This broadside uses Bertolt Brecht’s wordplay on the old proverb “Man thinks, God governs” (in Brecht’s original German version Der Mensch denkt, Gott lenkt). By just changing one punctuation marks he completely flips the meaning of it.
The typographic design follows Albrecht Dürer’s book title page of anatomy, Vier Bücher von Menschlicher Proportion (Four Books on Human Proportions), published in 1528.
Single sheet manuscript on laid paper, letterpress in 2 colors, 22 x 15 inches (56 x 38 cm). Letterpress. Signed and numbered, edition of 30.
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.
$675 (boxed, only 2 available)
$600 unboxed