{"product_id":"the-stars-vija-celmins-eliot-weinberger","title":"The Stars \/ Vija Celmins \u0026 Eliot Weinberger","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York artist Vija Celmins has made many images of the night sky—paintings, drawings and prints of gorgeous richness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Stars\u003c\/em\u003e, she and her collaborator, the essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger, devote an artist's book to the theme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCelmins created three celestial prints for the project, which she also designed. One print, inspired by the worn binding of an early twentieth-century Japanese book, becomes the volume's mottled deep-blue cover; the second and third prints are images of the night sky, one of them negative—dark stars on a pale ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the text, Weinberger assembled a catalogue of descriptions of the stars drawn from around the world, and from an array of historical, literary and anthropological sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis mytho-poetic charting of the night sky evokes the vastness of the human imagination's response to a space itself vast and unknowable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppearing in English and also in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Maori, the text supplements Celmins's images visually as well as verbally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is a facsimile edition of a limited-edition \u003cem\u003elivre d'artiste\u003c\/em\u003e published by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by The Museum of Modern Art, 2005\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoftcover with slipcase, 56 pages, 3 color images, 7 × 10.5 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-0-87-070704-9 \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Curated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67768562385263,"sku":"htl1792047992948","price":30.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/1483\/2239\/files\/the-stars-vija-celmins-eliot-weinberger_1.jpg?v=1792047997","url":"https:\/\/pickdailyclad.shop\/products\/the-stars-vija-celmins-eliot-weinberger","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}