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Carlo Collodi / Jim Dine<br />
Pinocchio<br />
“Thanks to Carlo Collodi, the real creator of Pinocchio, I have for many years been able to live thru the wooden boy. His<br />
ability to hold the metaphor in limitless ways has made my drawings, paintings and sculpture of him richer by far. His<br />
poor burned feet, his misguided judgment, his vanity about his large nose, his temporary donkey ears all add up to the<br />
real sum of his parts. In the end it is his great heart that holds me. I have carried him on my back like landscape since I<br />
was six years old. Sixty four years is a long time to get to know someone yet his depth and secrets are endless. This<br />
book is for the Boy.” Jim Dine<br />
Pinocchio has long been a significant motif in Jim Dine’s work and this book is his illustrated version of Collodi’s<br />
original, dark story. Set far from a traditional fairy-tale world, containing as it does the hard realities of the need for food,<br />
shelter and other basic measures of daily life, the allegory, satire and wit are the perfect subject for Dine’s graphic<br />
series of drawings.<br />
Jim Dine was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1935. His art has been the subject of numerous individual and group shows<br />
and is in the permanent collections of museums around the world. <strong>Steidl</strong> has previously published his books Birds, The<br />
Photographs, so far (vol. 1–4),This Goofy Life of Constant Mourning, Drawings of Jim Dine, Some Drawings, Entrada<br />
Drive. This season <strong>Steidl</strong> is also publishing 3 Poems by Jim Dine and Diana Michener.<br />
Carlo Collodi / Jim Dine<br />
Pinocchio<br />
Book design by Jim Dine, Gerhard <strong>Steidl</strong> and Claas Möller<br />
176 pages, full color printing<br />
9.5 x 12 in. / 23.5 x 30.5 cm<br />
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket<br />
US $ 50.00 / £ 28.00 / R 40.00<br />
ISBN 3-86521-264-6<br />
ISBN-13 978-3-86521-264-1<br />
German edition (ISBN 3-86521-343-X) distributed by GVA<br />
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