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W00DCUT CAT/FISH from Mark Kurlansky's book, "What
- Item Number
- 155
- Estimated Value
- 500 USD
- Sold
- 190 USD to dc6c0675b
- Number of Bids
- 6 - Bid History
Item Description
Framed and signed original linocut print on handmade Japanese paper. It is 1 of a series of 23 linocut prints by the author to illustrate his book, “What”. A signed first edition of “What” is included.
"What, a book about questioning that asks why we make so many statements but ask so few questions. The book is written entirely in the interrogative and is statement-free, with 22 linocut illustrations of questions.
It questions the questioning of Jane Austin, T.S. Elliot, The Gospels, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Descartes, Freud, Langston Hughes, Keats, Neitzche, Plato, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, The Talmud and many others.
Is it a book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy-indeed, all of civilization-to ask what may well be the twenty most important questions in human history. Or has he given us a really smart, impossibly amusing game of twenty questions?
Kurlansky asks: In a world that seems devoid of absolute certainties, how can we make declarative statements? Without asking the questions, how will we ever get to the answers? "Why are we here? Why is all of this here? Why do we die? What is death? What does it mean that outer space is infinite and what is after infinity? What is the significance of birdflight, why does matter decay, and how is our life different from that of a mosquito? Is there an end to these questions or is questioning as infinite as space?"
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