Intima Press Editions. Mindy Belloff, 32 Union Square East, Studio 310, New York, NY 10003, USA. Tel: +1 917 412 4134. Website: https://IntimaPress.com.
Mindy Belloff. Hester . Emma . Sonia [ Joni . Annie . Tracy ] A Postmodern Feminist Discourse. 2022. 300 pp. 266 x 196 x 44 mm. Featuring: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Gustave Flaubert’s Madam Bovary, and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (abridged). Introduction, “No Text Stands Alone” by art critic Saul Ostrow, Afterword, “Through a Feminist Lens,” and Appendix with over 100 bibliographic references. Over 40 reproductions of fine artworks: paintings, drawings, photographs, and calligrams by the artist adorn the pages. A selection of text is in Latin, French, and Russian. Includes 40 reproductions of fine artworks, paintings, drawings, photographs, and calligrams by the artist. Printed on a Uni III A/B + Epson Professional. 32 copies: 26 standard, 6 deluxe in two designs. Bindings designed by Mindy Belloff. Standard edition quarter bound aqua blue Sokoto leather, spine millimeter binding, sewn and bound by Celine Lombardi with letterpress printed thick paper covers, printed by Mindy Belloff. Deluxe edition two designs: full leather bound or leather and parchment with custom box, bound by Celine Lombardi. Price standard $7,500, deluxe (POA). Two and a half years in the making, the volume gives voice to the main characters Hester Prynne, Emma Bovary, and Sonia Marmeladov. The subtitle refers to singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox and Tracy Chapman, whose poetic lyrics, along with those of other musical artists as well as text from philosophers, writers and poets such as Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag and Julia Kristeva, provide commentary in the marginalia.