Collation: Five signatures in wrap-around folder Binding: Box 263 x 160 x 112mm Inscription: Signed by the artist Edition: #4/50
Publisher: Big Jump Press
Additional notes: Book in five separate signatures in wrap-around folder, each with a coloured illustration.
This rests on top of a glass-topped container with concrete examples of the shapes.
From the colophon: The Radiant Republic is built entirely out of language found in Plato’s Republic and Le Corbusier’s The Radiant City. In these texts, separated by more than two thousand years, Plato and Le Corbusier each describe a city plan designed to provide a framework for morality and ethics. The Radiant Republic was completed in 2019 in an edition of fifty copies. The text was digitally set in Baskerville and printed from polymer plates. Imagery was printed from polymer plates and linoleum in combination with pressure printing. Materials include handmade Belgian flax paper from the Morgan Conservatory, Rives Heavyweight Buff, Baltic birch plywood cut by Sarah Pike at Freefall Laser, cement, and glass. The epigraph for this book is an excerpt from Mostafavi and Leatherbarrow’s On Weathering: the Life of Buildings in Time.