Jim Dine: History of Communism

FORMAT: Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / illustrated throughout.
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ISBN: 9783869307916
PUBLISHER: Steidl
AVAILABLE: 10/31/2014
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Jim Dine: History of Communism

Published by Steidl.
Text by Jim Dine.

This 'history' came about because my friends, Sarah Dudley and Ulie Kuhle, litho printers in Berlin, were given about 100 litho stones from a former Socialist art academy in what was the D.D.R. The stones all had images on them drawn by forty years of students under the oppressive regime. I asked them to reactivate the stones and print them on Zerkall Paper 450 g/m². Most images I chose of the 100 were able to have life breathed into them. We had finally forty-five images. They editioned the lithographs and then sent them to us in Walla Walla, Washington. I drew and ground and bit copper plates to go over them. I wanted a black view of the image and a sense of Berlin in the East as I knew it when the horrible wall was still up. The etchers who came to work with me every summer over two and a half years have coaxed the exact mood I wanted out of the plates. -Jim Dine

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