Artist Book Spotlight: Mutterfarbe by Erin Mickelson and Brandi Katherine Herrera
Poetic and Visual Experiments with Goethe’s Zur Farbenlehre
Mutterfarbe is a work of experimental text + visual translations and poems by Brandi Katherine Herrera. Using Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s seminal work, Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colors, 1810) as a primary source. Working during a residency in Germany, Herrera translated sections of the text from German to English for the first time since Charles Eastlake’s 1840 edition.
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