Der Archipelagus by Holderlin, Friedrich - 1978

laOficina, 2012. Hardcover. New. Spanish language. 8.58x6.22x0.63 inches.

California: Ettan Press, 1978. Limited Editoin. Hard Cover. Fine binding. Quarto; in white laid paper-boards embossed with an "H" to the center of the upper board; and with the spine lettered in black; with plates hand-numbered and signed by the artist; this is number 37 of 90 numbered copies; with acetate wrapper and and a plain, white cardboard sleeve; German text.~~The plates are inspired by the natural world of the Aegean Sea. Fine binding.

California: Ettan Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Mengershausen, Cornelia von. Number 85 of 90 (total edition 100), quarto size, [20] pp., each plate hand-numbered and signed by the artist, in German. Friedrich Hölderlin's (1770-1843) hexameter poem, his longest, comprised of 296 verses. The poem represents through both lamentation and hymnal-like praise the Greek philosophy of "pantheism" or the divine existing in all things; Archipelagus is geographically the Aegean Sea, but for the poet a vessel for revealing divinity in the natural world. The accompanying etchings were made from a combined photogravure aquatint technique; the images at first glance appear to be abstracted landscapes located in or around the Aegean Sea, but a deeper look reveals human features. This layering creates another dimension of meaning to the text, reflecting Hölderlin's intention to both mourn and exalt the ancient world. German artist Cornelia von Mengershausen (b. 1945); in the U.S. her work is… Read More