Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song - Rare Book Insider
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Glaister, Donald

Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song

Foolsgold Studio, Cleveland, OH: 2002
  • $9,200
Quarto. (28)pp. One of 60 copies, this being number one. The long history of the Brooklyn Bridge as artistic muse here finds a deeply material instantiation at the hand of Glaister, who in his introductory poem extols the ways it "spans," "moves," "defines," and "endures." Certainly the book itself exemplifies these qualities, undeniable in the space of its spreads and the heft of its aluminum pages. To these Glaister has added five double-spread paintings of the Bridge, which taken together realize a certain prismatic perspective of its structure and a simultaneous view of it in and out of time. Between the paintings are abstract studies composed of sanded aluminum, acrylic paint, wire, aluminum tape, laminated polyester film, and sand. Altogether, then, Glaister poses the Bridge as visual and lyric object, as iconic as it is sublime. Bound in a quarter leather binding of Nigerian goatskin with sanded aluminum sides. Housed in felt-lined aluminum box with label. Fine. Laid in are the prospectus, an invitation to a contemporaneous talk given by Glaister, and the envelopes respective to each.
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