My Thieving Hands: A Story of Jean Genet
My Thieving Hands: A Story of Jean Genet
Date
2005
Edition Size
50
Media
Letterpress
Binding
Hand-sewn
Format
Artist Book
Publisher
Picture Books
Collection
Limited Edition Artists Books$ 1,200.00
2 in stock
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Boston Athenaeum
Chapman University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College, Rauner Library
Multnomah County Public Library
Oberlin College
Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD)
Scripps College, Denison Library
Stanford University
Temple University
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
University of Arizona Library
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), William Andrews Clark Library
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
University of Connecticut (UCONN)
University of Delaware Library
University of Louisville
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina (UNC), Greensboro
University of Wisconsin, Kohler Art Library
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
Jean Genet has spoken to me with surprising lucidity about life, love, and morality. He saw beauty in the grotesque and elevated it to the status of a diamond. When I look through this diamond, I see life with a unique clarity and brilliance.
— Chip Duyck
The book was printed by hand from Weiss type and metal photo plates by Ruth Lingen in New York, NY and Walla Walla, WA. The images were hand-colored by the artist. The text paper is Arches with French marbled end sheets. The edition was sewn by Kathy Kuehn and bound by Mark Tomlinson.