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Brian D. Cohen: Etchings & Books
Bridge Press, 2001
Bridge Press announces the publication of Brian D. Cohen: Etchings & Books, a limited edition volume presenting fifty-three selected etchings reproduced in 300-line duotone by The Stinehour Press. The book features the publications of Bridge Press from 1987 until the present, with essays by Connell Gallagher, curator of Special Collections at the Bailey-Howe Library of the University of Vermont, and by editor and author Helen Whybrow. The book is released in an edition limited to 500 copies, each signed and numbered by the artist. The etchings and artist’s books reproduced in the volume are held by major public and private collections throughout the country.
The book is available for $60.00 postpaid.
Excerpts from the book:
These are marvelous books, rich with layers and layers of printing alchemy, with the resonant relation of text and image, and with acute awareness of our relation to our surroundings and our history. These are works to study and to ponder, whose presence quietly and inalterably engages our eyes, heart, and mind.
--Connell B. Gallagher in his Preface to Brian D. Cohen: Etchings & Books
In Brian’s prints our transitory existence is most often portrayed through our inventions, the weight and form and industrial smear of the things we have left behind, the relics of our imagination and effort…He is drawn to the edges between light and dark, human and nature, dream and reality, presence and absence. And yet for all their mystery his images are far from formless; they are bound by the rigorous geometrical architecture of his composition and his skillful precision with the medium.
--Helen Whybrow, from A Conversation with the Artist and his Prints, introduction to Brian D. Cohen: Etchings & Books
I don’t really want to know entirely how the image will look beforehand—too many unexpectedly pleasing things may happen to exclude the accidental, the lucky, the improvisatory, or the momentarily inspired ahead of time. But it always involves a struggle and repeated failure. Samuel Beckett said, “Fail; fail again; fail better.”
--Brian D. Cohen, from his Artist’s Statement in Brian D. Cohen: Etchings & Books.
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