Greetings from America / Uriel Cidor

Identifier:FA.B119.2436

Dimensions:7.5 x 7.5 in

Creation dates:2018

Subjects: double leaves, letterpress printing, slipcases

Description:Casebound book with foil stamped spine housed in a slipcase. Double leaf pages. Printed in Octav-Ktav, a Hebrew font designed from eight geometric cuts in a square created by Cidor. An English translation is included in the back of the book. Made in an edition of 22.

“This is an alphabet book using my Hebrew fun-font Octavk’tav, letterpress printed in an edition of 22 copies. Each letter of the Hebrew alphabet is shown next to a word starting with that letter. The theme of the words are my subjective associations to ‘what is America.’” -- artist statement