Edwin Schlossberg (American, born 1945)
aluminum box made by Louis Leibl, Jr.
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)
Folio box, from Wordswordswords
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Edwin Schlossberg (American, born 1945)
aluminum box made by Louis Leibl, Jr.
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)1967–68
Folio box, from Wordswordswords
Edwin Schlossberg (American, born 1945) aluminum box made by Louis Leibl, Jr. published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955) →metalbox
Date
1967–68
Medium
Aluminum portfolio box for an unbound book of 17 poem pages, a title page, folder, and preface page
Dimensions
Box: 31.2 × 23.5 × 5 cm (12 5/16 × 9 5/16 × 2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; purchased with funds provided by supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
Characterized as an author, painter, poet, philosopher, gamesman, scientist, inventor, and teacher, Edwin Schlossberg saw his life’s work as getting people to think for themselves. In Wordswordswords, he deliberately ignored some of the basic rules of printing in order to make reading a physical act. Wordswordswords is a virtual “what not to do” in printmaking: misalignment, misspelling, reversals, accidental masking, creased paper, blind embossing, and fragmented letters. Of this piece Schlossberg said, “I hope they see the words, and then I hope they see themselves.”