Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Confucius.
2. Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
3. Vital, Not, 1948-
4. Lam, Bun-Ching.
5. Zwang, Christian.
6. Kaldewey Press. prt

Description

1. [17] leaves : ill.; 82 x 26 cm.

Series statement

1. Edition Kaldewey ; v. 17

Uniform title

1. Da xue. English & Chinese.
2. Edition Kaldewey ; v. 17.

Alternative title

1. Great learning

Subject

1. Drawings
2. Vital, Not, 1948-
3. Pencil works
4. Artists' books > United States

Genre/Form

1. Artists' books – United States.
2. Drawings.
3. Pencil works.

Call number

1. Spencer Coll. Amer. 1991 94-190

Note

1. 40 copies printed in Poestenkill, N.Y., 1990-1991, on specially watermarked paper handmade at the Kaldewey Press; watermark based on a sculpture and print by the artist, Not Vital. One of 30 copies issued in binding by Christian Zwang; signed in pencil by the calligrapher and the artist.
2. English text (translation by Ezra Pound, from Confucius: the great digest, 1950) printed on leaf of silver foil-laminated Chinese tea chest paper (leaf [17]).
3. For detailed account of the collaboration among publisher/printer/designer (Gunnar A. Kaldewey), artist and calligrapher, cf. article by Robert Rainwater in the Print collector's newsletter, v. 23, no. 3 (July/Aug. 1992), p. [81]-85.
4. Illustrations: 1 drawing on 13 leaves : pencil, black paint ; multi-page. "In each copy [Vital] freely drew an unbroken pencil line from a starting point at the top center of the first text page, meandering off course randomly ... to encircle or to block off one to four indivdiual Chinese characters per page, to the bottom of the last page, ending in a punctuation of ... black paint"--Rainwater, p. 86. Initialed in pencil at end. -- 1 drawing (on t.p.) : pencil ; 8 x 7 cm. An outline tracing of the watermark (cf. note on the specially watermarked paper, above).

Indexed in (note)

1. Kaldewey Press. First five years
2. Dubansky & Strauss. Kaldewey Press

Language (note)

1. Chinese text after calligraphy by Bun-Ching Lam.

Binding (note)

1. Deluxe copies: Publisher's black paper boards with silver foil label on front and spine, by Christian Zwang.

Title

1. Confucius: the great learning.

Imprint

1. New York : Kaldewey Press, [1991].

Series

1. Edition Kaldewey ; v. 17
2. Edition Kaldewey ; v. 17.

Indexed in:

1. Kaldewey Press. First five years, p. 47
2. Dubansky & Strauss. Kaldewey Press, p. 107

Binding

1. Deluxe copies: Publisher's black paper boards with silver foil label on front and spine, by Christian Zwang.

Language

1. Chinese text after calligraphy by Bun-Ching Lam.

Added author

1. Confucius.
2. Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
3. Vital, Not, 1948-
4. Lam, Bun-Ching.
5. Zwang, Christian. Binder
6. Kaldewey Press. Printer

Research call number

1. Spencer Coll. Amer. 1991 94-190