Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect by Holly Downing

Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect by Holly Downing

Arch - Eupalinos, or the Architect

Holly Downing

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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.

 
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