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Glen Horowitz Exhibition: _Vera's Butterflies_
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EDITOR's NOTE. Sarah Funke <SarahFunke@aol.com> of Glenn Horowitz
Bookseller, Inc., is the author-compiler of VERA'S BUTTERFLIES, described
below. Those interested in acquiring the elegant illustrated volume and
artist Barbara Bloom's commemorative stamps (done for the installation),
should contact Sarah Horowitz directly. There is a substantial discount
for NABOKV-L subscribers.
The Glenn Horowitz Exhibition is a part of the NYC activities
honoring the NABOKOV CEntenary. These include the Town Hall panel (April
15), the NYPL opening (April 22, 23), and our book exhibit opening (April
20).
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION:
REVISED EVIDENCE: VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S INSCRIPTIONS, ANNOTATIONS, CORRECTIONS,
AND BUTTERFLY DESCRIPTIONS. AN INSTALLATION DESIGNED BY BARBARA BLOOM.
NEW YORK: GLENN HOROWITZ BOOKSELLER GALLERY, APRIL 21-JUNE 18, 1999.
VEÉRA'S BUTTERFLIES: FIRST EDITIONS BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV INSCRIBED TO HIS
WIFE. BY SARAH FUNKE. NEW YORK: GLENN HOROWITZ BOOKSELLER, INC., 1999.
In the fall of 1998, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller acquired nearly two hundred
books by Vladimir Nabokov, all from his own library. These range from rare
Russian editions of his early poetry and novels to his works in English; they
include the only known copy of a 1918 collection of Russian poetry and his
annotated copy of Lolita. Dozens of these volumes are inscribed with
Nabokov's hand-drawn butterflies to his wife, Veéra. Married in 1925, they
had
one child-Dmitri, who became his father's primary translator-and lived
together in Berlin, Paris, the United States, and Switzerland, where Nabokov
died in 1977. Throughout their 52 years together, Veéra was his first
audience, his editor, proofreader, agent, secretary, amanuensis, chauffeur,
and best friend.
In celebration of the acquisition of the Nabokov library, Glenn Horowitz
Bookseller announces an event and publication to coincide with the
centennial of his birth on April 23, 1999. Barbara Bloom will incorporate
approximately 100 volumes from the library into an installation designed
at the Glenn Horowitz Bookseller gallery, from April 21 through June 18,
1999: Revised Evidence: Vladimir Nabokov's inscriptions, annotations,
corrections, and butterfly descriptions. The name of the exhibition plays
off of the title of Nabokov's memoir, Conclusive Evidence, which he later
renamed Speak, Memory. Bloom's work has been shown in major museums
worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Museum of
Contemporary Art (LA), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), and the Stedelijk
Museum (Amsterdam). Her honors include the Frederick Weisman Foundation
Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Due Mille Prize at
the Venice Biennale, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Wexner Center
Residency Award. Bloom incorporated her photographs of Nabokov's butterfly
catches housed at Cornell University and excerpts from his texts into
Never Odd or Even at the Carnegie Museum of Art; into a printed
accompaniment to her recent retrospective at the Wexner Center; and in a
portfolio for Grand Street, where Howard Halle noted that Bloom's
exhibitions echo and expand upon each other: "The bridge between them is a
series of books that Bloom has published in lieu of conventional
catalogues that would simply document her work, revealing her very
nineteenth-century obsession with text as allowing her to elaborate the
myriad references that, taken together, compose an overall conceptual
frame work for her oeuvre. One such point of reference in Bloom's recent
work has been butterfly collecting." For the current exhibition, in which
she has replicated some of Nabokov's own cases of butterflies and examined
his textual revisitations in tandem with his scientific processes, she has
prepared a collection of commemorative stamps elaborating on the themes of
the show: collection, recollection, commemoration, memory, mimicry,
revision, correction, inscription, dedication, and annotation.
Veéra's Butterflies: First editions by Vladimir Nabokov inscribed to his
wife, a biblio- and biographical history of Nabokov's career by Sarah
Funke, will be published in April, 1999 by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. It
will include a previously unpublished excerpt from Nabokov's Lolita
screenplay, accompanied by an essay by Michael Wood. It will also print
essays by several prominent Nabokovians and scholars: his biographer Brian
Boyd; Veéra's biographer Stacy Schiff; entomologist Kurt Johnson;
novelist and memoirist James Salter; and Stephen Jay Gould.
Vladimir Nabokov is a figure unique in literary history. Never before has
a such a multi-faceted writer had primary audiences in two languages and
four countries. Born in St. Petersburg in 1899 into an intellectually and
politically liberal household and educated at Cambridge, he devoted his
16-year emigration in Berlin to developing his gifts as a Russian writer,
and became a leader of the Russian literary community. He published
poetry, chess problems, criticism, translations (to and from French,
English, and Russian), plays, and nine novels in the most prominent émigré
journals in Berlin and Paris under the pseudonym "Sirin." During the two
years he spent in Paris before his emigration to America he wrote his
first novel in English. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight marked the
beginning of his career as an American writer, a career which extended
into his final two decades, in Switzerland. He ultimately achieved an
unrivalled level of popularity, controversy, and distinction, with five
National Book Award-nominated novels and story collections; multiple
translations and studies of Russian literature in English; and
translations of all of his Russian novels into English, as well as two of
his most important English works-Lolita, and his memoir, Speak,
Memory-into Russian for Sirin fans. All the while, he advanced the study
of lepidoptera at Harvard, the American Museum of Natural History in New
York, and at Cornell, where he taught literature for nearly a decade.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm.
