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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.26
EAN num: 9780870707049
ISBN number: 0870707043
Label: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 56
Printing Date: October 15, 2005
Publishing house: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Release Date: October 15, 2005
Sale Popularity Level: 515164
Studio: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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New York artist Vija Celmins has made many images of the night sky--paintings, drawings, and prints of gorgeous richness. In The Stars she and her collaborator, the essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger, devote an artist's book to the theme. Celmins created three celestial prints for the project, which she also designed. One print, inspired by the worn binding of an early 20th-century Japanese book, becomes the volume's mottled deep-blue cover; the second and third prints are images of the night sky, one of them negative--dark stars on a pale ground. For the text, Weinberger assembled a catalogue of descriptions of the stars drawn from around the world, and from an array of historical, literary, and anthropological sources. This mythopoetic charting of the night sky evokes the vastness of the human imagination's response to a space itself vast and unknowable. Appearing in English and also in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, and Maori, the text supplements Celmins's images visually as well as verbally. The Stars was originally a limited-edition livre d'artiste published this year by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art. Paperback, 7.25 x 11 in./48 pgs / 3 color.
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