Relinquo
By: by Daniela Deeg and Cynthia Lollis
Contributors: Lollis, Cynthia; Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.; Etc. Press
Publisher: Etc. Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Germany]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Artists' books; Pictorial works
Notes: Relinquo (to abandon) pairs Ovid's version of Ariadne's abandonment by Theseus with the story of Ovid's banishment. The Latin text of the book was written by Publius Ovidus Naso (43 BC-AD 17). Translations into English and German are tucked within the Ariadne side. Ovid was expelled from Rome by Emperor Augustus in AD 8 to the edge of his Empire for two crimes: "a poem and a blunder" [carment et error]. Twelve years before Ovid's exile, he wrote the Heroides, a collection of letters by fictional women to their lovers. In letter X, Ariadne addresses Theseus after he sneaks away the morning after she helped him escape the labyrinth of her half-brother, the Minotaur.

Artists' book consisting of photographs and text on 1 leaf folded 14 times between boards; issued in box.

Title from box lid; imprint from colophon.

Photographs taken in and around Rome by Cynthia Lollis and Daniela Deeg; text from Ovid's Heroides.  Cf. colophon.

Limited edition of 32 numbered copies, signed by the artists.

Rare Book copy: No. 28.

Text in Latin with English and German translations.