The artists speak about the making of the book; John Brandi reads the text in English translation

From the Palace Press website:

Bruno Caruso (1927—2018) was a Sicilian painter, etcher, illustrator, and writer. A courageous and outspoken stance on social issues of the 20th century brought him worldwide respect. His prolific body of art and writing is arresting in its extent and quality, but his 1965 La Mano dell’Uomo, published as a New Year greeting, is a rarity. It is here presented in translation and in expanded form. In La Mano dell’Uomo this gifted artist pays homage to the skills and competencies of the human hand in combination with the human mind’s capacity for creativity, invention, tradition, and even harm. 

Palace Press curator Thomas Leech and Lynn Sures, an internationally recognized paper artist, collaborated on the making of this distinctive limited edition. Following the book to its origin, the artists returned to Fabriano, Italy, a birthplace of European papermaking, to produce the sheets required for the edition. During their 2019 residency at the Museo della Carta e della Filigrana (The Museum of Paper and Watermark), the artists made 900 sheets of paper by hand. Those papers bear historic watermarks from Fabriano’s celebrated past.