Heart of Darkness
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Heart of Darkness With Etchings by Sean Scully. Conrad, Joseph New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1992 Signed Limited Edition; Signed and Numbered on the Rear Colophon. with four full-page and four half-page etchings by the artist, printed on all-cotton stock paper specially made in Pescia, Italy. Each plate protected with tissue paper laid in. Typographic design by Dan Carr using French typeface Fournier. Text size is fourteen point, with six-point interlinear spacing. Printed on Lana Royale stock in an off-white tint, made in France. Full-bound by hand in black Nigerian oasis goatskin, titled in gold on spine. Laid inside lined, clam-shell box covered in black canapetta linen, titled in gold on leather label on spine. no.154 of 300 copies signed by Scully. Sean Scully RA (born 30 June 1945) is an Irish-born American-based artist working as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and photographer. His work is held in museum collections worldwide and he has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. Moving from London to New York in 1975, Scully helped lead the transition from Minimalism to Emotional abstraction in painting, abandoning the reduced vocabulary of Minimalism in favor of a return to metaphor and spirituality in art. Scully has also been a lecturer and professor at a number of universities and is highly regarded for his writing and teachings, collected in the 2016 book, Inner: The Collected Writings and Selected Interviews of Sean Scully. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events. Provenance Sale, London, Sotheby's, 2015, The Joseph Conrad Collection. Literature Elizabeth Phillips & Tony Zwicker, The American Livre de Peintre, 48 ("Scully, long a champion of abstract art as a democratic language capable of expressing pure feeling, here maps the African continent in a group of etchings, which, with their brooding intensity, run parallel to the unfolding of Conrad's sombre allegory"). Very good. Item #264
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