• artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 25 x 18.5 cm.
  • 58 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Welcome Home Lovebirds : Poems & Drawings by Jim Dine

[First Edition]

Jim Dine

description

A small-scale anthology of poems and drawings by the American artist Jim Dine. "The work of Jim Dine is noteworthy for the extent which he has explored successfully not only many aspects of one art form, but different art forms themselves - painting, sculpture, book & poster design, prints, theatre, music & poetry. This is his first collection of poems & he says of it: 'I started to write some of these poems in Ithaca, New York in 1967 but most were written in London in 1968. Ive [sic] written them because I have feelings and wishes that cant [sic] be said in pictures and because my friends have shown me that I can trust words.' The poems in 'welcome home lovebirds,' like his paintings & prints, are self-exploratory, highly personal, expressive of the oblique quality of encounter with experience & emotion almost before it materialises. Also about very concrete things like memory, friends, family (my son/spit on me/this morning). He has taken a stand outside the narrative wrangle, which is also characteristic of the poems of other painters - Picasso, Schwitters, Giacometti, et al. Delighting the eye while directing a beam of surreal truth onto the inner eye which the mandarin stylists are only now beginning to conjugate. Here they are as natural as pink lips. On the other hand, as symbolic as the heart shape, immediately recognisable, evoking an instant response. The drawings in this volume came later - the painter cheek in jowl with the poet." -- from inside of front wrapper. Printed in black-and-white.

London, United Kingdom: Trigram Press,
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