Fernie John C (4 results)

1949, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 216pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Illustrations by W. Redver Stark. Jacket illustration by John Fernie. Locale. (Canada).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Liege, Belgium: Yellow Now, 1975. No. 116 from a total edition of 125. 21, [3]pp; 17 b&w mounted photo plates. Saddle-sewn in printed wraps covered with parchment. Near fine, with soft crease to upper corner of first four leaves. Fifteen brief prose meditations on fluvial and alluvial themes, each dated between 5.21.73 to 9.3.73 and accompanied by small black-and-white mounted photographs, many but not all of rivers and streams. Fernie, as far as we can determine, an American sculptor (and book artist) born in 1945. Of this intriguing publication, OCLC locates only four holdings, all in France.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thick quarto, unpaginated (approx. 300 pages), illustrated throughout. Wrappers soiled, inside fine. - First edition. Exhibition March 26 - April 30, 1972. Includes: Boltanksi's 'Reconstitution de gestes effectués entre 1948 et 1954'. (first self-published in 1970 in an edition of 500 copies) + 'Essais de reconstitution d'objets ayant appartenu a Christian Boltanski entr 1948 et 1954' (first published in 1971 in an edition of 3000 copies); Jean Le Gac: avril 68 - septembre 71; Ben with a great number of documents published by Ben + John C. Fernie contributes 51 pages about which he writes;" These historical documents establish relationships, visually or otherwise, that I found important or amusing. / A series deals with a specific problem: sharpness of vision. I mainly use a question-and-response method. / The other series reflects and reviews excerpts of my life, of which I happened to have photographs. / I sometimes deal with problems that require a considerable degree of control of object and viewer. Added: A 42 page off-print of Christian Boltanski's contribution to this catalogue that includes: 'Reconstitution de gestes effectués entre 1948 et 1954'. + 'Essais de reconstitution d'objets ayant appartenu a Christian Boltanski entre 1948 et 1954' + text by Boltanski, a short bio-bibliography + text by Gilbert Lascault, published earlier in XXe Siecle, Nr 36, June 1971 pages 143-145. Texts in German and French.…

30x21 cm. Ca. 300 n.n. S. Mit s/w. Abbildungen. Originalbroschur. Originalausgabe des wichtigen Kataloges. Mit einer Einführung von Jean-Christophe Ammann. Texte in den Originalsprachen und Deutsch. - Rücken gebräunt.