Price: $5,000.00
SKU: 102337
ARTIST: George Nama
MEDIUM: Intaglio and silkscreen,
DATE: 1972.
EDITION SIZE: Edition 50. Paper size 13 x 10" (33 x 25.4 cm).
DESCRIPTION: Clamshell portfolio in brown cloth, pages folded with numbers, each page set contains one intaglio. Note by Walter Leuba. [Walter Leuba was a prolific writer of poetry and prose, with a focus on literature and music.- U of P]. Note<BR> "A monument is essentially a reminder, a notice, a monition. This function the local tombstone and the great pyramid of Cheops share. Each memorializes an individual, through the latter can suggest an entire civilization. Stonehenge is also a reminder, yet its monumentality had other functions as well. <BR><BR> We can think of a monument as a thrust toward eternity: time thwarted by form occupying space in stillness.<BR><BR> The monumental may be said to present man's comment on, or response to, nature, which has evolved its own unforgettable forms, forms that do not ask to be remembered. Man, on the contrary, asks. He dreams of something more than Everest or the Grand Canyon, something which can project his spirit into the future, far beyond nature and mortality. Thus he creates cairns, obelisks, towers, pillars, columns, and other embodiments of this aspiration.<BR><BR> In the following prints, the imagination is presented with what are, in effect, abstracts of sculptured monuments, notes to precede the third dimension. There is no explicit meaning in a work of art. They are only resonances." - Walter Leuba <BR>
ADDITIONAL INFO: All the prints are signed, titled, and dated in pencil, inscribed "11/50."
CONDITION: Very good condition.
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