Dreaming The Gokstadt : Northern Lands and Islands
  • exhibition catalogue
  • cloth boards issued without dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • tipped in image[s]
  • black-and-white
  • 2 vol. : 24.8 x 31.6 cm. (book) ; 25.7 x 32.4 cm (slipcase)
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size unique
  • unsigned and numbered

Dreaming The Gokstadt : Northern Lands and Islands

[Unique maquette for artist's book of same title]

Thomas Joshua Cooper

Dreaming The Gokstadt : Northern Lands and Islands

description

The original maquette for the artist's book / exhibition catalogue "Dreaming The Gokstadt : Northern Lands and Islands" by Thomas Joshua Cooper ultimately published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that began at Graeme Murray, Edinburg, in 1985. This maquette features 25 tipped in silver gelatin photographs, pasted in text blocks, hand sewn covers, a protective overlay cover, and a slipcase hot stamped with title and artist. Includes texts by the artist, and quotes by Barry Lopez, Basho, and others. The title stems from a 1000 year old viking ship salvaged from a bog in the village of Gokstadt, Norway. The ship and its memory were the central focus of Cooper's four year project. This was the second book in a proposed cycle of five books by the artist.

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Dreaming The Gokstadt : Northern Lands and Islands
Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Graeme Murray,
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$10,000.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light lifting of tipped in cover photograph. Contents are clean and unmarked. Light rubbing of protective envelope and light scuffing of edges of slipcase. A handmade book with associated imperfections.
[Object # 25201]