El mar de Isla Negra = The sea of Isla Negra / Pablo Neruda, poemas/poems ; Manuel Neri, dibujos/drawings ; Thomas Ingmire, caligrafía/calligraphy ; Mary Julia Klimenko, introducción/introduction.
Accession number:
PML 199158
Published:
[California?] : [The artists], 2006.
Description:
1 volume : color illustrations ; 47 x 37 cm
Credit:
Gift of Anne Kohs, 2024.
Notes:
Parallel texts in English and Spanish.
Poems translated into English by Dennis Maloney and Clark Zlotchew, Alastair Reid, and Margaret Sayers Peden; Klimenko's introduction translated into Spanish by Jaime Moreno Villarreal.
Calligraphy and illumination chiefly in black, blue, and gold.
Includes biographies of the collaborators.
Binding:
Full blue goatskin leather hand tooled and stamped in gold and palladium leaf with multi-color leather onlays comprising letterforms; issued in blue Japanese cloth-covered clamshell box with leather spine label stamped with multi-color lettering. Designed by Daniel E. Kelm and executed by Kelm, Kylin Lee, and others at Wide Awake Garage, Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Variant Title:
Sea of Isla Negra
Inscriptions/Markings:
Signed by Neri, Kliminko, Ingmire, and Kelm in the colophon, as issued.
Summary:
Unique artist's book featuring four poems by Neruda; with 9 original drawings from Manuel Neri's Lucca series mounted to leaves, created by the artist in 1983 using charcoal, water-based pigments, graphite, oil-paint stick, and elements of collage; the handwritten text inscribed and illuminated throughout by Thomas Ingmire.
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