Yeats, William Butler / Tuttle, Richard. The Gyres (Source of Imagery). Poestenkill, New York, Kaldewey Press, 1995. Folio (39 cm). [56] pp. Printed by Richard Tuttle and Gunnar A. Kaldewey at the Tower of Poestenkill, New York 1995. 10 deluxe copies on papier de Chine, bound in black calf leather. The front cover with a golden inlaid doublure. 50 copies on paper with a watermark of the artist, made at the Kaldewey Press. All copies are bound by Thomas Zwang of Hamburg and are signed by Richard Tuttle. Tuttle has hidden Yeats’s text beneath uncut irregular sheets; his own woodcuts are printed across two unaligned sheets which are interlocked or, as it were, fossilized together, suggesting that the past is sealed off from us and no longer vital. A small square has been excised from the lower forecorner of the book ( itself a square ). The visual metaphor tells us that culture is no longer integral, the crude diminutive cut betokening the loss even of the rudiments of the technique on which it had risen. One of Tuttle’s most successful conceptual works. [Edition Kaldewey No. 25].

• Category: First Editions
• Keywords: First Edition · Limited Edition
• Language: English
• Inventory number: 12654LB

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