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Edwin Schlossberg1967–68
- Attribution
- Edwin Schlossberg (American, born 1945) letterpress hand-set and hand-printed by Christopher Pullman published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)
- Medium
- Letterpress blind embossed on aluminum foil
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 17.1 × 13.8 cm (6 3/4 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 27.9 × 21.6 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- 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
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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.”
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0