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)

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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

Date1982

DimensionsBook: 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).

MediumOriginal 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.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.388

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Label TextJim 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).Published Referencescf. Castleman, Riva, A Century of Artists Books, New York, 1984, p. 133, repr.

cf. D’Oench, Ellen G., Jean E. Feinberg, Jim Dine Prints, 1977--1985, New York, 1986, no. 141, reprs.

cf. Hogben, Carol, Rowan Watson, editors, From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books, London, 1985, no. 165, repr.

cf. Phillips, Elizabeth, The American Livre de Peintre, New York, The Grolier Club, 1993, no. 13

cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 168.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 21.

Toledo Museum of Art, Jim Dine: Past, Present, and Future, July 28-October 8, 2000.