Circus: The Artist as Saltimbanque
Walter Bachinski (designer and illustrator) with Janice Butler, Circus: The Artist as Saltimbanque. 2010.
Dimensions:15’ x 11” x 1”.
Bound: 2017.
This is the second unique binding done by Glaister on the same title.
Essays by Mark Twain, Guillaume Apollinaire, Vaslav Nijinsky, Jules Laforgue, Jean Cocteau, Henry Miller, Charles Baudelaire and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Full black Pentland goat skin leather binding with onlays of leather, painted aluminum, laminated mylar and wood veneers; gold, painted and foil tooling and acrylic spray paint.
The binding presents a view of the interior of the big top from above, with the playfulness and wonder that we hope for at the circus.