Hot Dream

(52 Books)

52 books presenting photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures and texts by Jim Dine as well as texts by Jules Boykoff, B. H. Friedman, Vincent Katz, Ron Padgett, and Kaia Sand; 10 audio CDs with readings by Jim Dine inserted in volumes 6, 9, 10, 16, 18, 24, 29, 34, 38, 48 (edition A & B; in edition C the CDs come in a gray box titled JIM DINE READING (plus one song) within the slipcase); supplementary booklet with an introduction by Roland Scotti (exhibition catalog of the first presentation of the books at Museum Liner Appenzell, Switzerland, June 22-October 26, 2008); 4038 pages; with slipcase

Dimensions

Books: 9 1/8 × 6 11/16 (23.2 X 17)

Thickness of books: 1/8 (0.3) to 1/2 (1.2)

Slipcase:

Edition A: 19 1/2 × 11 13/16 × 6 11/16 (49.5 × 30 × 17)

Edition B: 16 3/4 x 9 5/8 x 6 7/8 (42.5 × 24.5 × 17.5)

Edition C: 17 5/16 x 9 5/8 x 7 1/16 (44 × 24.5 × 18)

Inscriptions

Not signed

Edition

Edition A: 100

Edition B: 22

Edition C: 378

Publisher

Steidl, Göttingen (edition A, C)

Jim Dine (edition B)

Printer

Steidl, Göttingen

Working period

2006-2008

Edition A published in 2008

Edition B published in 2018

Edition C published in 2019

Binding

Edition A:

Books: Thread sewn hardcover, clothbound, with gray linen cloth

Slipcase: White cardboard box with book titles hand stamped by Steidl team and the artist

Edition B:

Books: Thread sewn softcover with red linen stripe and gray paper, book titles hand stamped by Steidl team and the artist

Slipcase: Gray cardboard with hand painted title in Chinese ink, written by the artist

Edition C:

Books: Thread sewn softcover with red linen stripe and gray paper, book titles hand stamped by Steidl team and the artist

Slipcase: Gray linen glued to cardboard with offset printed black and red lettering

Whereabouts

Essen (edition B)

Comments

Several copies of edition A were drilled in the top left corner of the binding for installation purposes.

Edition B was distributed by the artist to his friends, galleries, and personal archive.

Book titles

  1.   The Phone Book

  2.   The Drawing Lesson no. 1

  3.   Footprints

  4. "How Long" by Ron Padgett

  5.   New Mead of Poetry

  6.   Clarence

  7. "The Slow Motion Underneath" by Jules Boykoff

  8.   Abstract Dreams of Printing

  9.   Chalk Poems, Black & White

  10.   Chalk Poems, Color

  11.   Two Talks

  12. "Barge" by Vincent Katz

  13.   Work from Nikolaistrasse

  14.   Oceans (Second Version)

  15.   Batignolles

  16.   These Europeans / Knew, (a) Long Long Time Ago

  17.   The Animal Fair

  18. / Knew About Creeley

  19.   Café de Flore

  20.   Glyptotek Drawings

  21.   Technicolor Rose

  22.   Pinocchio's Vale of Tears (in Black and White at Random)

  23.   Kaia Sand, "Tiny Ar[c]tic Ice"

  24.   Personal, Personal

  25.   Mary

  26. A History of France

  27.   Drawings From Life

  28.   Face Never Seen, Head in the Mirror

  29.   Pastoral Poem of Revenge

  30.   Kaia Sand, "Lotto"

  31.   Witnesses

  32.   The Drawing Lesson, no. 2

  33.   Santa Hell

  34.   The Flowering Sheets

  35.   Swedish & Northwest Plants & Flowers

  36.   The Woodburner Alphabet

  37.   Images of the Boy

  38.   Some Poems

  39.   Objects of Desire

  40.   Hardtalk

  41.   Dark Movie

  42.   Further Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Jim and Ron

  43.   B. H. Friedman, "Swimming Laps"

  44.   Cottonwood Days & Nights

  45.   Jesus Walking

  46.   Time Machine in Blue

  47.   Some Greeks, Some Romans 1993-1996

  48.   Ode to Sad

  49.   Bluebook, Recollections of Wittgenstein

  50.   Entrada Drive, 2nd Version

  51.   Love in the Everglades

  52.   Dine, Himself

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