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Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect by Holly Downing
Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect
Holly Downing
Title
Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect
Artist
Holly Downing
1948 - PRESENT (biography)Year
2009
Technique
handbound book of 5 mezzotint plates and accompanying text
Image Size
6 15/16 x 4 15/16" platemarks; 10-5/8 x 9-5/16" book size
Signature
signed on colophon by artist and typographer
Edition Size
18 of 35
Annotations
pencil editioned on colophon
Reference
Paper
cream Rives BFK
State
published
Publisher
the artist and Jack Stauffacher
Inventory ID
HD179
Price
$2,000.00
Description
The text is an excerpt from Paul Valéry's 'Dialogues: Eupalinos, or the Atchitect', Princeton University Press, translated by William McCausland Stewart; handset in Meridien types by Jack Stauffacher.
Paul Valéry wrote Eupalinos in 1922 and it explores "the relationships of life and death, light and darkness, movement and stasis, which compose life itself." according to the Poetry Foundation. These same relationships are explored by Downing through the evocative medium of mezzotint and the forms of arches.