All These Stones
2008
Yehuda Amichai’s gritty poem about Jerusalem is an inspiration for this suite of etchings. A city of suicidal ghosts, debris, dust, and stones, the poem paints a picture of a Jerusalem that is both sacred and crumbling. The book is made of eight etchings and silkscreened poems.
- Copies: 10
- Pages: 8
- Type of binding: Manual
- Languages: Hebrew, English
- Dimensions (cm): 26.7x28.8x1
- Reproductions: The Jerusalem Print Workshop
- Printing: The Jerusalem Print workshop
- Binding: Yehuda Miklaf
- Type of printing: Etchings on a 300 gram Hahnemüle paper
- Publication: The Jerusalem Print Workshop
- Place of publication: Jerusalem, Israel
- Book photography: Avshlom Avital
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Andi Arnovitz b. 1959 in the US, lives in Jerusalem, Israel. She is a printmaker and bookmaker and has books in major collections around the world, including the US Library of Congress and The Israel Museum. Her works deal with gender issues, politics, ecology, and religion. Over the years she has created dozens of artist’s books in limited editions.
Yehuda Miklaf was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1942, and educated there and in New York. In 1968, he moved to Toronto and began working at the University of Toronto Library, where he stayed for almost ten years. During this time, he began to learn bookbinding with Emrys Evans at the Rare Book Library. Yehuda befriended two other notable binders in the Toronto area. One was Anton (Tony) Lucas, the binder at the Metropolitan Toronto Library, and Michael Wilcox, who was an independent binder. Miklaf has been working as a professional binder since 1977 with major book collectors, artists, private presses, galleries, and museums in Israel and around the world. He immigrated to Jerusalem in the fall of 1986 with his wife, Maurene Fritz. He is also a professional printer and has made a number of his own artist’s books in limited editions. His own press, based in Jerusalem, is titled Yehuda Shalom Press.
