Świat = The world, original drawings and artist's proof of the illustration [graphic] / Jim Dine. 1989.

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Świat = The world, original drawings and artist's proof of the illustration [graphic] / Jim Dine. 1989.

Preliminary drawings on 16 Mylar sheets and artist's proof of the port. of Czesław Miłosz created for the book published as: Świat = The world / Czesław Miłosz ; a sequence of twenty poems in Polish, translated into English by the poet, with an introduction by Helen Vendler and a portrait of the poet in dry-point engraving by Jim Dine. San Francisco : Arion Press, 1989. Print: On ivory British handmade paper; plate mark 29 x 21 cm. Signed in pencil by Jim Dine, designated "A/P" and dated "1989." Printed by Robert Townsend, Georgetown, Mass. "An extra edition of the portrait dry-point engraving ... was printed ... on larger sheets of British handmade paper ...The prints are numbered and signed by the artist. Edition of 20 copies"--Publisher's Web site. Cf. also Carpenter.

16 drawings on Mylar : pencil., b&w ; 29 x 21 cm.1 print : drypoint, b&w ; 44 x 33 cm.

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Miłosz, Czesław

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Czesław Miłosz, poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate, was born on June 30, 1911, in Šeteniai (Szetejnie), Lithuania, and died on August 14, 2004, in Kraków, Poland, at the age of 93. Miłosz began to publish poetry while studying law at Vilnius University. After the Second World War, Miłosz became a cultural attaché for the People's Republic of Poland in New York and Washington, D.C. He then accepted a post in France in 1950. Increasingly estranged from the Polish government, he defected in 1951,...

Townsend, Robert E.

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Dine, Jim, 1935-....

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Jim Dine (1935- ) is a painter and sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Jim Dine, 1965 Feb. 26 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 435526893 Painter, sculptor (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Jim Dine interview, 1965 Feb. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220181821 ...