Middle Kingdom Art In Egypt

Gary Goldstein

1992

I’ve always been fascinated by the art of Ancient Egypt with its preoccupation with death, with its recording of life and memory. This book has a tremendous darkness, a feeling of liquid darkness, the strips, so reminiscent of the strips of the uniforms of concentration camps, appears in the book and in later incarnations in my work, as prison bars.

  • Copies: 1
  • Pages: 132
  • Type of binding: Hard Cover
  • Dimensions (cm): 18X12.3X1.5
  • Publication: Independent
  • Place of publication: Jerusalem
  • Book photography: Yair Meyuhas

Gary Goldstein was born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (1950) and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is an artist and a lecturer of Visual Arts. He completed his M.F.A. in Visual Arts at “Pratt Institute”, Brooklyn, NY, USA (1977). Goldstein Immigrated to Israel in 1977 and was a member of Kibbutz Afikim for four years. He established a Fine Arts program in the Jordan Valley regional High school “Beit Yerach”. From 2012 to the present, he resides and creates art in Tel Aviv. Gary Goldstein concentrated during the decade of the 1980s on creating around 150 unique Artists’ Books. 14 out of them were published in limited additions of 14 to 1,000 copies. From the 1990s Goldstein draws mostly on pages of secondhand books. He created hundreds of three-dimensional objects. In 2007 he was awarded the prize of Fine Art of the Culture Minister, and in 2015 he received the Arik Einstein prize of Fine Art of the Culture Minister for Life-Time Achievement.