"Inspired by the 1992 recording of Henryk Górecki's Symphony number 3 ... The bird illustrations are from seventeenth-century copperplate engravings by Francis Willughby. Photographed by John Wareham, the illustrations were digitally adapted and made into polymer plates by Gerald Lange. The woodcut was designed and carved by Keiji Shinohara. Paul Shaw provided calligraphy of the Polish lyrics ... Daniel Kelm provided consultation on the triptych." "Lyrics for the first movement are from a fifteenth century Lamentation of the Holy Cross Monastery in Poland. The second movement is a prayer inscribed on the wall of a cell in the Gestapo's headquarters in Zakopane. The text for the third movement is a Polish folk song"--Verso of 2nd plate. Issued in slide-top cherry wooden case (34 x 18 cm.) Library has copy no. 15, signed by the artist. IaU Structure; box design & construction is by Franklin Nichols Woddworking ... Designed, printed & bound by Robin Price in an edition of sixty copies during the spring of 1996"--Letterpress leaf mounted in box."
OCLC:
(OCoLC)81918329
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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