The stars =
Subtitle: al-Nujūm
By: [Vija Celmins, Eliot Weinberger].
Contributors: Weinberger, Eliot.
Series: Contemporary editions
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; Distributed in the United States by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780870707049
Subjects: Celmins, Vija, -- 1939-; Stars in art; Stars -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Other titles: Nujūm
Description: An artist's book comprised of three prints by Celmins and text assembled from "descriptions of the stars from around the world"--Front cover flap.
Notes: Celmins created three celestial prints for her project. "One print, inspired by the worn binding of an early 20th-century Japanese book, becomes the volume's mottled deep-blue cover; the second and third prints are images of the night sky, one of them negative--dark stars on a pale ground. For the text, Weinberger assembled a catalogue of descriptions of the stars drawn from around the world, and from an array of historical, literary, and anthropological sources."--D.A.P. catalog.

The Stars was originally a limited-edition livre d'artiste published this year by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

"This book is a facsimile of The Stars, the third project in Contemporary Editions, a series of limited-edition books and other printed works published by the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York"--Copyright page.

English text translated into Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Maori.