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"Il Miglior Fabbro" is how T. S. Eliot termed Ezra Pound –"the best craftsman." This volume is all the more remarkable for the fact that Pound knew no Chinese. Yet these translations of eighteen medieval poems, mainly by Li Po (A.D. 70I-762), are acknowledged masterpieces. Pound worked from notes by Ernest Fenollosa, a great American scholar of Oriental literature and art. These notes Pound turned to poetry, imbued with the scent and flavor of their Chinese originals.Italian-born artist Francesco Clemente, as well, feels the magnetic pull of the East. There have been scores of books and articles by and about Clemente; and exhibitions of his art all over the world, including a large 1990 show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As the organizer of the Philadelphia exhibit wrote, Clemente's art "resonates between intensities of the cerebral and the sensual." Especially here, in these seven exquisite color woodcuts.Seven color woodcuts by Francesco Clemente.Edition limited to 300 numbered… Read More

In 1950 you could have found Balthus listening over and over and over again to his favorite opera by his favorite composer as he designs its sets and costumes for the directors of the Aix-en-Provence festival. 1996. Breakfast in Rossinière, Switzerland. For this book, Balthus sets in motion a quest for his 1950 watercolors; and for the original recording of the opera at Aix-en-Provence. From a villa in the hills above Marseilles to the depths of a Paris bank vault and finally to the famed Château de Chassy in Burgundy. Balthus selects the six most beautiful watercolors. From these Keiji Shinhara, a National Treasure of Japan, cut and printed the wood blocks for the prints in our book. From a 1957 recording by same conductor and cast who performed Balthus' original Così fan tutte we made our CDs.Six multi-color woodcut prints by Balthus.Edition limited to 300 numbered copies.Each signed by Balthus.Printed in the original Italian on handmade Chinese paper. Bound in bluegreen silk to recall the sea at… Read More