Rare Books and ManuscriptsN7433.3.C54 C68 2013Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Eight original, limited edition prints, each postcard was hand-made using a different printmaking technique ... woodcut, screenprint, collagraph, solar plate, drypoint, pochoir, lino, and Japanese woodblock."--Title card.Place of publication and imprint date taken from address and postage stamp information on verso of postcard.Limited edition of 25 copies.BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 4 of 25, initialed by the artist."One of a series of artist's books comprising facsimile copies of 21st century postcards sent from places that 18th-19th century travelers might have visited on their 'Grand Tour.' This edition charts a journey round the Greek Aegean island of Santorini through original, hand-made prints inspired by images on Attic pottery, recovered by archaeologists from ancient Thira, dating from the 7th-5th centuries BC."--Back flap of original envelope.
Contents:
Oia central square -- Fira post office -- Emborio -- Pyrgos -- Manolas, Thirassis Island -- Karterados -- Exo Gonia -- Akrotiri.
Subject Terms:
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Thera Island (Greece) | Grand tours (Education) | Clements, Mike -- Autograph.