The Hand of the Engraver by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Author:Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2018-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

CASTLES IN SPAIN

“I have made another book with Bachelard,” we read in Flocon’s autobiography, “Châteaux en Espagne, for which he has written the commentary. These are the greatest copperplates I have ever made. I wanted to create a book of engravings, some of them bled off the page, flush-mounted like a photography book.”1 Paradoxically enough, the playful title, evoking the daydreaming “castles in the air,” is what gives this bundle of sheets its programmatic coherence. The individual pages might also be regarded as a theatrical sequence: as a succession of acts revolving around formations that are always about to slip away over the horizon. They articulate proximity and distance at once. Like Paysages, the album was printed by Fequet and Baudier; Flocon stamped the plates himself on Georges Leblanc’s hand presses. It was produced for the Cercle Grolier—“The Friends of the Modern Book,” named after the sixteenth-century bibliophile Jean Grolier—and its president Paul Banzet. The invitation to the book presentation features a small double portrait of the engraver and the philosopher in one corner of the plate (fig. 11): Flocon in shirt sleeves, his hands on his sketchpad and his eyes fixed on an object out of sight; Bachelard with his arms crossed, gazing at once inward and out into the distance. There they stand, side by side, not deep in conversation but each immersed in his own vocation.

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