The stars Vija Celmins ; Eliot Weinberger

"This book is a facsimile of The Stars, the third project in Contemporary Editions, a series of limited-edition books and other printed works published by the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York"--Copyright page

Celmins created three celestial prints for her project. "One print, inspired by the worn binding of an early 20th-century Japanese book, becomes the volume's mottled deep-blue cover; the second and third prints are images of the night sky, one of them negative--dark stars on a pale ground. For the text, Weinberger assembled a catalogue of descriptions of the stars drawn from around the world, and from an array of historical, literary, and anthropological sources."--D.A.P. catalog

The Stars was originally a limited-edition livre d'artiste published this year by the Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art

Title from spine

An artist's book comprised of three prints by Celmins and text assembled from "descriptions of the stars from around the world"--Front cover flap