13 x 15"; 28 pages. Letterpress printed on BFK Rives paper. Bound with goatskin spine and Fabriano Roma paper sides. Housed in a two-piece box covered in Cave Paper. Binding and box by Peggy Gotthold at Foolscap Press. Signed on the colophon by Peter Koch, Peggy Gotthold, Lawrence G. Van Velzer, Jerome Goldyne. Includes loose intaglio print laid in. Colophon: "Wrinkles & Creases is an artists' book published as an édition variée that includes an Introduction by Joseph Goldyne, eighteen Haiku poems by Lawrence G. Van Velzer with four original drawings and nine intaglio prints by Beth Van Hoesen. The haiku poems were written in response to Van Hoesen's series of drawings and prints of babies. Van Hoesen's interest in drawing and creating prints of newborns began in the early 1980s. Eight of these drypoint prints were published in 1983 as a limited-edition folio, Newborns. During the last few years of her life, Van Hoesen began hand-coloring the individual prints and drawings with the idea of including these works in a special, limited-edition artists' book. Joseph Goldyne met with Van Hoesen to discuss her work and agreed to assist in the selection of prints and drawings to be included in each book as well as to write the introduction." Introduction: "Whatever we may understand about development and birth, we do not fully understand its impact on us. The fact of a new human life, unable to care for itself, as blind to the past as to the present, yet with the potential of endless possibilities for an unknown future, always has the power to resonate in untold ways with the hopes and dreams of those who attend a birth and its aftermath. However, unprepared for the effort, what an artist rapidly takes in is something concrete: there are wrinkles and creases - something to record of line, light, and shade! Also, there is awkward movement, clutching and clinging to capture. There are the facial grimaces of gas as well as the features of an innocent sleep to record. Beth Van Hoesen is a natural for this task. ... "The prints and drawings of newborns in the present collection are published as an edition variee artists' book that includes nine drypoints of newborns with three original, preparatory graphite and colored-pencil drawings by the artist. Most of the infants depicted in this suite are now in their middle years and hopefully flourishing ... " |
