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Ode aan de Kolossale Zon
Ode to the Colossal Sun

Item date(s): 2003

Helga Kos  - (book artist)
Ned Rorem  - (poems by)


Inscription: Signed by the artist.
Edition: #129/288


Place publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Publisher: Wendingen

Additional notes:
Last Poems of Wallace Stevens. With CD of the song cycle, performed by the Dutch chamber group Wendingen, forms part of Volume I.

Een Muziekcompositie van Ned Rorem.

Co-published by Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Three parts each bound in stiff card wrappers, connected with Velcro. In wrap-around box with rubber ties.

Printed at the Rijksakademie van Beelende Kunst. Helga Kos explains her production as 'a third, visual stratum to Steven's poems and Rorem's music.'

Exhibition notes:
Exhibition: ‘Celebrating one hundred years: The rise and development of the artists book over the last 100 years.’, Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts, Johannesburg. April 1st, 2022, to June 3rd 2022.

Ref: GB/11357



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