Robin
Price, Printer & Publisher 860.344.8644 |
Altar
Book for Gorecki
opens to 12 x 19 inches; six panels plus colophon; edition of 60 [1996] |
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A
tribute to Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, the “Symphony
of Sorrowful Songs.” Lyrics printed in Polish, from
calligraphy by Paul Shaw, and in English, with Stephenson
Blake Perpetua and Guild Samson uncial types. Illustrated
with reproductions from a seventeenth-century ornithology,
and an abstract woodcut by Keiji Shinohara (monoprinted by
Robin Price); hand-stained and letterpress-printed paper
laminated onto colored wood boards. The structure is a triptych
hinged with dyed vellum, housed in a custom-made cherry box
by master woodworker Franklin Nichols.
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