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[Tales from the floating world].

Author: Nicholas Phillips; Ryōi Asai
Publisher: [London] : [Nicholas Phillips], [1982]
Edition/Format:  Image : Graphic : Original artwork : Picture : English
Summary:
"A sequence of images where the viewer floats away from the earth and its orbit to the far reaches of the universe. Starting with a view of the pyramids at Kareima (from drawings I'd done from high up on the Gebel Berkal), thence a low earth orbit view of cloud formations over the ocean, and so on passed the moon to be amongst the exploding galaxies. The images increase in size as we travel: from the single squares  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aquatints
Pictorial works
Material Type: Graphic, Original artwork, Picture
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Nicholas Phillips; Ryōi Asai
OCLC Number: 1015233392
Notes: "Tales from the floating world. Portfolio of 5 images, color aquatints printed borderless over 9 sheets, 26 x 26 each. Slip case and silk end boards with letterpress titles & colophon ... Only copies up to XIX made. 1982."--Information provided by the artist.
Description: 9 prints : color aquatints ; each 25 x 25 cm, in box 26 x 26 cm
Contents: I. The Pharaohs --
II. The Pacific --
III. Over Esperance [two prints] --
IV. La lune [two prints] --
V. The dolphin [three prints]
Other Titles: Tales of the floating world

Abstract:

"A sequence of images where the viewer floats away from the earth and its orbit to the far reaches of the universe. Starting with a view of the pyramids at Kareima (from drawings I'd done from high up on the Gebel Berkal), thence a low earth orbit view of cloud formations over the ocean, and so on passed the moon to be amongst the exploding galaxies. The images increase in size as we travel: from the single squares at the start to the doubles for space walk and moon to the final image where the view opens out across 3 side-by-side sheets. The colophon text, a quote from a 17th cent Buddhist priest [Tales of the floating world, by Asai Ryoi] says it all."--Information provided by the artist.

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