Shadowbuttoneggs.

André THOMKINS.

Verlag: Olefer Hagarpresse Kuhn., 1966

Beschreibung

Title, colophon text sheet, sheet with mounted photograph, die-cut sheet, + 18 original screenprints in black. The button and egg is an absurd combination of unrelated elements first concocted by André Thomkins in the late 1950s. Produced by sewing an ordinary fabric button onto a hen's egg, and resting the egg on the spool of thread, Thomkins reprises the work of the surrealists and their practice of bringing together disparate objects to create new visual works. Thomkins began to create his shadowbuttoneggs, a series of pictures based on the shadows cast by the button-egg, in the mid-1960s. Thomkins cut out the first shadows cast by the object on paper under different lighting conditions, using the sheet with the hole to create a second shadow, and then a third, and so forth. This portfolio replicates the artist?s experimentations. Published in an edition of 50 copies, the portfolio consists of an original photograph of the egg and button casting its shadow, mounted onto a larger sheet of back card, together with a matching sheet of black card, here die-cut into the shape of a shadow. Eighteen further screenprints, printed black on white sheets, map out the resulting shadow patterns as the series progresses. Signed by Thomkins on the colophon page. [WorldCat lists only two copies, both in Germany]. Sheets loose as issued in original cloth-covered drop-back box.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1689

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Shadowbuttoneggs.
• Verlag: Olefer Hagarpresse Kuhn.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1966
• Einband: Hardcover
• Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers