Herbert Pföstl
Fragment On Ives
Broadside published by The Brother in Elysium
Fragment on Ives is a letterpress broadside edition on the American composer Charles Edward Ives (1874–1954), an iconoclastic traditionalist, mystical parodist, and conjuror of future sounds, who, with Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, or the painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, is one of my immoderately experimental, radiantly rare & radically strange light-figures & night-walkers of the American scene, space—and spiritual fields. The text is drawn and carved from my chapter on Charles Ives (and Henry David Thoreau), which is part of a larger project on Nineteenth Century America experienced as hallucination by some of its famous and forgotten contemporaries.
Hand set and printed letterpress with a collage by The Brother In Elysium. 19 x 14 inches. Edition of 50.
