Proposition Player by Ritchie Matthew (13 results)

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Condition: Very Good. A very nice copy. The pages are clean and unmarked. The binding is tight.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Modest shelfwear to cover, clean pages and sound binding.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ex-library: no jacket as issued, sticker residue to top edge of front panel and spine, stamps to top edge, fore edge and bookplate to front pastedown. Clean pages and sound binding.

Flexible covers. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Laminated pictorial boards. Color illustrations. Flexiboard binding. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 134 pp.

Softcover with flexible boards, 136 pages, as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Essays by Laura Steward Heon & Jenelle Porter. 164 pages, illustrated. A clean fine paperback exhibition catalog in stiff wrappers (soft cover book).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean with no marks or inscriptions. Light shelf wear.

hardcover. Condition: fine. First. Color illustrations throughout. 134 pages. Oblong 4to, flexible pictorial boards. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum/Hatje Kantz, (2003). First edition. A fine copy. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same now, shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, December 12, 2003-March 14, 2004. With contributions from Laura Steward Heon, Janelle Porter, and Thyrza Goodeve. RITCHIE, Matthew (illustrator).…

Exhibition invite, 6 x 9 inches; very good condition; a few abrasions ot rear; a mailed copy with address and postal marks on reverse.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Signed & inscribed by Matthew Ritchie to the previous owner on the front free end page. Hardbound, no dust jacket, as issued. inscribed by Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Paintings, installations and works in various media by Matthew Ritchie. Essays by Lynn M. Herbert, Laura Steward Heon, Jenelle Porter, and a conversation with the artist by Thyrza Nichols Goodeve. Includes a catalogue of the exhibition, biography, exhibition history, list of artist's projects and a bibliography. 136 pp., with 55 four-color and 40 black-and-white plates. 8-3/4 x 11-1/8 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Fine. From the publisher: "In 1995, British artist Matthew Ritchie embarked on an extraordinary undertaking: he set out to tell the story of everything, from the Big Bang onward. His tale was to be told in paintings and drawings through a core group of 49 characters drawn from sources as diverse as mythology, quantum physics, alchemy, gambling, biblical tales, and pulp fiction. With Proposition Player, Ritchie's first major solo museum exhibition and accompanying catalogue, his narrative has reached a 'climax, collapse, and crisis'--the story has morphed into a game and Ritchie has created a veritable information casino. Accompanying the paintings and drawings for which the artist is internationally known are works in new media, including a 100-foot-long three-dimensional drawing, an interactive craps table with digital animation that invites viewers to roll the dice for the future of the universe, an enormous rubble floor mosaic that invites viewers to walk into the heart of the piece, and a deck of cards featuring Ritchie's cast of characters.". …