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Title(s)
A contemporary Grand Tour : book 11, Santorini.
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Published/Created
[Herefordshire, England] : Mike Clements, [2013]
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Physical Description
[9] cards : color illustrations ; 11 x 19 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7433.3.C54 C68 2013
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
"Eight original, limited edition prints, each postcard was hand-made using a different printmaking technique ... woodcut, screenprint, collagraph, solar plate, drypoint, pochoir, lino, and Japanese woodblock."--Title card.
Place of publication and imprint date taken from address and postage stamp information on verso of postcard.
Limited edition of 25 copies.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 4 of 25, initialed by the artist.
"One of a series of artist's books comprising facsimile copies of 21st century postcards sent from places that 18th-19th century travelers might have visited on their 'Grand Tour.' This edition charts a journey round the Greek Aegean island of Santorini through original, hand-made prints inspired by images on Attic pottery, recovered by archaeologists from ancient Thira, dating from the 7th-5th centuries BC."--Back flap of original envelope. -
Subject Terms
Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Clements, Mike -- Autograph. | Grand tours (Education) | Thera Island (Greece)
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Form/Genre
Artists' books -- 2013. | Collographs (prints) -- 2013. | Etchings -- 2013. | Linocuts -- 2013. | Pochoir -- 2013. | Postcards. | Solar plate. | Woodcuts -- 2013. | Wood engravings -- 2013.
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
Oia central square -- Fira post office -- Emborio -- Pyrgos -- Manolas, Thirassis Island -- Karterados -- Exo Gonia -- Akrotiri.
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