by George Walker
Hearing Seeing
- Medium: artist's book- multi media relief printing, wood engraving, linocut, wood cut and compact disc with hand printed CD inserts
- Size: 38cm x 56cm edition size: 50
- Value: $600.00
ACROPHONY Symbol and Sound
THE RUTH AND MARVIN SACKNER ARCHIVE OF CONCRETE AND VISUAL POETRY, MIAMI , FLORIDA METROPOLITAN TORONTO REFERENCE LIBRARY, RARE BOOKS NATIONAL LIBRARY OF CANADA CANADA COUNCIL ARTBANK, OTTAWADescription: Limited to fifty hand printed books and 300 CD1s Acrophony is a project created in 1991 that explores symbols and sound. Merging visual and soundscape artwork using a unique invented musical hieroglyphic language; Acrophony is a work concerned with art and language. Each of the fifty books is hand printed onto handmade paper with original wood cuts, lino cuts, wood engravings. The box that contains the CD and book is also hand printed and assembled with a vacuumed formed port (hand painted) made from the symbols used in the text and notations. The CD is original music by the artist with hand printed original lino cuts and hand set and cast type for the text. This limited edition work is featured in the following Public Collections as well as many other Private collections :
