Michail Karasik

(1953 - 2017)

2567

Paul Eluard

Любовь

Love

St. Petersburg 1995

312 x 178 mm

Edition: 50. Copy no. 30/50

 

Love is a collection of poetry by the French communist

poet Paul Eluard, pseudonym used by Eugène Émile

Paul Grindel (1895–1952). Karasik printed the text

in offset print on six folded-sheets of white paper (24

pages). There are no illustrations, but the pages are cut

into the shape of an upper woman’s torso, with holes

as nipples. When opened they show the full women’s

torso. The sheets are bound with a cord in double card

covers of red and blue colour including an appendix of

the original French text. The 50 copy edition has two

versions for the folder/slipcase: 1) a folder with laces;

2) a lithographed slipcase.

 

References: 

Hellyer 2006, nr. 900