Edwin Schlossberg (American, born 1945)
paper folder made by Carolyn Horton (American, 1909-2001)
printed by Donn Steward and Fred Genis
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)
Title Folder, from Wordswordswords
INV-1070
Edwin Schlossberg (American, born 1945)
paper folder made by Carolyn Horton (American, 1909-2001)
printed by Donn Steward and Fred Genis
published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)1967–68
Title Folder, from Wordswordswords
Edwin Schlossberg (American, born 1945) paper folder made by Carolyn Horton (American, 1909-2001) printed by Donn Steward and Fred Genis published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955) →lithographprint
Date
1967–68
Medium
Lithograph on brown laid paper
Dimensions
30.4 × 50.5 cm (12 × 19 15/16 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.”