Alphabeta Concertina (B25)
Catalogue Record
Collection
Maker
Ronald King
Title
Alphabeta Concertina
Made in
Guildford
Date
1983
Description
Book with red cover design, folded text block with 26 pop-up letters of the alphabet on cream coloured paper.
Materials and techniques
French-fold alphabet book without text, made up of 26 pop-out capital letter forms cut and creased onto 100 gsm Heritage book paper from two A1 sheets glued to silk-screened Heritage museum boards.
Dimensions
length: 16.3cm
width: 10.9cm
depth: 2.2cm
Object number
B25
Category
Maker's statement
I have been working intermittently on the idea of a simple Alphabet pop-up book for some years. The first actual alphabet forms came with an alphabet poem written by Roy Fisher "Scenes from the Alphabet" in which I used A, B & C down the "gutter" of a central spread on "french folded section". The forms are basically those used in Alphabeta Concertina. The problem in designing the book was in giving each letter one page without having a hole and at the same time making it compact enough not to stretch out to 6 metres.
