Derek Walcott Francesco Clemente (6 results)

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; 32 pages; very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

[32] pp.; 21.5 x 30.3 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Deitch Projects, New York, May 2 - 30, 2009. Essay by Derek Walcott. Very Good / Fine. Light shelf wear including a 5.5 cm. scratch to recto. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to size and weight additional shipping charges may be required for international orders.…

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; 32 pages; very good condition; small abrasion to rear cover; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Signed First Edition. As new. Signed by Francesco Clemene on title page. First edition. Signed. Signed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Throughout the sensual relationship that Francesco Clemente (born 1952) has cultivated with paper surfaces runs the idea of the palimpsest--the manuscript page or parchment, often torn from a book, from which text has been effaced so that the surface can be re-used. By virtue of their accumulated layers of traces, palimpsests are enormously evocative objects--evocative of human and material impermanence and the vast scale of human history. Clemente's relationship with the histories of the inscribed page is widely known and celebrated; he has reinvigorated the idioms of both Indian and Italian manuscript painting, and has collaborated with poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley and Renà Ricard. This volume takes the palimpsest as a metaphor for Clemente's art, from early works on paper to large-format paintings and more recent, monumental watercolors.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Francesco Clemente's new Three Rainbows project had a prolonged gestation; for years he had wanted to use watercolor and to paint rainbows, but only recently did the moment ripen. Three Rainbows began as three 60-foot long rainbow paintings--probably the largest watercolors ever made. For Clemente, whose attraction to given forms (such as the mandala) has long formed an integral part of his iconography, the rainbow suggests a number of important interpretations: it is a bridge (and therefore a structure that brings things together), a phenomenon that occurs after a period of darkness (Clemente's works of recent years had darkened noticeably) and a reversible image capable of leading the eye in opposite directions. The artist's affinity for watercolor derives in part from the medium's immediacy--an ideal vehicle for Allen Ginsberg's "first thought, best thought"--and these works betray his spontaneity and joy in making them.…