The Homecoming (portfolio)

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
Price range: $

Harold Cohen

1968

Set of 9 lithographs
19.5" x 5.5"

NotAComputer

Portfolio Works

Description

Published in 1968, Harold Cohen’s portfolio The Homecoming is one of the artist’s final projects completed prior to his introduction to programming, while he was working as an artist and designer in the UK.

A suite of nine color lithographs, the portfolio was created to illustrate an edition of Harold Pinter’s play The Homecoming (first published in 1965). Cohen designed the book in collaboration with Robert Simon of the London-based Curwen Press. A limited edition of 200 copies was published by Karnac Books.

Seven of the nine plates are printed on individual sheets; the last two are double-page spreads. The images consist of photographic close-ups of a woman’s face and hands, with the colors altered in a manner reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s Pop art silkscreens.

Though The Homecoming has little in common with Cohen’s later work with the computer program AARON, the portfolio adds to a complete survey of his career as well as a hint of the collaborative nature of his future practice.

Plate VI Harold Cohen 1968 Print

#1 Harold Cohen 1967 Print

#2 Harold Cohen 1967 Print

Plate IX Harold Cohen 1968 Print

Imperial Harold Cohen 1964 Painting

Plate V Harold Cohen 1968 Print

Untitled (early plotter study) Harold Cohen 1972 Plotter Drawing

Untitled (numbers) Harold Cohen 1972 Plotter Drawing