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#10565

Elogio da Mão (In Praise of Hands)

Artist
Amir Brito Cador
Price
$16.00
Date
2011
Publisher
Andante Editions
Format
Artists' Books
Details
Softcover
Size
21 × 18 × 0.2 cm
Length
16 
Description

The hands shown in this book are taken from various sources: an old Egyptian wall drawing, a Japanese woodcut, a detail from an El Greco’s painting, some vintage posters, the Mercator’s Calligraphy Handbook (1540) and an engraving from “The Art of Writing”, an illustration from Diderot’s Encyclopedia.

Signed Edition of 30.

  1. Elogio da Mão (In Praise of Hands)
 

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