Research Catalog

Title

The temple of Flora : twenty-eight drypoint-engravings / by Jim Dine ; with botanical notes compiled and poetry selected by Glenn Todd & Nancy Dine.

Author

Dine, Jim, 1935-

Publication

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Todd, Glenn
• Dine, Nancy
• Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837.
• Crommelynck, Aldo, 1931-2008
• Arion Press. prt
• R.E. Townsend (Firm), printer of plates
• Cardoza-James Bindery Company. bnd

Description

[119] p. : ill.; 53 cm. +

Subject

• Dine, Jim, 1935-
• Flowers in art
• Flowers > Poetry
• American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Romulus.
• Sculpture.
• Bas-reliefs – United States – 20th century.
• Metal.
• Bronze (Metal)

Note

• 175 copies printed on mouldmade Rives BFK paper from Monotype and handset Romulus type, of which 150 copies were offered for sale.
• "The fourteenth book of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
• Inspired by Robert John Thornton's The temple of Flora, the concluding part of his New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus (London, 1799-1807). Cf. Editors' pref. and NUC pre-1956.
• Illustrations: 29 prints from 28 plates : drypoint, engraving, b&w ; full-page (plate mark 47 x 32 cm.). Comprise frontispiece with title "Details from Nancy's garden," 27 prints chiefly based on engravings in Thornton's work and the accompanying print (2nd state of frontispiece). "They are drawn with nails, scrapers, sandpaper, wire brushes, and the Dremel electric rotary tool. In some cases I've also thrown them, face down, across the limestone floor of the Atelier Crommelynck to get tone on the plate. Twenty-four ... were drawn from engravings in the folio Temple of Flora ... Three ... were drawn from living plants"--Statement by the artist, p. [8]; D'Oench & Feinberg state that the latter 3 were based on botanical ill. reproduced in The Discovery of nature (London : Eyre & Hobhouse, c1983). Proofed by Aldo Crommelynck, Paris, and printed by R.E. Townsend, Inc., Georgetown, Mass.
• Each print, except the last 2 of 3 depicting varieties of "Passionflowers," is preceded by 2 p. of letterpress with botanical description and a relevant poem by a modern American poet; letterpress to "Powder-puff tree" includes 2 poems. "Like Thornton, we would accompany each flower with a tribute from the pen of a poet ... For the more obscure specimens depicted by Dine, we have commissioned contemporary poets to write with oblique or direct reference to those flowers"--Editors' pref., p. [6].
• Binding: Publisher's quarter dark green morocco, gilt, and olive-gray linen, by Cardoza-James Bindery, San Francisco; issued in olive-gray linen covered case with bronze relief by Jim Dine and dark green morocco inlay with gilt title on top cover. Sculpture cast by Ron Dillow, Walla Walla, Wash.

Indexed In (note)

• D'Oench & Feinberg. Jim Dine prints

Contents

(Poems) Paradise enough / Andrew Hoyem -- Iris / Hilda Doolittle -- Orchids / Theodore Roethke -- From Tulips / Sylvia Plath -- For C. / Philip Whalen -- The snowdrop / James Schuyler -- To a lovely old bitch / William Carlos Williams -- The spring / Ezra Pound -- The superb lily / Robert Pinsky -- Yellow pitcher plant / Thom Gunn -- Van Stapel's vision / Robert Creeley -- Spring / Edith Sitwell -- The freeing of the dust / Denise Levertov -- Kalmia angustifolia / Jonathan Williams -- The poems of our climate / Wallace Stevens -- Vanity / Robert Graves -- American cowslip / Ron Padgett -- Sonnet / E.E. Cummings -- The day lily / Ronald Johnson -- Moment fugue / Hart Crane -- How roses get black / Frank O'Hara -- Passiflora / Robert Hass -- Calliandra grandiflora / Josephine Miles -- Calliandra grandiflora / Dick Barnes -- Shell ginger / John Ashbery -- To the tune "Soaring clouds" / Huang O ; translated by Kenneth Rexroth and Lin Chung.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1984 92-444

LCCN

84238279

OCLC

NYPG92-B78679

Author

Dine, Jim, 1935-

Title

The temple of Flora : twenty-eight drypoint-engravings / by Jim Dine ; with botanical notes compiled and poetry selected by Glenn Todd & Nancy Dine.

Imprint

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1984.

Indexed In:

D'Oench & Feinberg. Jim Dine prints, 177

Local Note

No. 110/175; signed in pencil by the artist on p. [5].

Local Note

Accompanying print is numbered 110/175 and signed in pencil; issued in gray-beige portfolio with title: "Extra print on chine collé from the second state of the frontispiece plate for The temple of Flora ... "

Added Author

Todd, Glenn.

Dine, Nancy.

Thornton, Robert John, 1768?-1837. Temple of Flora.

Crommelynck, Aldo, 1931-2008 Printer of plates

Arion Press. Printer

R.E. Townsend (Firm), printer of plates.

Cardoza-James Bindery Company. Binder

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1984 92-444