Accession number
PML 199158
Creator
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973, author.
Published
[California?] : [The artists], 2006.
Credit line
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.
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.
Description
1 volume : color illustrations ; 47 x 37 cm
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.
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.
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