ 3" (29.2 µ 20 µ 7.6 cm). Photos: Carol Barton
Title: Instructions for Assembly, 2003 Description: Ink-jet printing, 7" µ 25⁄8" µ 70" (17.8 µ 6.7 µ 177.8 cm).
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