Michail Karasik

(1953 - 2017)

1546

Песнь песней царя Соломона

Solomon's song of songs

Leningrad: MK, 1990

204 x 125 mm. 72 pages

Edition: 45. Copy no. 2/45

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Song of Songs is a translation of Salomon’s poems from Old Hebrew by Abram Efros. After a year in which he concentrated on more contemporary texts, this book marks the artist’s return to the main theme of his early books, the Bible. Karasik wrote the text on the stone with lithographic crayon and added full page illustrations, chapter headings, and tail pieces with a hair hair brush and reed pen. The text and illustrations

are printed on thin paper, on one side only. Several sheets of paper are glued together, harmonica folded, and saddle stitched into grey board covers. The book is kept within a white card slipcase lithographed in three colours. In total 45 copies were printed.