Clements, Mike, A contemporary Grand Tour , [2013]
- Title(s):
- A contemporary Grand Tour : book 11, Santorini.
- Published/Created:
- [Herefordshire, England] : Mike Clements, [2013]
- Physical Description:
- [9] cards : color illustrations ; 11 x 19 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsN7433.3.C54 C68 2013Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12458935
- Classification:
- Books
- 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)
- Form/Genre:
- Artists' books -- 2013.
Postcards.
Woodcuts -- 2013.
Etchings -- 2013.
Linocuts -- 2013.
Wood engravings -- 2013.
Solar plate.
Pochoir -- 2013.
Collographs (prints) -- 2013. - Export:
- XML
- Oia central square
- Fira post office
- Emborio
- Pyrgos
- Manolas, Thirassis Island
- Karterados
- Exo Gonia
- Akrotiri.
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