Nancy Spero, Alphabet of Hieroglyphs I and II

Amsterdam, Roma publications, 2008. Set of 2 silkscreen posters, 82 x 121 each, featuring an inventory of all motifs from Spero's zinc and polymer plates since 1975. Edition of 200. Edited by Roel Arkesteijn, designed by Connie Nijman and Roger Willems. Published in collaboration with De Appel, Amsterdam. In original cardboard roll with Roma label. Very good copy. (total 2)

Nancy Spero (1926-2009) was a leading figure in the feminist art movement of the 1960s. Her drawings and collages are inspired by ancient mythologies and iconography. She developed a pictographic language of physical gestures and motion, or hieroglyphics, reconstructing the diversity of representations of women from prehistory to the present.