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The Derivation of the Laws An illustrated limited edition honoring George Boole Artist's Statement in "The Derivation of the Laws. . ." The Statement was published in the limited edition
of George Boole's Derivation of the Laws� which is Chapter III,� from
Boole's classic work: An Investigation of the Laws of Thought..
(Macmillan, 1854). The illustrations were generated with Verostko's software,
Hodos. The limited edition of 125 copies, bound in leather, was pulled by hand
at the St. Sebastian Press in Minneapolis in 1990. Each copy has original, "one
of a kind", tipped in front and end pieces which were plotter drawn in the
artist's studio. The work was also issued in paperback, in February 1991 (ISBN
1-879508-07-9). The press is no longer active. The artist retains a limited
number of copies of each edition.
For this project the "tipped in"� front and end pieces were pen-plotted in an algorithmic serial edition. Each� drawing, "one of a kind", was drawn or brushed, stroke for stroke� with a pen plotter driven by� the artist's software.� Two families of form, 125 originals in each,� introduce a radically new procedure that Roger Malina has referred to as� "post mechanical" reproduction. This� form-generating procedure� has already impacted the printing industry and will have a profound impact on the graphic arts in the 21st Century. This edition (1990) may be the first instance where an algorithmic improvisational series of original drawings was created for a bound� limited edition.
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