Contact: Sarah Funke
Bookseller, Inc., is the author-compiler of VERA'S BUTTERFLIES, described
below. Those interested in acquiring the elegant illustrated volume and
artist Barbara Bloom's commemorative stamps (done for the installation),
should contact Sarah Horowitz directly. There is a substantial discount
for NABOKV-L subscribers.
The Glenn Horowitz Exhibition is a part of the NYC activities
honoring the NABOKOV CEntenary. These include the Town Hall panel (April
15), the NYPL opening (April 22, 23), and our book exhibit opening (April
20).
-------------------
VLADIMIR NABOKOV CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION:
REVISED EVIDENCE: VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S INSCRIPTIONS, ANNOTATIONS, CORRECTIONS,
AND BUTTERFLY DESCRIPTIONS. AN INSTALLATION DESIGNED BY BARBARA BLOOM.
NEW YORK: GLENN HOROWITZ BOOKSELLER GALLERY, APRIL 21-JUNE 18, 1999.
VEÉRA'S BUTTERFLIES: FIRST EDITIONS BY VLADIMIR NABOKOV INSCRIBED TO HIS
WIFE. BY SARAH FUNKE. NEW YORK: GLENN HOROWITZ BOOKSELLER, INC., 1999.
In the fall of 1998, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller acquired nearly two hundred
books by Vladimir Nabokov, all from his own library. These range from rare
Russian editions of his early poetry and novels to his works in English; they
include the only known copy of a 1918 collection of Russian poetry and his
annotated copy of Lolita. Dozens of these volumes are inscribed with
Nabokov's hand-drawn butterflies to his wife, Veéra. Married in 1925, they
had
one child-Dmitri, who became his father's primary translator-and lived
together in Berlin, Paris, the United States, and Switzerland, where Nabokov
died in 1977. Throughout their 52 years together, Veéra was his first
audience, his editor, proofreader, agent, secretary, amanuensis, chauffeur,
and best friend.
In celebration of the acquisition of the Nabokov library, Glenn Horowitz
Bookseller announces an event and publication to coincide with the
centennial of his birth on April 23, 1999. Barbara Bloom will incorporate
approximately 100 volumes from the library into an installation designed
at the Glenn Horowitz Bookseller gallery, from April 21 through June 18,
1999: Revised Evidence: Vladimir Nabokov's inscriptions, annotations,
corrections, and butterfly descriptions. The name of the exhibition plays
off of the title of Nabokov's memoir, Conclusive Evidence, which he later
renamed Speak, Memory. Bloom's work has been shown in major museums
worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Museum of
Contemporary Art (LA), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), and the Stedelijk
Museum (Amsterdam). Her honors include the Frederick Weisman Foundation
Award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Due Mille Prize at
the Venice Biennale, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Wexner Center
Residency Award. Bloom incorporated her photographs of Nabokov's butterfly
catches housed at Cornell University and excerpts from his texts into
Never Odd or Even at the Carnegie Museum of Art; into a printed
accompaniment to her recent retrospective at the Wexner Center; and in a
portfolio for Grand Street, where Howard Halle noted that Bloom's
exhibitions echo and expand upon each other: "The bridge between them is a
series of books that Bloom has published in lieu of conventional
catalogues that would simply document her work, revealing her very
nineteenth-century obsession with text as allowing her to elaborate the
myriad references that, taken together, compose an overall conceptual
frame work for her oeuvre. One such point of reference in Bloom's recent
work has been butterfly collecting." For the current exhibition, in which
she has replicated some of Nabokov's own cases of butterflies and examined
his textual revisitations in tandem with his scientific processes, she has
prepared a collection of commemorative stamps elaborating on the themes of
the show: collection, recollection, commemoration, memory, mimicry,
revision, correction, inscription, dedication, and annotation.
Veéra's Butterflies: First editions by Vladimir Nabokov inscribed to his
wife, a biblio- and biographical history of Nabokov's career by Sarah
Funke, will be published in April, 1999 by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. It
will include a previously unpublished excerpt from Nabokov's Lolita
screenplay, accompanied by an essay by Michael Wood. It will also print
essays by several prominent Nabokovians and scholars: his biographer Brian
Boyd; Veéra's biographer Stacy Schiff; entomologist Kurt Johnson;
novelist and memoirist James Salter; and Stephen Jay Gould.
Vladimir Nabokov is a figure unique in literary history. Never before has
a such a multi-faceted writer had primary audiences in two languages and
four countries. Born in St. Petersburg in 1899 into an intellectually and
politically liberal household and educated at Cambridge, he devoted his
16-year emigration in Berlin to developing his gifts as a Russian writer,
and became a leader of the Russian literary community. He published
poetry, chess problems, criticism, translations (to and from French,
English, and Russian), plays, and nine novels in the most prominent émigré
journals in Berlin and Paris under the pseudonym "Sirin." During the two
years he spent in Paris before his emigration to America he wrote his
first novel in English. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight marked the
beginning of his career as an American writer, a career which extended
into his final two decades, in Switzerland. He ultimately achieved an
unrivalled level of popularity, controversy, and distinction, with five
National Book Award-nominated novels and story collections; multiple
translations and studies of Russian literature in English; and
translations of all of his Russian novels into English, as well as two of
his most important English works-Lolita, and his memoir, Speak,
Memory-into Russian for Sirin fans. All the while, he advanced the study
of lepidoptera at Harvard, the American Museum of Natural History in New
York, and at Cornell, where he taught literature for nearly a decade.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm.
Contact: Sarah Funke