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Book of 18 woodblock prints with text by Parmenides of Elea
12 x 9 Inches
Kiki Smith’s artist book The Vitreous Body calls on the words of the Greek philosopher Parmenides for text, and is illuminated by the artist’s woodcuts and printed on translucent paper, recalling the luminosity of ancient vellum. Yet the book is fresh and entirely contemporary. A meditation on light and vision, it is created by one of today’s most exciting and original artists.
The woodcuts in The Vitreous Body were created using the Graphicstudio invented technique of heliorelief, which allows photographic images to be transferred to a block of wood. The image is then placed into relief not by traditional handcutting but by sandblasting. The text was printed from polymer plastic plates. Both images and text were printed on Japanese paper using a letterset press.
