Chris Cook: Black Lives Matter

 "Black Lives Matter" is 364 pages, trim size of 11.5 x 13.6 inches, with 159 plates. The text is printed on 200gsm Magno Satin coated stock. The endpapers are 170gsm Sirio black uncoated stock. "Black Lives Matter" is Smyth-sewn, with endpapers, hardbound with a square spine, with 4mm board covered with Brillianta cloth, with one-color foil stamping on the front and spine, head and tail bands, and jacketing with French folds. The slipcase is made of a 3.75mm board covered with Brillianta cloth, lined with 120gsm black Sirio uncoated stock, with one-color foil on the front and spine.

 

This publication is a closed, 250 limited edition that was published by Valentine New York Publishing, a division of Valentine New York. The monograph has been purchased by the following institutions:

 

Bethlehem Moravian College, St. Elizabeth Jamaica

Bliss Institute, Belize City, Belize

British Library, North American Collections, United  Kingdom

Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library at Medgar Evers College

Clark-Atlanta University

Cornell University Library,  Rare and Manuscript Collections

Duke University's Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Florida International University, Steven and Dorothea Green Library

Georgetown University, Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library

Hampton College, St. Elizabeth Jamaica

Kingston College, Jamaica

Munro College, St. Elizabeth Jamaica 

Morehouse College

National Gallery of Art Library, Washington DC 

National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian

Newark Public Library, Special Collections

New York University, Bobst Tamiment, Main Collection

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria

Pratt Institute, Special Collections

Princeton University, Marquand Library

School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University Special Collections

Spelman College

Studio Museum in Harlem

The City College of New York, Morris Raphael Cohen Library

The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Thomas J. Watson Library

The Ohio State University, Thompson Special Collections Rare Books

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The University of British Columbia Library, Canada

The University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection

The University of Pretoria, South Africa

The University of Toronto, Fisher Library, Canada

The University of Washington, Special Collections

The Whitney Museum of American Art— Frances Mulhall Achilles Library

University of Delaware Library, Special Collections

University of Technology, Jamaica

University of the Virgin Islands, Special Collections 

University of the West Indies, Roseau Dominica

University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - Special Collections

Wilmer Jennings Gallery, Kenkeleba House

Yale University, Haas Arts Library - Special Collections

 

Price available upon request by emailing us at pr@welancoragallery.com. 

 

If you would like to read more on this publication, please visit Chris Cook's website here.