In addition to the Nose suite of 30 etchings, five prints, known informally in the workshop as the “Nose Extras” – El Lissitky, Mirror, Odalisque, Chaise-Longue, and Nose on…
Medium and Techniques: Sugarlift Aquatint
Mirror
In addition to the Nose suite of 30 etchings, five prints, known informally in the workshop as the “Nose Extras” – El Lissitky, Mirror, Odalisque, Chaise-Longue, and Nose on…
El Lissitzky
In addition to the Nose suite of 30 etchings, five prints, known informally in the workshop as the “Nose Extras” – El Lissitky, Mirror, Odalisque, Chaise-Longue, and Nose on…
Nose 30 (Only Sold with Nose 29)
DARKNESS AT NOON I read Koestler’s Darkness at Noon as a first-year university student. It was written in the immediate aftermath of the 1937/1938 Stalin…
Nose 27
A SYLLOGISM OF PRINTING (libel) Testing an image through printing. The drawing on the etching plate is covered in ink. The ink is wiped off,…
Nose 28
PUTTING THE S INTO LAUGHTER Compulsory Hilarity. An X in Russian is transliterated as Kh, a guttural clearing of the throat like the G in…
Nose 25
YES, OF COURSE (bust) Noses feature often in Gogol’s writing. He himself had a famous nose. A bust of him in the hermitage shows a…
Nose 22
COPPERPLATE Light up and hard down, was how we were taught to write—a bastardised, simplified calligraphy of ‘scribble’ writing. This was possible with an HB…
Nose 21
MIKHAIL IVANOVICH KALININ A Party member from 1898 and a member of the Central committee from 1919, he was neither tried nor shot. He died…
Nose 29 (Only Sold with Nose 30)
ANOTHER KHEPPI ENDING At the end of Gogol’s story, collegiate assessor Kovalyov wakes one morning and finds that his nose is back in its place…
Nose 24
AD HOC My sister collected stamps. My recollection is that from family of friends she received stamps of cosmonauts, ballet dancers and athletes, all marked…
Nose 20
VYACHESLAV MIKHAILOVICH MOLOTOV A member of the Party from 1906 and a member of the Central Committee from 1921, through the period of the great…