{"id":4550,"date":"2013-02-25T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:28:41","slug":"book-artist-of-the-month-dianna-frid-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/25\/book-artist-of-the-month-dianna-frid-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Artist of the Month: Dianna Frid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 1572, astronomer and alchemist\u00a0Tycho Brahe<\/a>\u00a0observed an incredibly bright star within the Cassiopeia constellation. A few months later the star disappears and Brahe publishes a small book in 1573, coining the phrase nova for a new star. We now understand this term as a supernova or the death of star. In 2009, Dianna Frid<\/a> created this artist book\u00a0Stardeath<\/em> out of canvas and silk. The geometric layout of each page is embroidered with floss, additional details are added with aluminum foil and cellophane.<\/p>\n

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In 1572, astronomer and alchemist\u00a0Tycho Brahe\u00a0observed an incredibly bright star within the Cassiopeia constellation. A few months later the star disappears and Brahe publishes a small book in 1573, coining the phrase nova for a new star. We now understand this term as a supernova or the death of star. In 2009, Dianna Frid created […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[677,681],"tags":[680,678,739,575,43,738,741,740],"class_list":["post-4550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-artist-of-the-month","category-feature-artist-book-of-the-week","tag-artist-book","tag-book-art","tag-cloth","tag-dianna-frid","tag-embroidery","tag-stardeath","tag-supernova","tag-tycho-brahe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-1bo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4213,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/book-artist-of-the-month-dianna-frid\/","url_meta":{"origin":4550,"position":0},"title":"Book Artist of the Month: Dianna Frid","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"February 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The artist book Just Wait and See\u00a0was my first exposure to Dianna Frid's work, which is housed in the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 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