Les liaisons dangereuses.

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Les liaisons dangereuses.

between 1991 and 1994

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Unique copy. The artist's book wrapped with a golden thread is a copy of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel Les liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, that Sam Erenberg sourced from a used bookstore in Los Angeles. What interested the artist was the typeface and printed color of the cover as well as the wear and tear of the book itself, which is browned and brittle with signs of fire and water damage. The book was so fragile that Erenberg decided to wrap it in thread, thus transforming it into a book object. The color of the thread was selected to augment the visual integrity of the title page. Included is support for the book object, made of metal, with two screws.

1 item ; 19 x 14 cm.

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Erenberg, Sam

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American artist Sam Erenberg is a painter, bookmaker, filmmaker, and installation and performance artist. Born in 1943, he grew up in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. His interest in art began after being inspired by exhibitions of Salvador Dali and hard-edge painting during the early 1960s. He enrolled in the Chouinard Art Institute (now known as the California Institute of the Arts) to study painting in 1965, and it was there that he met his wife, Elena Mary Siff. In ...