¥4,290
Alas by Sophie Nys
An artist book by Belgian artist Sophie Niss.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, published in 1759 by the English novelist Laurence Sterne, is widely known as a revolutionary novel that makes full use of plot deviations, double-dealing, and graphic design, and is now considered to be the source of literature that pursues the "stream of consciousness" of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf. Sophie Nyss has focused on one of the devices known as black pages, famous for the line "Alas, poor Yorick!", and has compiled a collection of black pages from over 100 different editions of Sterne's works. The book also includes an essay by Peter de Vogt, the owner and collector of the library from which the images in this book were taken, on the printing technical challenges of the black pages in the first editions.
Limited to 400 copies.
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Title: Alas
Artist: Sophie Nys
Grafische Cel, 2021
Soft cover, perfect binding
195 x 165 x 18 mm
240 pages
Text in English
First edition of 400 copies
¥4,290 -
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, published in 1759 by the English novelist Laurence Sterne, is widely known as a revolutionary novel that makes full use of plot deviations, double-dealing, and graphic design, and is now considered to be the source of literature that pursues the "stream of consciousness" of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf. Sophie Nyss has focused on one of the devices known as black pages, famous for the line "Alas, poor Yorick!", and has compiled a collection of black pages from over 100 different editions of Sterne's works. The book also includes an essay by Peter de Vogt, the owner and collector of the library from which the images in this book were taken, on the printing technical challenges of the black pages in the first editions.
Limited to 400 copies.
-
Title: Alas
Artist: Sophie Nys
Grafische Cel, 2021
Soft cover, perfect binding
195 x 165 x 18 mm
240 pages
Text in English
First edition of 400 copies
¥4,290 -