"21 Etchings and Poems" Exhibition
Woodward Gallery
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Woodward Gallery presents an in depth, rare exhibition of 21 Etchings and Poems. The complete 1960 limited edition was conceived by Peter Grippe in 1951 when he took over the directorship of Atelier 17, an internationally hailed graphic workshop.
This etching project, possibly the first of its kind in the United States, joined two creative disciplines–art and poetry. Poets and artists invited for this historic collaboration worked in the almost forgotten tradition of the Book of Kells and William Blake’s Illuminated poems. Each print closely integrates text and image, including a poem written in the hand of its author and imagery created through a wide range of innovative print techniques by an artist. For the poets who transferred their poems, in their own handwriting, onto the copper plate, this was an arduous, but exhilarating experience; a slip of tool meant beginning anew as they wrote backwards from a mirror image.
In 1954, the Atelier 17 was disbanded. Mr. Grippe, however, continued to work with the artists in his own studio. The etchings where finally completed in 1960, nearly ten years after its conception. 21 Etchings and Poems is not only a landmark of mid-20th century American print publishing, but is unique in its inclusion of diverse writers and artists from of the 1950s. Many of the poets and artists went on to become leaders in their art forms.
Woodward Gallery exhibits the complete portfolio detailing the great significance of this important body of work.
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Schedule
from March 03, 2012 to April 29, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-03-03 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Harold Rosenberg, Fram O'Hara, Peter Viereck et al.