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B3187. Manuel Neri: Artist Books
Manuel Neri: Artists’ Books / The Collaborative Process
By Bruce Nixon. 2005. 194pp. 10"x12". Hardcover.
This catalog presents seven artists books. The first four are collaborations (artist, printer, photographer, binder) and are produced in limited editions. Of the most interest to calligraphers are the last three books -- each a single copy original. These books present poems by Pablo Neruda (Ode
to A Beautiful Nude, Morning, Afternoon & Tonight and Truth and Poetry). Thomas Ingmire has written out each poem in italic -- both in English and in Spanish. It’s a beautiful volume.
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B900. Words of Risk/Gullick
Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire
By Michael Gullick. 1989. 90pp. 65 illus., many in full color. 9" x 12". Paper. Retail Price $25.00.
Using words as subjects, Ingmire's work has progressed from the transcription of texts to complex multi-layered visual statements. His juxtaposition of and interplay between words & images challenges the traditional role of calligraphy as "decorated writing."The book describes the work and working process of Ingmire & reproduces virtually all of his major pieces, many in full color.
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B2614. Codici 1/Ingmire
Codici 1.
Edited by Thomas Ingmire. 2003. 64pp. Paper.
Ingmire is best known for his expressive -- and often
non-legible -- calligraphic works. This illustrated notebook
draws primarily from Ingmire's teaching. It presents the assignments, support materials, the works created by the students, as well as images and brief discussions of his own recent works that relate to the program. Topics include inventing new forms, lettering as drawing, the expressive line, the shape and space of writing, the word as image, Hans-Joachim Burgert: the calligraphic line, the space of
writing: the ditchling project. The emphasis is on a visual rather than a verbal message.
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B2244. Belle Lettere
Belle Lettere.
1997. 168pp. 9.5" x 12". 200 illustrations, almost all in
full color. Hardcover.
This full color book presents the best works from the entries for the Belle Lettere Prize. It is a glorious volume filled with full page and detail color shots of the calligraphic and expressive pieces. All are in full color. It is a painterly presentation printed on an off-white sheet, which gives the color reproduction a subtle warmth. Dust jacket and slipcase. Contributors include Denis Brown, Jane Dill,
Ward Dunham & Linnea Lundquist, Olive Bull, Glen Epstein, Rose Folsom, Georgianna Greenwood, Thomas Ingmire, Cheryl Jacobsen, Hermann Kilian, Werner Schneider,
Brody Neuenschwander, Jan Owen, Paul Shaw, Susan Skarsgard. There are also many Europeans who are little known to American calligraphers. Introductory essays are by Carlo Buffa "So Far, So Close"; Thomas Ingmire "Calligraphy in the 20th Century"; Tiziano Santi "Between Word and Image"; and Manfredo Massironi "The Pleasure of Showing & Looking at Words." A final essay by Monica
Dengo is on "The Work of Thomas Ingmire." Each essay is in English and Italian. Please be warned. The f-word appears on pages 10-11. If the word gives you offense, don’t purchase this book.
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SJ01. Messianic Predictions
Messianic Predictions
Isaiah 7, 9, 11. Artist: Thomas Ingmire. 15"x22". Giclée
print.
Distinctively Thomas Ingmire with explosive energy, color and radiating gold. Familiar gilded phrases burst out of the
foundation text: Prince of Peace, King of Kings, Everlasting Peace, Immanuel God is With Us, For Unto Us a Child is
Born,Halleluiah! - all prophesizing the coming of the savior. Handel used Isaiah 9:6-7 for one of the great choral sections of the Messiah.
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SJ02. Sermon on the Mount Matthew Print
Sermon on the Mount Matthew
Artist: Thomas Ingmire. 15"x 22". Giclée print.
Thomas Ingmire has lettered the Beatitudes in a graceful vertical Roman. On the right he has a repetitive, jagged, and colorful treatment of the word "blessed." The letters are scattered randomly in a multicolored pattern, here and there
coming together to form the word. Together they express Jesus’ rich teaching in the Beatitudes.
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SJ03. Ten Commandments Print
Ten Commandments
Exodus 19. Artist: Thomas Ingmire. 15"x 22". Giclée print.
"I wanted to show the power and promise of the
Commandments, showing them forming out of a beautiful
chaos. To reinforce the sense of abstraction, power and promise, I wanted the letters to be in the Latin alphabet and with use of typography." -Thomas Ingmire.
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