Alex Katz, Robert Creeley, Peter Blum Edition, Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions, Carol Sturm
Edges
1996
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Alex Katz, Robert Creeley, Peter Blum Edition, Simmelink/Sukimoto Editions, Carol Sturm
Edges
1996
Physical Qualities
Bound volume with etchings and letterpress, Book: 385 x 326 x 18 mm. (15 3/16 x 12 13/16 x 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 380 x 318 mm. (14 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Print & Drawing Society Fund, with proceeds derived from the 1998 Contemporary Print Fair
Object Number
1998.263
In this elegant book, stanzas from Robert Creeley’s poem Edges harmonize with Katz’s minimal and linear imagery, here suggestive both of a coastline or the silhouette of trees against the sky. Creeley collaborated on more than 40 projects with visual artists over the course of his long career, from his early endeavors at Black Mountain College in the 1950s to his tenure teaching in the prestigious poetry program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Creeley found that such interdisciplinary dialogues extended, in the words of one critic, “the context of his work” and increased “the energy level of the words, both as physical objects and as potentially meaningful associations.”
Blumarts, New York (Peter Blum Editions)
A Golden Anniversary: Celebrating 50 Years of the Print, Drawing and Photograph Society
Book: Katz, Alex and Robert Creeley. Edges, Peter Blum Edition, 1999. Extensive bibliography from Alex Katz website in object file.
Inscribed: Colophon signed: XXVII/XXX; Robert Creeley // Alex Katz 1997