The Blues and Jives of Dr. Hepcat
by Alan Govenar
About
Details: Arcadian Press (Caren Heft), Racine, Wisconsin, 1994
Letterpress on Root River Mill abaca papers; sewn binding; book 7” x 18” x 1”, case closed. Encased in a box, includes a tape and a replica of the original pamphlet published by Lavada Durst on jive talk.
Edition: 75
Encased in a drop spine box, the book includes a tape of Levada Durst playing stride piano and a replica of the original pamphlet published by Lavada Durst on jive talk. Durst was the first (probably) African-American disc jockey in the U.S. (Austin, Texas, KVET, late 1940s, early 1950s). He played jazz and talked jive on his program. To enlighten the uncool, he published a pamphlet of jive terms and suggested usage.
The Book Arts of Alan Govenar and Caren Heft are featured in the following public collections:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, John M. Flaxman Memorial Library, Chicago, Illinois
James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archive, Virginia Commnwealth University, Richmond,Virginia
Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
Anne Bromer Books, Boston, Massachusetts
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Cedar Valley College, Dallas, Texas
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
African American Museum, Dallas, Texas
Musée de L’Erotisme, Paris, France
Wustum Museum Artists Book Archive, Racine, Wisconsin
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Los Angeles, California
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland,California
Art of the Book Collection, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
The Jaffee Collection, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
University of Milkwaukee, Milkwaukee, Wisconsin
Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Henry Buhl Foundation, New York, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
