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IN ONE OF ONLY 8 SPECIAL BINDINGS (DINE, JIM.) The Apocalypse, the Revelation of Saint John the Divine. 29 original woodcuts by Dine, 381x284mm; 15x11 1/4 inches (sheets), full margins. Folio, bound in one of only 8 specially built wooden cases, each topped by a relief sculpture of a skull by dine. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1982
number 142 of 150 signed by dine and one of only 8 copies in the special binding. "For his interpretation of the many symbols of the Apocalypse, Dine moved beyond the expressionistic figurative and the classical still-life objects of skulls and small sculptures that had entered his work after 1970 [here reserved for the binding]. Movement in the forms of a horse racing toward the viewer in one plate and the beating wings of an angel in another is implied by the vigorous lines the artist cut into the woodblocks"--Castleman, 133. From the Arion catalogue: "Oak boxes housing a relief sculpture of a skull face by Jim Dine, cast in bonded plaster and individually painted by the artist, were fabricated with a latched recessed tray for the book. Edition of 8." The book of Revelation was the first of several projects between Andrew Hoyem and Jim Dine and was Hoyem's first collaboration with a major American artist. It was created in the long tradition of illustrating the Apocalypse, from the time of illuminated manuscripts, through Dürer, and into the modern era. The text is set in two sizes of type as a reading device to differentiate the speakers and is printed by hand in handsome Garamond Bold on French handmade Apta Vélin from the Richard de Bas Mill. D'Oench Feinberg 141; From Manet to Hockney 165.
