Highlights in this catalogue
are new publications from many of the most important book
artists working today. We are proud to offer the last
Gabberjabb: HUNKERING The Last Gabberjabb Number Eight and
IX/XVIths or Aleatory Annexations...from Walter Hamady’s
irrepressible, exuberant Perishable Press. We also offer new
books from Chevington Press, Double Elephant Press, Vincent
FitzGerald and Company, Flying Fish Press, Gehenna Press
(the last book), Nancy Leavitt, Francoise Ly, Mnemonic
Press, Suzanne Moore, Lois Morrison, Stephanie Nace, Pacific
Editions – two new books, one a collaboration of Charles
Hobson and Barry Lopez, Sarah Plimpton, Red Angel Press,
Douglas Shafer, Tamar Stone, and Verdigris Press.
We
are proud to announce that we are the official
representative of Ediciones Dos Amigos – a fine press
located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founded in 1980 by two
Argentinean bibliophiles, Samuel Cesar Palui and Ernesto
Lowenstein, this private press / livre de peintre publisher
has produced over 70 books that astonish and delight - as
every work of art should do. This Latin American press has
created a unique space for themselves. Ediciones Dos Amigos
is clearly inspired by the French tradition started at the
turn of the last century, when art dealers became publishers
and painters collaborated with their friends who were poets
to produce books that were more than words with images.
Carrying forward the influence of Surrealism’s painters and
poets on Latin American writers and artists - the
movement’s duration and consequences were far greater on
that continent than ours – Ediciones Dos Amigos is the
synthesis and perhaps culmination of diverse Latin
American aesthetic traditions.
I have not seen any
visualization as successful as those of Ediciones Dos Amigos
of the great Latin American authors of the 20th century.
Neruda, Calvetti, Cortazar, Solar, and Asturias are among
the authors represented in these beautiful books. Most
notably included, as befits a press from Buenos Aires, is
Jorge Luis Borges, The images and the printing, awash in
colors that create their own world, are at once mystical and
yet completely compelling in their own reality. The visual
tension created by these bold, almost other-worldly images,
contrasted against letterpress printed texts of these great
authors, perfectly suits the grand themes incorporated in
both. These books are exciting and are truly glorious
examples of the book beautiful.
