[554] pp. Thick 8vo (194 x 129 mm.), orig. blue screen-printed covers with flaps, Ota-style sewn binding, title screen-printed on spine. Berlin: backbonebooks, 2025.

A vibrant homage by Claudia de la Torre (b. 1986) to Virginia Woolf’s 1931 novel, this artist’s book replaces nearly all of the original book’s text with richly printed color pages determined by colors mentioned in the text. The colors and the pages on which they appear are screen-printed on the flaps of the covers.

From the artist’s website: “The Waves by Virginia Woolf resists linear narrative, unfolding instead through rhythm, repetition, and interior voices. Inspired... More