Crossing map
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Crossing map
Classmark: Artists' Books 299
Additional creator(s): Lijn, Liliane (1939-) (Artist); Sykes, Richard (1946-2019) (Former owner); Mason, Penny (Former owner)
Related people: Lijn, Liliane, 1939-
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Publication city: London; New York
Date(s): 2002
Language: English
Size and medium: 5 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/782733
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020821745105181
Description
Copyright date on Artist's book is 1983.
Artist's book plus four cloth-bound folios containing 16 leporello lithographic prints on Fabriano paper, in slipcase.
Artist's book and prints signed by the artist; copy no.5/12.
"Each book is unique because the artist entered the press, distributing the colours and varying the flow of inks throughout the printing. Crossing Map uses language as a mirror for our culture, avoiding the use of nouns and punctuation, and inventing a new prose structure. In Crossing Map, a woman artist questions the meaning of time, enters the web of her memory, and transcending the present, discovers a world bearing no trace of man’s presence. There she meets the last man and is witness to the death of her society and the dematerialization of man.Lijn thought that if we could relate our understanding of atomic behaviour to ourselves, we could learn how to transform ourselves and hoped to direct scientific knowledge inwards, feeling that it was high time that we demolished the barrier between the observer and the observed. Crossing Map explores the idea that the human mind is disposed of a vast supply of untapped energy. What would it be like, Lijn posits, to inhabit a world in which humans became light? Crossing is the point where meeting occurs. Meeting leads to exchange and that is the basis of all relationships."-- Artist's website.
Text: [Volume 1.] Song 1-15; Postlude -- Prints: [Volume 2.] Song 1-4 -- [Volume 3.] Song 5-8 -- [Volume 4.] Song 9-12 -- [Volume 5.] Song 13-15 ; Postlude.
Features
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 299: prints unbound in blue cloth-covered boards, in alike slipcase.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Artists' Books 299: Gift from the collection of Richard Sykes and Penny Mason through the Contemporary Art Society, 2023. Purchased by Richard Sykes and Penny Mason from England & Co. Gallery, London in 2006.
Access and usage
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