Description
The first instalment in a new series of publications from Bound & Infinity. This edition includes:
The Experiment as Mediator Between Subject and Object by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
and The Primal Phenomenon of Colour by Henri Bortoft
Many definitive experiments have been done to understand colour, and each of these has in turn given rise to an image of light depicted as rays, refractions and wavelengths.
Goethe offers a different approach, where the experiment is an entry into the form itself. Beginning with a series of experiments we can meet the unity that is generative of the difference existing in nature, not “divided and in pieces”, but “alive, striving out of the whole into the parts”.
First published in 1823, The Experiment as Mediator Between Subject and Object by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Craig Holdrege, is printed here alongside The Primal Phenomenon of Colour, an abstract from The Wholeness of Nature by Henri Bortoft. Together they introduce a form of scientific inquiry Friedrich Schiller has described as “delicate empiricism”.
The colour experiments — to be viewed through the prism included in this volume — raise important questions concerning the dissolving nature of the boundary between light and dark, mind and matter, the invisible and visible.
Hand bound in Satogami and Shoji paper. Printed on bible paper using soy based inks. Includes glass prism with black and white colour experiments.
Limited to 30 copies.
The Experiment as Mediator Between Subject and Object, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bound & Infinity, 2025
