Uqbar

Designer, concept: Ines von Ketelhodt
Designer, concept: Peter Malutzki
Photographer: Ines von Ketelhodt
Images/graphics: Peter Malutzki
Letterpress printer: Ines von Ketelhodt
Letterpress printer: Peter Malutzki
Categories: Bookwork / Image-graphic Books, Letterpress Books, Offset Books, Photobooks, Small Press Books

Reference no.:L/Ket.I-Mal.P/97-06/05.03 Place/Shelf:3AL

Book title:	Uqbar
Year made:	2005
Place made:	Germany
Original:	Yes
Edition: (No. in Edition)	40 (30)
Dimensions:	125 x 200
Binder:	bound by Ricarda Rau
Physical description:	paper case binding, hard cover
Medium:	photographs, graphics overprinted
Further information:
"The volume makes use of prints from earlier volumes of the Tlön encyclopedia. These leftover sheets are overprinted with [images from] photo-polymer plates that also have been already used in the encyclopedia." (p. 222) "'Ukbar, Ucbar Ooqbar, Oukbahr ... Before leaving, he informed me it was a region in either Iraq or Asia Minor'. At the current time one cannot avoid applying the indefinable, ungraspable that is Uqbar to the present political conditions if this land is located in Iraq or somewhere in Asia Minor—and this connection between the fantastic and the world considered real is a defining property for Borges, to locationalize his observations." (p. 120) (from the catalogue)