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Artist Book Spotlight - Mutterfarbe - Video UPDATE

Artist Book Spotlight - Mutterfarbe - Video UPDATE

Recently we told you about Mutterfarbe, a new artist book and installation project by Erin Mickelson and Brandi Katherine Herrara. Now we are thrilled to present a video of these very talented women talking about this multi-faceted work, its conception and their collaborative process. Using Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s seminal work, Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colors, 1810) as a primary source, Herrera translated sections of the text from German to English during a residency at the Château de Monthelon (Burgundy, France) for the first time since Charles Eastlake’s 1840 edition.
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Artist Book Spotlight: Mutterfarbe by Erin Mickelson and Brandi Katherine Herrera

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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