Will Self Text (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Crisp and unmarked. Illustrated full cloth binding. 87pp. Size: 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.

First edition. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. 112 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original boards; pictorial dust jacket. "This book compiles the most recent work by Luc Tuymans (born 1958), one of Belgium's most eminent painters. Accompanying a 2015 exhibition, Luc Tuymans: Birds of a Feather, it shows the artist's fascination with the Scottish Enlightenment and its thinkers, who believed in the ability of humans to shape their future rationally and whose influence extended as far as the US. Stimulated by a visit to the art collection of the University of Edinburgh, Tuymans created three small portraits of Scottish philosophers, originally painted by the 18th-century portrait artist Henry Raeburn. The theme of the Enlightenment is combined with menacing horror, such as in a monumental dark work, "The Shore," which alludes to Goya's pinturas negras, or in the portrait of the murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa. Acclaimed British novelist Will Self provides a remarkable short story for the publication, while art critic Colin Chinnery contributes an explanatory essay" (the publisher). A clean copy; no internal markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover Octavo. illustrated boards, 128 pp Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. [London]: Nobody/Archive of Modern Conflict, 2014. First edition. [72]pp; color plates. Large 4to. Decorative cloth boards; no jacket, as issued. Fine. Signed, dated in year of publication and inscribed by Gill to previous owner on half-title. Striking series of color photographs whose negatives Gill treated with various energy drinks, resulting in unpredictable and frequently psychedelic disruptions to the images. Each plate titled at base with the name of the particular energy drink used in its creation. A compelling body of work, both aesthetically and as a commentary on the chemical mediations of contemporary life. Introduction by Will Self. Inscribed by Author(s).