Robin Price
American
Altar Book for Górecki : The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, by
Henryk Górecki.
Middletown, Connecticut: Designed, printed, bound and published by
Robin Price, 1996.
Triptych of hand-stained Wahon paper,
illustrated with digitally-printed woodcut, engravings, and letterpress
in Guild Samson uncial and Perpetua.
Copy 36 of a limited edition of 60.
Inspired by the 1992 recording
of Henryk Górecki's Symphony
number 3, opus 36
- Lyrics from a 15th-century Lamentation of the Holy Cross Monastery
in Poland.
- Prayer inscribed on the wall of a cell in the Gestapo’s
headquarters in Zakopane.
- Polish folk song.
Graphic Arts Division
