Blind Drawings, Examples of an Exercise Investigating the Objective/Subjective Principle of Art.
COX (Morris) & FRANKLIN (Colin)

Blind Drawings, Examples of an Exercise Investigating the Objective/Subjective Principle of Art.

With introduction by Colin Franklin. One of 75 numbered and signed copies by author and artist. 24 reverse-offset prints from linocuts after blind drawings chosen by Franklin. Fol., 22.2x32.6cm, 12pp., 24ff. Quarter vellum boards backed in Japanese patterned papers purchased by author. 39 leaves joined at fore edges, plates printed on Japanese mingei paper and stamped BD (‘blind drawing’) in red. Text printed on Japanese hosho paper in black, red, and grey. London, The Gogmagog Press, 1978.

£1,000.00

A fine copy. One of 40 copies with mingei and hosho papers. Cox described these drawings, made with his eyes closed, as ‘autobiographical’. The whimsical prints are studies of movement and form, unhindered by scruples for perfection, and Cox maintained the ‘oddity’ of the originals by cutting the prints on linoleum. They benefit from the ‘sumptuous’ coloured paper, as Cox noted in a letter to Connie Guyt. The usually laborious assembly process was further slowed by illness, and Cox was assisted in binding the volumes by Gemma O’Connor. [Chambers, Franklin, and Tucker, 157]

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Blind Drawings, Examples of an Exercise Investigating the Objective/Subjective Principle of Art.
Blind Drawings, Examples of an Exercise Investigating the Objective/Subjective Principle of Art.
Blind Drawings, Examples of an Exercise Investigating the Objective/Subjective Principle of Art.
Blind Drawings, Examples of an Exercise Investigating the Objective/Subjective Principle of Art.
Blind Drawings, Examples of an Exercise Investigating the Objective/Subjective Principle of Art.
Blind Drawings, Examples of an Exercise Investigating the Objective/Subjective Principle of Art.
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