WOODMAN**, RICHARD::VIEW FROM THE SEA - paintings by David Smith.**
- Taschenbuch 1985, ISBN: 9780712610247
Penguin Paperbacks. Near Fine. 1993. Paperback. 0140159916 . A Trade Paperback in Near Fine condition, tightly bound and unmarked with light cove scuffing and edgewear. "Combining p… Mehr…
Penguin Paperbacks. Near Fine. 1993. Paperback. 0140159916 . A Trade Paperback in Near Fine condition, tightly bound and unmarked with light cove scuffing and edgewear. "Combining painting and photography, tapestries and stained glass, artist Judy Chicago offers a work of vast, almost liturgical, power--at once a moral inquiry into the Final Solution and a moving record of her discovery of her Jewishness. Tie-in exhibit scheduled to open October 1993 in Chicago and travel across country until May 1997. 40 pages of full-color art. 150 photos. 4 gatefolds." ; 10.80 X 8.90 X 0.40 inches; 224 pages; Box 12 ., Penguin Paperbacks, 1993, 4, New York City, NY: Robert Mann Gallery, 1993. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Robert Mann Gallery, 1993. Softcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. Unpaginated. Exhibition Catalog, presented as an Artist Book. One of the most beautiful exhibition catalogs of its kind ever published. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Catalog is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Lois Guarino: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial glassine softcovers, as issued. Photograph and text by Lois Guarino. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition held at the Robert Mann Gallery in 1993. Presents Lois Guarino's "Photographs". Dream-like photo-collages. She appears in the photographs as herself, Surrealist-inspired self-portraits that inevitably echo Francesca Woodman. But her visual language and aesthetics are different from Woodman's dark and tragic self-annihilation. "The story whick links all my work is the search for definition of my own identity. Whether it is a relationship with a parent who died or my quest for an understanding of spiritual life, my work presents areas of greatest concern to me at the moment I make them. In this way, the photographs serve as a form of diary entry" (Lois Guarino) . Beautifully produced, with tact and subtlety, this is a gem. An absolute "must-have" title for Lois Guarino collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is one of only two copies of the Exhibition Catalog still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A scarce copy thus. 14 photo-collage plates. One of the most brilliant American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy., Robert Mann Gallery, 1993, 5, UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by David Smith illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip and top edges minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean, unblemished,publisher's original grey cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with immaculate plain white eps.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-192pp [paginated] includes author introduction,10 chapters,b/w line illus chapter head-pieces, b/w maps,mixture of profuse b/w+colour illustrations/paintings by David Smith throughout the text and the book,acknowledgements+ biographical note and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table and H.R.H. Prince Philip foreword. In 'View from the Sea' an artist and a seaman have combined their talents and unique perspectives to take us on a tour round the English coastline. Richard Woodman has worked for Trinity House Service for many years,servicing the lighthouses,lightvessels and buoys that ensure the safety of English waters. David Smith is an artist who has painted subjects as different as industrial scenes and the glaciers and mountains of Antarctica.By the nature of their calling both seamen and artists develop unusually high powers of observation and out of this collaboration has come a superb portrait in words and pictures of the coast of England and Wales. The authors take as their focus the lighthouses and work of the Trinity House Service and,starting in the north-east,conduct us on a journey right round the shoreline from Berwick to Maryport,telling us about rock formation and erosion,seabirds and plants,castles and hermits; describing the dangers that still confront sailors and lighthouse keepers and the horrors of industrial pollution; but at times,too,just pausing to reflect on the sheer beauty of the view. The story of our lighthouses is steeped in legend and history,from the Farne Islands,the scene of Grace Darling's heroic rescue,to St Bees,the last lighthouse on the west coast, named after an Irish princess who founded a nunnery on the same lonely headland. Many lighthouses were built only after some great seafaring tragedy.Others were the product of individual vision and determination,like the light built on the notorious Eddystone Rock by the 17thC eccentric,Henry Winstanley.Almost all of them have a story to tell.A highly informative and wonderfully evocative introduction to one of the most varied coastlines in the world. Richard Woodman also writes a series of historical novels set in the Napoleonic Wars. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.CENTURY,1985., 5<
