Accession number
PML 129780
Creator
Uecker, Günther, 1930-.
Published
[Mainz] : Dorothea van der Koelen ; [Paris] : Edouard Weiss, [2002].
Credit line
Gift; Werner H. Kramarsky; 2006.
Notes
Limited ed. of 120 copies.
Library has no. 110.
Preface by Christoph Brockhaus; German translations by Gaby Gappmayr.
Printed text in ancient scripts: Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Chinese pictographs, Greek, Tibetan, Hebrew, etc., from photographs of originals in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the British Library, the Louvre, and the Schøyen Collection. German translations on the verso of these pages. Interspersed are twelve prints embossed in blind by Uecker, all signed, numbered, and dated. (Taken in part from catalogue entry of the Bibliothèque Nationale.)
Prints made in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Library has no. 110.
Preface by Christoph Brockhaus; German translations by Gaby Gappmayr.
Printed text in ancient scripts: Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Chinese pictographs, Greek, Tibetan, Hebrew, etc., from photographs of originals in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the British Library, the Louvre, and the Schøyen Collection. German translations on the verso of these pages. Interspersed are twelve prints embossed in blind by Uecker, all signed, numbered, and dated. (Taken in part from catalogue entry of the Bibliothèque Nationale.)
Prints made in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Description
Unpaged (84 p.) : ill. ; 72 cm.
Provenance
Werner H. Kramarsky.
Binding
Unbound; in a portfolio of embossed white paper over boards; suede spine stamped black and red. In a lucite slipcase.
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