New Patti Smith broadside

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Paths that cross. [By Patti Smith. Illustrations by Path Soong] 
Sherburne (New York), 2005 

FIRST EDITION thus, designed by Jeff Gordon. First issue, ONE OF ONLY THIRTY 
NUMBERED COPIES printed on thick Arches drawing-paper and SIGNED BY PATTI 
SMITH as well as by the artist Path Soong (Korean-American, b. 1954) lower left, 
as issued. 

Smith herself owns the original paintings reproduced here, and apparently she 
was quite pleased with this publication: It is, she writes, "very nice". Out 
of print. The present example is numbered "19 / 30". 

According to one leading critic, Soong's "commanding yet delicate" 
abstractions can be seen as "ideographs that have turned away from their traditional 
task, which is to convey bits of language, and are doing something typically 
Western: taking the measure of the canvas." They can be "read", he says, "as light 
glimmering through darkness." * 

Caption title.  Collation: Printed boadside 333 x 217 mm (13 x 8B= inches): 
One leaf, paginated [1-2] (ie, not paginated). Text and illustrations in two 
columns, verso blank as issued.  Illustration: Two illustrations after small 
abstract paintings by Path Soong (acrylic on board, coll. Smith).  Watermarks: 
(None visible.)  Binding: (Unbound as issued.)  Condition: As new. 

* Carter Ratcliff bPath Soong at Richard Senab, Art in America xciii.9 
(October 2005) 184b85. 



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