Freedom. A Fable. A Curious History of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times with Illustrations

Santa Monica: Peter Norton Christmas Project, 1997. Limited First Edition. Full Bonded Leather. Fine. Pop-Up Design by Peter Eisen,. Containing the Xmas card from the Norton family for the year 1997. The card accompanies this limited edition. 8vo. 23.5 by 21 cm. Unpaginated, twelve leaves, with four pop-ups, which in all but four frame or accent the text. (The first pop-up has no text on its two pages.) Walker herself worked in silhouettes, and she brought her artistry in that medium to pop-ups. Peter Eisen, who created the pop-ups, was a paper engineer and trained architect. The precise lines of the silhouettes were done with a burning laser beam, a new approach to doing this. The paper used was especially fine, heavy paper, with different suppliers for the white and the black papers. Walker, born in 1969, is one of the most celebrated black artists living today. Her work extends to many other areas besides silhouettes, but she is particularly renowned for her large-scale silhouette installations.