Jim Dine: History of Communism

"This 'history' came about because my friends, Sarah Dudley and Ulie Kuhle, litho printers in Berlin, were given about 100 litho stones from a former Socialist art academy in what was the D.D.R. The stones all had images on them drawn by forty years of students under the oppressive regime. I asked them to reactivate the stones and print them on Zerkall Paper 450 g/m . Most images I chose of the 100 were able to have life breathed into them. We had finally forty-five images. They editioned the lithographs and then sent them to us in Walla Walla, Washington. I drew and ground and bit copper plates to go over them. I wanted a black view of the image and a sense of Berlin in the East as I knew it when the horrible wall was still up. The etchers who came to work with me every summer over two and a half years have coaxed the exact mood I wanted out of the plates." -Jim Dine

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3869307919
• ISBN13: 9783869307916
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"