Description
Very Good in a Very Good minus slipcase. One of 2,500 copies. Quarto, 10 â…›” h × 8 â…œ” w, with all 10 silk-screen prints of a bold number series by Indiana present. Brown paper wrappers with title on cover and spine, in a black paper slipcase with slight bumping and chipping to bottom front corners. Featuring poems by Creeley accompanying the artwork and printed in English and German (transl. Klaus Reichert) using a neutral palette in contrast to Indiana’s vivid pop imagery. Introduction by German art historian Dieter Honisch. This is the smaller format edition; a large folio edition of 250 copies was also printed. Inscribed on the title page by Indiana to Hugh Gourley, director of the Colby College Museum of Art from 1966 to 2002.
Numbers evolved out of a long correspondence between Creeley and Indiana. Creeley frequently collaborated with artists including Francesco Clemente, Rene Laubies, Jim Dine, and Sol LeWitt and strove to create a vital tension between the poetry and visual art. In the 1999 exhibition catalog In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations, poet and art critic John Yau noted that “collaboration has become a way for him to both designate and discover the particulars inherent to time and space. The point … is to keep one's eyes open, to be attentive to reality, and the self amidst it, for as long as humanly possible.”
