Lucero Michael Mark Richard Leach (6 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition. 159 p., well illustrated [otob: 35] Size: Oversize.

Softcover, 160 pages, new condition, still sealed in shrinkwrap; clean and crisp. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 160 pages, very good condition, clean and crisp; no internal marks. . Foreign shipping may be extra.

Lucero's colourful, imaginative sculptures and ceramics synthesize diverse forms and influences?bottle trees and face jugs inspired by African art; a hanging ram and blood-red sacred hearts with roots in Mexico; looming stick figures suggestive of Native American rock art; delicate totem poles that evoke Pacific Northwest Indian cultures. Hybrid animals, found objects, jug-headed infants in baby carriages and dreamers who externalize the contents of their dreams in multilayered glazes animate the work of this California-born artist, now living in New York. Published to accompany a travelling exhibition that opened at the Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, N.C.), this volume reproduces 47 of Lucero's glazed ceramic, bronze and mixed-media creations in full-page colour plates. Co-curator Bloemink finds pervasive echoes of surrealism and Dada in Lucero's improvisations. Art historian Lippard relates his themes of intercultural exchange to his family history; his ancestors, practicing Sephardic Jews, escaped persecution in Spain by migrating to New Mexico. Also included is an interview with Lucero by Leach, the exhibition curator. 160 pages, 74 colour and 58 b&w illustrations. Blue cloth in dustjacket, lightly sunned towards spine, otherwise fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, inscribed and with an original drawing of a face by Lucero on front endpaper, slight lean, faint foxing to fore-edge, otherwise a Near Fine copy in like dustjacket.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 4to. Pp. 159. Selected bibliography, index. With 74 color and 58 b/w illustrations. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, artist's name in blind on front board. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of this monograph on the sculptor who passed away two years after publication. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector.