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Diana Michener: Bones (Hardcover)
Diana Michener; Text written by Bernard Blistene; Designed by Holger Feroudj
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Jim Dine redefines everything, his life and his (he)art in these 52
books. Trying to realize the depth of his aesthetic and profane
reality, the books are also documents of an artistic consciousness,
of an intense biography, of personal likes and dislikes, of formal
richness and of exploding craftsmanship, of an exceptional
imagination. These books invent the context for a new melody for
the art of Jim Dine, for all the major byways of this seemingly
inexhaustible creativity, which combines dream and reality - it is
a composition for all the people who would like to sing a new song,
maybe their own song. Dine has reflected authentically on his own
identity and through it the identity of reality, nature, art,
thoughts, feelings in an extraordinary poetic way: we see a POEM,
we read an IMAGE. They are books one may read and regard as a
summary of an unusual life. This Hot Dream first appeared as an
idea 13 years ago. Steidl embraced and blessed the project so I
went ahead. I stewed about it for two years then I stood around
waiting to talk to Gerhard about it then finally I got down to
putting the books together. My method, as in all my work, is the
use of collage, painting and drawing, and correcting; coupled with
my writing and my untouched photographs. The fact of making a book
a week and the sensual possibilities i.e. the act of making a union
with humans through the smell of the ink on the paper, the feel of
the images and words. Hot Dream tells a lot about me, Dine, and
bookmaking. Jim Dine, Goettingen, June 2018
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