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0765 — <br/><br/>Walker Anne. Williams William Carlos. The Rewaking. Paris 2002. Unique artist book: Edition 1 of 1. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2". Gouache pastel ink. Painted paper wrappers with paper label on spine. Unfolds to 29". Painted open slipcase.<br/><br/>Anne Walker describes her books as "Folded paintings." These books are designed as continuous accordion-like scrolls each individual page has its own composition but is integrated into the "folded painting" in a progression that slowly changes colors and moods. Most of her books involve poetry by what Walker calls her "living and phantom collaborators."<br/><br/>Anne Walker is a native New Englander who emigrated to France in 1955 after graduating from Smith College. She took up woodcuts in 1956 in Paris and etching and aquatint in 1968. She began making gouache and pastel books in 1989 turning away from printmaking. She has had exhibitions in Belgium Germany Switzerland Sweden and the United States. Walker explains her transition from the precision of printmaking to the more abstract techniques she uses in her gouache and pastel books as a change in her world view. Her initial attraction to printmaking "was a way of creating stability using solid materials that supposed a contained and precise technique that was reassuring in itself. Once released from this need because of being able to accept more or less that the world will always be a fragile place to live in I feel freer and happier with what I am doing now." Many of Walker's books are closely associated with poetry. She has worked with contemporary poets often asking them to hand-letter their poems into her books and she has used poems from late poets such as Emily Dickinson Wallace Stevens Thoreau and William Carlos Williams. If the poet is no longer living or if a contemporary prefers not to write in the book themselves she uses a simple calligraphy so that the writing remains visually neutral. <br/><br/>Reference: The Boston Athenaeum Anne Walker's Painted Books. unknown books