A History of Communism

"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 450g/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

Product details

• Authors: Jim Dine
• Publisher: Steidl
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2014
• EAN: 9783869307916
• ISBN: 978-3-86930-791-6
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 186 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Kommunismus, Moderne Kunst, Kunst, Verstehen, Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein