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The Departure of the Argonaut

Item date(s): 1986

Francesco Clemente  - (illustrated by)
Alberto Savinio  - (text by)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 650mm
Edition: #161/200


Place publication: London
Publisher: Petersburg Press
Cat. 029 - MPM3
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
The bound book includes five chapters and anoriginal epilogue, fifty double page spreads of text, interwoven with lithographs, 65 x 100 cm, 34 in colour, 16 in black, on Japanese Okawara Kozo paper for both block and binding, and boxed in a beige linen folio (675mm). The pages are bound Japanese style with the fold at the fore edge and each folded page has a liner between the folded page.

The complete text "La partenza dell'argonauta" of Alberto Savinio written in 1917, and translated into English for this publication in 1986 by George Scrivani.

The portfolio of text and image is unbound and boxed with a folded sheet of the Translator's Note laid in.

The pages are not numbered despite the colophon stating they are.

See: A Century of Artists Books by Riva Castleman at p217. Moma.

Illustrated on page 138 of The Best of Both Worlds by Jerry Kelly, Riva Castleman & Anne H. Hoy, Finely Printed Livres d'Artistes 1910-2010, 2010.

Illustrated as item 121 in Artists & Books 1900-Present. Ursus Books, New York, 2014.

Exhibition notes:
Item 029 - MPM3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017



Ref: GB/12583


   


   



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