Catherine Grenier Contributor (3 results)
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 256 pages. 11.75x9.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
THE POSSIBLE LIFE OF CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Christian Boltanski - SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE
Boltanski, Christian (Artist/Author); Grenier, Catherine (Editor) & Sante, Luc (Contributor)
Language: English
Published by Boston, MA: Museum Of Fine Art Publications, 2009, 2009
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.ModernRare
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 239 pages. Published in 2009. The artist's oral autobiography. One of the best art and photography books of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all…other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The title alludes to one of Christian Boltanski's masterpieces, "La Vie Impossible" ("The Impossible Life"). The book is beautifully produced, with a Preface by the culture critic Luc Sante (which appears in the American Edition only), a brilliant DJ design by Mark Polizzotti, vintage photographs appended at the center of the book, and a title page that is in continuous, "back-to-back" pages (instead of the usual single page or doublespread). Presents "The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski" in a felicitous English translation. His personal story, told entirely in the form of a series of Interviews conducted by Catherine Grenier. The beauty of Grenier's interview format is that it gives us Christian Boltanski's voice in all its acute particularity. His voice leaps off the page, resulting in a narrative that once began is impossible to put down: Intelligent, candid, and for admirers of his solemn installations and Artist Books, surprisingly and refreshingly humorous. "Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives, and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality of biography and testimony to his work, Boltanski's own story is little-known and has never been fully told. He recounts his unusual wartime childhood, his career, friendships, marriage, successes, regrets, his approaches to art and teaching, and other matters that illuminate as never before his complex, enigmatic works" (Publisher's blurb). Now that he is (really) dead, the grief one feels for the vanished Life is somehow mitigated by the timeless beauty of the Art. An absolute "must-have" title for Christian Boltanski collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Christian Boltanski. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art and photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest artists of the 20th century and our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0878467467. Signed by Author.
More imagesAlberto Giacometti, Yves Klein: In Search of the Absolute
GIACOMETTI, Alberto (artist); Joachim PISARRO (author); Danielle PETERSON SEARLS (contributor); Richard Calvocoressi (contributor); Catherine GRENIER (contributor)
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- First Edition
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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First edition. Two volumes. 11x 9.5 inches. 300 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards; pictorial slipcase. "Volume one of this beautiful new book features archival images of both artists among new texts by curator Joachim Pissarro and others, as well as never- before-translated texts by Isaku Yanaihara…, Dino Buzzati, and Pierre Descargues. Detailed illustrated chronologies for each artist complete volume one, while the colorful second volume includes color plates of all the works displayed during Gagosian Gallery's 2016 London exhibition of the same title, as well as installation images" (the publisher). A clean and bright copy.
