Birds — Special Edition
by Jim Dine
Steidl
"Hi, my name is Jimmy," a crow said to the boy, Jim Dine, when his parents took him to the zoo. The two Jimmys became connected by a secret link. "Lots of things scared me when I was a little boy but though this scared me ... I also understood it." The encounter with the bird was perceived by the boy with a mixture of fear, fascination and a deeper understanding of his unconscious world. The artist later transformed his remembrance into a fascinating series of black-and-white photos.
Are they symbolic, profound, mystic or just pictures of beloved animals? An everyday unspectacular bird might appear to the beholder as a character of mythology, as a jester at the medieval court, as a strange messenger of a world behind the scenes. Jim Dine speaks to the bird, and the bird answers, because they are on intimate terms.
- Price
- UK £240.00
- US $350.00
- EC €360.00
-
With an Heliogavure in a handmade slipcase, 29.5 x 31.5 cm landscape format, combined in a labeled slipcase.
Signed and numbered by Jim Dine (1/100 – 100/100) - 88 pages, 36 tritone plates
- 29.5 cm x 31.5 cm
- Slipcased hardcover
- Steidl
- ISBN: 3-88243-373-6
- Publication date: August 2001