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Unique and beautiful – with words by Paul Simon

(Su Lund) Under African Skies. Unique artist’s book by Su Lund with lyrics by Paul Simon. 1988-1994. 9” x 10”. 11 handcolored intaglio etchings are laid into French-folded leaves which have the fore-edges with small pleats to allow for painted pattern edgings. Each page containing an etching has been gone back into and hand painted in a soft gold. The text is handwritten in ink by the artist on the opposite page. Bound in hand-dyed brown-toned goatskin with relief design and central painted image, all by the artist. Gray endpages with silver and with blue dots which match the relief design at the front fore-edge of the binding and the inside pages. Laid in a black cloth box, lined with red; front cover with a design of vinyl and intaglio etching onlays. Signed in ink by Su Lund and numbered 1/1. Fine.

Words by [tag]Paul Simon[tag], from ‘Graceland’ album. (Used w. permission.) Simon was awarded the “Gershwin Prize for Popular Song” by the Library of Congress in 2007. This book won an award in a Cincinnati museum exhibit in 2005.

Related items: Artists' Books, Catalogue 36 - Summer 2008, Fine Designer Bindings, Poetry, Paul Simon, Su Lund