I love everything about Paul Peter Piech Nearly thirty years after his death, the world of anti-establishment and protest art is finally catching up with his thoughts and ideas. The originality of his work however, remains unique and continues to delight. His daughter Olwen whose Instagram dedication to her dad’s work brings new work almost each day.
With this in mind, I was so excited when I came across his book first published in 1976 Ugly Pieces of Metal. Not only that but Olwen gave her blessing to us reprinted the book in it’s entirety. The money for the sale of the book will go towards the adventure to visit public libraries on the Printing Bike and print bookmarks. The bookmarks tell the stories of people’s connection to a particular library.
The book is beautiful and poetic diatribe about the motor car. Maybe not so much a controversial now, but it certainly was in 1976.
198x142mm landscape, six lino prints by PPP, 16 pages and printed letterpress on Zerkall 170gsm paper, cover is Fenner Colorset 350gsm crimson. It is Singer sewn. Typeset by hand in Montype Joanna.
The book is now available in the website shop and it sold in support of the Press On project
