Berry Wendell Coke Deren Tannenbaum (4 results)

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Full gray cloth. Book has foxing to the upper page edges. There is some sunning to the extreme upper edges and also the lower spine end. The dust jacket has 1/2" tear and some creasing to the upper spine end. Minor wear to the upper edges. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 207 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near Fine 9" x 12" grey cloth over boards, blind stamped title to cover, black lettering stamped to spine, very slight cock to spine, else free of visible shelf-wear, sharp tips, tight binding, clean and unmarked throughout. Very Good shiny bronze dustjacket featuring the 1962 photograph, "Romance (N.) From Ambrose Bierce #3" to front cover, the 1960 photograph, "Cemetery #32 [Double portrait on gravestone] to back cover, edges shelf-worn but clean, intact, not price-clipped, and protected by a paper-backed mylar sleeve. 207 pp. replete with 108 full-page plates of Ralph Eugene Meatyard's duotone images. Includes a Foreword by Michael D. Kahan, Acknowledgements, a List of Illustrations,Chronology of the Artist's Life, Exhibition History, Bibliograhy, Notes, and four essays by curator Barbara Tannenbaum, art department chairman David L. Jacobs, photographer Van Deren Coke, and poet Wendell Berry, respectively. This publication accompanied an exhibition of the same title organized by the Akron Art Museum and selected by Barbara Tannenbaum and David L. Jacobs. The exhibition tour included the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art September 6 to November 10, 1991, the Oklahoma City Art Museum December 8, 1991 to February 12, 1992, the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution July 3 to September 27, 1992, the Newport Harbor Art Museum December 18, 1992 to February 14, 1993, and the Akron Art Museum June 19 to August 15, 1993. FRom the dustjacket: "An optician by trade, Meatyard quickly abandoned the photographer's role as a passive observer and flouted some of straight photography's most hallowed conventions-including sharp focus and a wide range of tonal gradation-in his search for a new way of seeing." A gift-worthy copy of a sometimes overlooked master of the craft. Heavy and oversized items may require additional shipping.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine/As New cloth-bound hardcover in a Fine/As New dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The catalogue for a major traveling exhibition of the work of Meatyard (1925-1972,) a photographer whose work defies convention and has been called visionary, surrealistic, and meditative. A comprehensive survey of his career. Photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard; essays by Barbara Tannenbaum, Van Deren Coke, David L. Jacobs, and Wendell Berry. 208 pages; 108 full-page duo-toned b&w plates; 9.25 x 12.25 inches. Chronology, exhibition history, bibliography.