Freedom : A Fable / A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times with Illustrations
  • artists' book
  • leatherette covers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • die-cut
  • black-and-white
  • 24 x21 cm.
  • [26] pp.
  • edition size 4000
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0966013905

Freedom : A Fable / A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times with Illustrations

Kara Walker

Freedom : A Fable / A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times with Illustrations

description

An exquisite artists' book designed and written by Kara Walker. Features elaborate, laser-cut, silhouettes of black paper with pop-ups and pull-outs. "A number of elements give this book its character, besides the distinctive writing, drawing, and social vision of its negress Author. Three particularly are noteworthy. All pop-up books rely on skillful paper engineering. David Eisen's training and experience as an architect guided his three-dimensional design. The cutting of paper with a burning laser beam makes possible much more precise and intricate paper cutouts than was formerly possible with mechanical die cutting. Old-time fonts have come much into fashion." -- from book's colophon.

[Santa Monica], [CA]: The Peter Norton Family,
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$4,495.88
Condition:  Used