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A work made of lithograph in black from one stone on white wove paper.

Through, from Wordswordswords

1967–68

Edwin Schlossberg (American, born 1945) printed by Donn Steward and Fred Genis published by Universal Limited Art Editions (American, founded 1955)

United States

Characterized as an author, painter, poet, philosopher, gamesman, scientist, inventor, and teacher, Edwin Schlossberg saw his life’s work as getting people to think for themselves. In Wordswordswords, he deliberately ignored some of the basic rules of printing in order to make reading a physical act. Wordswordswords is a virtual “what not to do” in printmaking: misalignment, misspelling, reversals, accidental masking, creased paper, blind embossing, and fragmented letters. Of this piece Schlossberg said, “I hope they see the words, and then I hope they see themselves.”

Lithograph in black from one stone on white wove paper

Prints and Drawings