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herman de vries - publisher

By (author) Lynn van Rhijn
By (author) Ton Geerts

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  • herman de vries' eschenau summer press creates unique artist’s books blending art, nature, and collaboration, featuring objects like gold and leaves
  • Essays contextualising their significance
Full Description

Once described as ‘small explosions of intelligence and sensation, the seeds of wonder’ by poet Thomas A. Clark, the eschenau summer press publications stretch the definition of ‘artist’s book’ as far as it will go. Since 1974, from his home in Eschenau, Germany, renowned artist herman de vries (1931) sends out leaves of gold, the dust of some roads, the forbidden down of thistles. A longtime key figure in the book-as-art himself, most of these publications are the result of an open invitation from de vries to artist friends like James Lee Byars, Marinus Boezem and Melanie Bonajo, but also to poets and musicians – even to a keeper of bumble bees. This book facilitates our reception of all 77 of these shared objects through full illustrations and written clarification. Two essays connect the series to the international context of the artist’s book.

About the Author

Lynne van Rhijn and Ton Geerts, curator and senior curator Modern and Contemporary Art at the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History).

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Specifications
Publisher
Waanders Publishers
ISBN
9789462625907
Published
1st May 2025
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding Benelux and Germany
Size
210 mm x 150 mm
Pages
416 Pages
Illustrations
300 color, 100 b&w
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