Exhibition monograph Folded Cyanotypes, co-published by the New Britain Museum of American Art, Municipal Bonds, and Planthouse Gallery, featuring texts by NBMAA curator Lisa Williams and Vincent Broqua, professor of literature at Université Paris 8, Vincente-Saint Dennis. Edition of 300.

$20

Seven Notes and Nine Poems

What do we see when we look at Fritz Horstman’s Folded Cyanotypes?

Are they a flight of stairs reaching up to nowhere?

Or a quilt made of similar shapes both angular and curved?

Or an iceberg seen from a plane

Clouds forever drifting

Are they mountains and valleys?

Angles and straight lines wanting to curve

the curvature of lines

Are they totally abstract

and if so, is abstraction the most remote from sensibility

or are sensibility and abstraction like the curve and the angle

forever twisted, together, embraced in present metamorphosis?

—Vincent Broqua