Jim Dine
The American artist Jim Dine (b. 1935) is one of the most admired artists of the post-war period. Dine’s paintings, prints and sculptures have influenced generations of artists. A major contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, his prominence continues to grow. Numerous museum retrospectives have taken place in the USA, Europe and the Far East. Major exhibitions held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Isetan Museum in Tokyo are amongst his most noteworthy.
His Enitharmon publications include: The Bending of the Bow (1993), Kali (1999), Pictures (with Robert Creeley, 2001), Talking about Aldo (2008) and Jewish Fate (2016).
Self-Portrait
With 17 original etchings by Jim Dine, Kali is among the most ambitious books yet published by Enitharmon. Dine, one of the greatest living printmakers, admired particularly for his innovative etchings and woodcuts, has revitalised European traditions stretching back to antiquity since he returned to drawing the figure from life in the 1970s. Kali was conceived during an intensive period of printmaking and writing in the summer of 1998. The bound and slipcased book contains a sequence of new poems by Dine and 16 original etchings covering a wide range of his best-known current motifs and some images introduced here for the first...
Etching£2,916.67
Talking About Aldo: de luxe edition
Jim Dine’s vivid, candid and detailed reminiscences about his friendship and working relationship with Aldo Crommelynck (1931-2008), the legendary printer of Matisse and Picasso, over a period of more than 30 years are full of affection, humour and layer upon layer of information.
In conversations with Marco Livingstone, Dine charts the extent to which his experience of working with Aldo, a man who was not only a great printer but also a skilled draughtsman, enriched his experience of France on every level. From an appreciation of its art and culture, its city life and countryside, to its food and its specialist shops, Dine’s ruminations also...
Etching£650.00