Item #31048 TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE! The Bird Press, Peter Laugesen, Thorsten Dennerline, Susanne Jorn, and book artist.
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!
TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!

TEACH ME STAR OF NIGHT! LAER MIG, NATTENS STJERNE!

Bennington, VT: The Bird Press, 2000. Since 1997, The Bird Press has been an artist-run publishing project that has focused on hand printed artists’ books. All projects utilize some inherent aspect of the book and often take the form of open-ended collaborations with writers. Each project is a response to the last, both in form and content, in order for the work to continually evolve. Poetry, broadly defined, is a major inspiration for most of the work. Editions between 15-40 utilize various print media including: flatbed offset lithography, stone lithography, etching, letterpress, wood blocks, and digital pigment printing. Book artist Thorsten Dennerline creates paintings, drawings, and prints in addition to artists’ books. He has exhibited work across the U.S. as well as in Chile and Denmark. His work is represented in numerous collections including Yale University Library, the Library of Congress, UCLA, Stanford University, and the Kunstindustri Musset (Denmark).

Number 26 of 40 copies in the regular edition. There are also 10 special bindings and 5 unique artists proof bindings. Signed and numbered by the book artist. A collection of eight poems by Danish poet, typographer, art critic, and translator Peter Laugesen (1942 - ). He was awarded the Danish Critics Prize for Literature in 2003. These poems were written in Denmark in 1999 specifically for this collaborative project with artist Thorsten Dennerline. He describes his eight etchings in this book: “[They] are meant to be an accompaniment to the text that functions as a collaboration similar to the way musicians might play together.” Bound in quarter vellum over blue cloth boards, which are laced into a vellum covered spine with five strips of alum-tawed thongs. The endbands are buttonhole stitched with waxed yellow thread. The front cover is titled in black and the rear cover has a black star printed near the bottom edge. The text is in both Danish and English. The Danish text is printed on translucent Seikishu Japanese paper and the English translation is printed on a thicker stock. This allows the reader to view the poems in both languages mirroring each other through the transparent paper. Unpaginated. [50 pages.] Size: 9.75 x 10 inches. In fine condition. ARTB/032417.
Fine.

Item #31048

Price: $1,115.00