THE MASK OF EVIL

Brecht’s The Mask of Evil reveals beautifully the problem of being angry and hateful in this world: it’s straining and a lot of effort – exactly what it looks and sounds like. Here it is interpreted with anxious typography, juxtaposed with calming organic wood textures.

This large volume contains twelve pages including front and end matters on heavy 480 gm double rag paper. It is quarter-bound in black Kraftex leather over blue hand-made paper-covered boards, with foil title. Multi-color woodblock prints and letterpress type. 13.75 x 11.25 x .675 inches, (35 x 29 x 1.8 cm), edition of 10. Signed and numbered.

My artist books, broadsides, and loose-leaf editions are published in very small numbers, as low as five. All are hand-printed and hand-bound (in the case of books) by me, all are signed and numbered. While I am trying to be perfect, I am human, not a machine. Some variations in the editioned work are to be expected due to the processes, materials, and the artist’s change of mind. It is exactly what makes the work collectible: each piece is an original work of art. The pieces employ printmaking like original etchings, woodcuts, carborundum, screen prints, monotype, monoprint, and letterpress. Nothing is produced using digital reproduction methods.

$2,800

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DIRK HAGNER • INKSWINE PRESS/INTERROBANG BOOKS

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