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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Das Gasthaus zum blasenden Wal The Spouter-Inn, Die Weiße des Wales The Whiteness of the Whale Maximilian-Gesellschaft e.V.; Hamburg, Germany; 2002 Author: Herman Melville Illustrator: Michael Huth Printer: instructors at Darmstadt Technical University Binder: Gert Hoffrath, Rossdorf (near Darmstadt) Contact: www.maximillian-gesellschaft.de Edition of 800, 98 pages with ten double-page linoleum block prints. Text letterpress printed on Zerkall-Bëtten. Half parchment cover from a design by Michael Huth. Two chapters excerpted from Melville's book in the original American English and in a German translation by Richard Mummendey. The linoleum block prints contrast with the "thoroughly besmoked oil-painting" hanging in the Spouter-Inn and with the whiteness of the whale's skin. The transparent long fiber paper on which the graphics are printed invites the reader to make playful combinations by overlaying the pages. The Maximilian Society, which began in 1911 in Berlin and was newly founded in Hamburg in 1946, is considered among the most signficant bibliophilic organizations in Germany. In the tradition of the great English and French bibliophilic societies, it has cultivated the book for book lovers in a lasting way. The society aims to represent and promote both old and new book art with its publications and events. | |||
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