Salt Notes
Brown, James
San Francisco. Limestone Press. 1990
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From the edition limited to 50 copies, signed and numbered by James Brown on the colophon.
'Brown's approach to Salt Notes, the making of it, is concerned with uncovering as well as isolating the irreducible identity of the book. One senses his belief in being direct, in arriving at essential characteristics of, rather than elaborating shape, form, and line. In using sugar lift and spit bite, he connects painting to etching. His oval shapes are like fingerprints, irreducible graphic traces of his encounter with the skin of the plate, stone, and page. One thing not only touches but echoes another, engendering a rhythmic record of color, line, and form. Ink is the salt infiltrating the page ... '. (John Yau).
'Brown's approach to Salt Notes, the making of it, is concerned with uncovering as well as isolating the irreducible identity of the book. One senses his belief in being direct, in arriving at essential characteristics of, rather than elaborating shape, form, and line. In using sugar lift and spit bite, he connects painting to etching. His oval shapes are like fingerprints, irreducible graphic traces of his encounter with the skin of the plate, stone, and page. One thing not only touches but echoes another, engendering a rhythmic record of color, line, and form. Ink is the salt infiltrating the page ... '. (John Yau).
Folio. (550 x 490 mm). Fully illustrated book printed from 8 copper etching plates and 14 lithograph stones. Additionally with three pages hand-drawn by the artist. Bound in three-quarter leather in the original linen covered slipcase inset with additional vignette etching. Some staining to slipcase, otherwise fine.
#43962
