Birk sandow illustrator (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 217 pages. 11.00x7.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. Birk, Sandow (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 207 pages. 10.50x7.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Birk, Sandow (illustrator).

Limited edition. Complete three volume set. Each volume signed by Sandow Birk at colophon, as issued; each numbered 50 of 100. Additionally, many of the full-page lithographs are individually signed by the artist. Illustrated with 209 original lithographs by Sandow Birk, printed by David Salgado on a Mailänder flatbed proof press. 35.3x27.7 cm (14x11"), each volume bound in full leather of various colors stamped in gilt. Fine, with typical fading to blue ink on Paradiso; that volume retains its original slipcase. The other two do not. Sandow Birk is renowned for his nine-year project American Qu'ran in which he hand-transcribed the entire Qur'an according to historic Islamic traditions and illuminated the text with scenes from contemporary American life. Here is its Christian antecedent, his interpretation of Dante, with a contemporary vernacular translation and imagery of American life today: car-centric, saturated with advertising and technology, urban, polluted, and eerily familiar. Signed.…