Le printemps tragique.

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Le printemps tragique.

2019

http://primo.getty.edu/GRI:GETTY_ALMA21203249910001551

Unique copy. The artist's book is a copy of the 1940 novel Le printemps tragique by ReneĢ Benjamin that Sam Erenberg sourced from a used bookstore. What interested the artist was the typeface and printed color of the cover, as well as the wear and tear of the book itself. The book was so fragile that he decided to wrap it in thread, binding it closed, and 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 ; 18.5 x 12 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 ...