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Lost Horizon (1947)



                                        	   
   
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                              One of my series of ‘Book-Paintings’ in which I make
                              a copy of a cover or title page of a book in mono chrome.
                              is is the title page of the 1947 paperback edition of

                              James Hilton’s bestseller, Lost Horizon (1932), which is
                              feted as being the first ever paperback.


                              e painting is done in gold to give is a precious and

                              luxur ious feeling. At first the viewer perceives a rectangle
                              of a single colour, but on approaching, they can make out
                              the text, which is painted in relief. A shi occurs between
                              seeing, reading, and ‘touching’.
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