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The Apocalypse: The Revelation of St. John the Divine (The Last Book of the New Testament from the King James Version of the Bible, 1611)
Artist: Jim Dine (American, born 1935)
Publisher: Arion Press, San Francisco, 1982 (Andrew Hoyem)
Printer: The Arion Press, San Francisco
Date: 1982
Dimensions:
Book: H: 15 1/4 in. (387 mm); W: 11 9/16 in. (294 mm); Depth: 1 1/8 in. (28 mm).
Page (untrimmed): H: 15 in. (381 mm); W: 11 3/16 in. (284 mm).
Medium: Original prints: 29 woodcuts.
Text: letterpress (typefaces: Stempel Garamond Titling, display capitals; Monotype Garamond Bold, text; Hadriano, verse numbers).
Paper: handmade Richard de Bas Apta white wove paper.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.388
Label Text:Jim Dine's choice of the traditional woodcut medium to illustrate the age-old biblical Apocalypse theme pays homage to the great 1498 woodcut series by Albrecht Durer. However, Dine also brought to the biblical text his insights from reading a book about atomic bomb survivors - the effects of an atomic bomb being a modern cataclysmic event that approaches an apocalyptic vision. For some of the illustrations, Dine, whose self portrait appears on the frontspiece, adapts his own characteristic imagery of bathrobes, hearts, trees, and gates to illuminate specific biblical passages. A few other images and captions allude more directly to the bomb victims such as the woodcut of an oriental head paired with the phrase "Scorched with Great Heat". (Chapter 16), and a horrific skull accompanied by the words "There Shall Be No More Death" (Chapter 21).
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