Books from the exhibition
Exhibition Sponsors
Bartkowiak's Best: Book Art from the Hamburg Archives
In the SFCB Gallery Jan 26-Apr 27, 2007
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Ishtar's Underworld Journey University of Arts Bremen ; Bremen, Germany ; 1989 Author: a 4,000 year old myth from Akkadia in a new translation by Egbert Richter-Ushanas Illustrator/Artist: Antje Möbius Printer: Antje Möbius/Hans Graf Binder: Antje Möbius/Kurt Nieth Contact: www.farbdesign.de Concertina, 36 text plates and 36 illustration plates. Linocut illustrations printed on a hand press, text printed offset in Futura on Schneidersöhne Munken Lynx paper. Edition of 50. Ishtar's journey into the underworld is on the one hand carried out vertically, between heaven and earth, the realm in-between and the underworld - and at the same time horizontally, in the sequences of the scenes. The figures of the myth are reduced to their subjective characteristic powers which find their visual counterparts in individual colors/archetypes. Antje Möbius, book artist and designer, makes communication — the dialogue of painting and text — the subject of her work. Myth, poetry and abstract texts become both intellectual and emotional experiences. | |||
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