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Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect - Paul Valéry by Holly Downing

Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect - Paul Valéry by Holly Downing

Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect - Paul Valéry

Holly Downing

Title

Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect - Paul Valéry

 
Artist

Holly Downing

  1948 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
2009  
Technique
mezzotints, bound in hardcover book enclosed in clamshell box 
Image Size
6 7/8 x 4 15/16" platemarks; book: 11-5/8 x 9-1/4 x 3/8" 
Signature
pencil, on colophon 
Edition Size
2 of 35  
Annotations
book binder's signature on colophon; pencil editioned on colophon 
Reference
 
Paper
cream Rives BFK 
State
published 
Publisher
artist and Jack Stauffacher 
Inventory ID
HD230 
Price
SOLD
Description

A livre d'artiste with an excerpt from poet Paul Valery's (French: 1871 - 1945) Dialogues: Eupalinos, or the Architect. From the colophon:

Thirty-five books printed on Rives BFK. The first five are not available for sale. Images by Holly Downing are mezzotint engravings of Montecastello di Vibio e Perugia, Umbria. Printed by Downing and Kathleen Watson at the artist's studio, Sebastopol, California. Handset Meridien types by Jack Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Binding by Foolscap Press, Santa Cruz, California.

We wish to express our gratitude for support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago. Also to Princeton University Press for permission to reprint the excerpt from the Pantheon Books edition of Paul Valery's Dialogues; Eupalinos, or the Architect. Translated by William McCausland Stewart.