The Prologue, The Poltergeist & The Hollow Tree

The Prologue, The Poltergeist & The Hollow Tree Jimmy Raskin 2005Foundation 20 21 Edited by Miguel Abreu & Christopher Nicolson Designed by Jimmy Raskin; POLLEN, New York Hardcover, clothbound, 6x8 inches, 173pp., 49 color. Limited edition of 900 copies.ISBN 1-891027-15-8 When Nietzsche called for the artist as the new ideal, Jimmy Raskin responded and not a moment too late here in the 21st century. This book is a beautiful collaboration of the visual and the philosophical. Jimmy Raskin is the tightrope walker in his revisitation of Nietzsche's classic Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This thought-provoking book is a eulogy to one of the masters of existential thinking who questioned every aspect of being. Combining text with drawings, collages and a series of stunning diagrams, Jimmy Raskin's highly original book investigates the figures of the Poet and his counterpart, the Philosopher, and proceeds to anatomize their delicate relationship on the path to the Overman. Raskin's in