Manuscripts Don't Burn
Dan Wood, USA
| Manuscripts Don't Burn;
Dan Wood, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2012 Manuscripts Don't Burn is from the novel The Master and Margarita, written in the 1930's by Mikhail Bulgakov the soviet writer and satirist. The line is spoken by the devil to a writer who had destroyed his own work, which then magically reappears. It has been interpreted through the years as a testament to the writer and artist's perseverance through oppression, and became somewhat prophetic for Bulgakov's own life. He had been unable to publish any new work under Stalin, and wrote the novel in secret before he died in 1939. His widow snuck the novel out of the country where it was published in France in the 1950's, to instant worldwide acclaim. The newspaper article printed underneath is excerpted from Anthony Shadid's beautifully written article published in the Washington Post a few day after the bombing of al-Mutanabbi street. The Arabic text overprinted is a translation of the title, Manuscripts Don't Burn. Letterpress printed scroll book. Dan Wood is an artist and printer living in Providence, Rhode Island. After a brief stint studying history at McGill University in Montreal, he received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. He has continued his education in printing ever since, learning the craft of offset lithographic and letterpress printing in commercial print shops from Washington, D.C. to Providence, Rhode Island. A critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, he is presently immersed in his work in letterpress printing, having established Garbaszawa Press in 1994, and re-inaugurating it as DWRI Letterpress in 2004 to work collaboratively with other artists and designers. He has shown his own work nationally and internationally, and is represented in private and public collections, including the print collections of the New York Public Library and the RISD Museum of Art. He really likes his Linotype. dan@dwriletterpress.net http://dwriletterpress.net/danwood/ http://dwriletterpress.net/ |