Kelm Daniel (4 results)

Printer Wrapper. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Illlustrated (illustrator). Signed and dated by Peter Koch. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition thus, 1999. A Near Fine copy lacking dust jacket. 4to., 649 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with title in white on front cover and spine. Minor signs of shelf wear to cloth; tips slightly bumped. Text appears unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The text was designed and composed by Sibley using a Macintosh computer. "The imagery was created by Joseph A. Osina at his studio in New York City, and printed by Nathan Kanofsky and Heather Arak at the Arak Kanofsky Studios. Hand coloring by Suzanne Moore. The text was printed letterpress from photopolymer plates by Arthur Larson at Horton Tank Graphics, Hadley, Massachusetts. The binding and folders for an edition of twenty copies and one artist proof were designed by Daniel E. Kelm at The Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, Massachusetts." [colophon] "The boards for this handmade limited edition were covered with ultrasuede and painted. Carborundum was added for sparkle. The moon is a patinated silver disk, hammered by [Sibley]. The moon is a good metaphor for the process of collaboration. It is important to become new together, to empty of expectations and preconceived notions, to enter the unknown, the dark. Only then do we begin to practice our craft. Inspiration gradually illumines the dark, empty field of space, and a shared vocabulary of words, materials, shapes, color, and light is discovered." [artist statement]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Textured cloth boards, gilt lettering, shaped textblock and boards; colophon printed separately and mounted in a matching folder. 8vo. np. Illus. (colored plates). Numbered limited edition.

Condition: Fine in Fine Natural Wood Base. Unique. Unique. The closed book rises above the yew-wood enclosure. Quoting Mark Dimunation, retired Chief of Rare Books, Library of Congress: "The power of Kelm's symbolic universe is most poetically yielded by a pure book structure. Free of encumbering text, Religio Mathematica (1990-2007) is a structure built with hinged triangular shapes. Using the four alchemical colors as its only source of language, the structure uses the revelation of the colors to create the text within the confines of the folded shape. The book begins folded into a cube; only red is exposed--fire. It unfolds into linked pyramids of white and black, water and earth. Further sequences unfold an alchemical story that is exclusive to Kelm's world and vision. When Kelm manipulates the book, it seems to snake from one shape to the next. To hear him recite the incantation of the book is magical. The unfolding of the cube marks the birth of the universe; the ultimate closing of the lotus signals its death. With this pure, abstract piece Kelm has achieved his Book. Text and binding are fully integrated, the reader and the book wholly interdependent. His craft and his vision now merge to create a single experience-reader and book, observer and the observed. The success of the piece comes from Kelm's own sincerity and modesty. In his effort to embrace and impart his own hard-won view of the world, he has stepped aside to let his books speak for themselves: "When you let go of perfection, you allow the book to be what it is." [exhibition catalogue]. Bright and unmarred. Complex hinged structure, printed paper faces; yew enclosure.