The myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus ; translated from the French by Justin O'Brien ; imagery by Patricia Holburd Heidenheimer
- Bib ID:
- 4212045
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960, author
- Uniform Title:
- Mythe de Sisyphe. English
- Description:
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- [Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina] : Fulcrum Press, 2007
- 20 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 35 cm. in slipcase 36 cm.
- Summary:
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Artists' book in leporello style with collagraph images accompanying text drawn from Albert Camus' classic essay on the existential struggle. The text ends with the evocative, almost celebratory line, "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." With its dramatic juxtapositions of light and dark, the book evokes both the beauty of lived experience as well as its painful absurdity. The powerful and evocative hand icons, located on the cover, spine, and third-to-last spread of the book, are inspired by the prehistoric cave paintings of El Castillo and Santián .-Based on the prospectus.
- Notes:
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- A limited edition book.
- Designed, letterpress-printed and hand-bound by Maureen Cummins in her studio in High Falls, New York.
- Limited edition of 20 numbered copies and 5 artist's proofs signed by Heidenheimer.
- National Library of Australia's copy is no. 2.
- "The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays was originally published by Gallimard in Paris in 1942, when Camus was a fighter in the French Resistance. The English translation by Justin O'Brien was published by AIfred A. Knopf Inc., NY, in 1955. Patricia Holburd Heidenheimer created and hand-printed the images from collagraph plates. The hand icons derive from prehistoric European cave paintings at EI Castillo and Santián. The text was letterpress printed in Gill Sans Bold onto Rives Heavyweight Buff. This edition is limited to twenty numbered copies, and five artist's proofs, of which this is copy number..." -Colophon.
- Printed on one side of an accordion folded sheet and bound in a black cloth covered clamshell wrapper; grey paper spine. Wrapper lined with textured, grey colored paper. Accordion sheet attached to first leaf that serves as front free endpaper of wrapper; last leaf attached to same textured, gray paper that fits within a cut sleeve on wrapper's paste-down endpaper. Text printed in black, grey and white; illustrations in colour; printed on cream colored paper. Issued in a dark slipcase, covered in black cloth over boards, with dove gray titling on the spine.
- Subject:
- Place:
- United States. North Carolina Kill Devil Hills.
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- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2007
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