MEMENTO MORI: TESTAMENT TO LIFE: PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART BY ERIKA DIETTES - Scarce Pristine/Shrinkwrapped Copy of The Limited Slipcased Edition: Double-Signed by Erika Diettes - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE
Language: English
Published by Staunton, Virginia: George F. Thompson Publisher, 2015, 2016
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Condition: Used - As new
£ 128.46
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1st Printing. Signed. 250 pages. Published in 2015. Retrospective Monograph, presented as an Artist Book. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. The first and only edition. The Limited Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Erika Diettes and David Skolkin: Oversize-volumes format. There are two volumes: "The Installations" (Volume 1) and "The Plates" (Volume 2). Black cloth boards with titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs, art, and text by Erika Diettes. Essays by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Ileana Dieguez. Publisher's clear plastic slipcase. Publisher's original shrinkwrap. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Erika Diettes' "Memento Mori: Testament To Life". Her poignant tribute to the victims of Colombia's armed conflict, which has claimed more than 250, 000 lives. "Presented as four bodies of photographic work in a two-volume, bilingual edition. The first volume includes hauntingly beautiful images of Diettes' photographic work on display at museums and memorials in areas where the victims 'disappeared', a moving Statement by the artist herself, an Essay by Mexican scholar Ileana Dieguez, and an extensive Conversation with the artist by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Curator of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts Houston. The second volume showcases the plates from three photographic series: 'Sudarios' ('Shrouds'), photographs printed on linen of women who have witnessed atrocities committed against their loved ones; 'Rio Abajo' ('Drifting Away'), images of articles of clothing of 'the disappeared', photographed in water and embedded in glass; and 'Relicarios' ('Reliquaries'), three-dimensional works of polymer containing mementos and personal effects of the victims" (Publisher's blurb). Erika Diettes' work is in the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, among other major venues, and is exhibited alongside that of Christian Boltanski and Gordon Matta-Clark. Diettes holds a Master's Degree in Anthropology and was recently selected as one of the leading 180 thinkers in Latin America. An absolute "must-have" title for Erika Diettes collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition, indicated as such on the Back Limitation Page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on both volumes by Erika Diettes. It is signed directly on the pages themselves, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art and photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the Limited Edition available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ERIKA DIETTES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1938086325.…
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- Title
- MEMENTO MORI: TESTAMENT TO LIFE: PHOTOGRAPHS AND ART BY ERIKA DIETTES - Scarce Pristine/Shrinkwrapped Copy of The Limited Slipcased Edition: Double-Signed by Erika Diettes - ONLY SIGNED COPY ONLINE
- Author
- Diettes, Erika (Artist/Photographer); Tucker, Anne Wilkes & Dieguez, Ileana (Contributors)
- Publisher
- Staunton, Virginia: George F. Thompson Publisher, 2015
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- None, As Issued
- Signed
- Signed by Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1938086325
- ISBN 13
- 9781938086328
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
Memento Mori: Testament to Life is a poignant tribute to the victims of Colombia’s armed conflict that has claimed more than 250,000 people during the last fifty years. The book is presented as four bodies of photographic work in a two-volume, bi-lingual edition: English and Spanish.
The first volume includes hauntingly beautiful images of Diettes’s photographic work on display at museums and at memorials in areas where the victims “disappeared,” a moving statement by the artist herself, an essay by Mexican scholar Ileana Diéguez, and an extensive conversation with the artist by Anne Wilkes Tucker, former Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The second volume showcases the plates from three photographic series: Sudarios (Shrouds), photographs printed on linen of women who have witnessed atrocities committed against their loved ones, Río Abajo (Drifting Away), images of articles of clothing of “the disappeared,” photographed in water and embedded in glass, and Relicarios (Reliquaries), three-dimensional works of polymer containing mementos and personal effects of the victims.
At once majestic, accessible, and deeply moving, this book makes a significant contribution not only to documentary art, contemporary Latin American studies, and social anthropology but also to those wanting to understand, at a very basic level, the human cost of terrorism. As Anne Wilkes Tucker writes, Erika Diettes’s unforgettable book speaks “of universal loss from violent death.” And it is through her art that we learn how to grieve from such loss.
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About the Author
Anne Wilkes Tucker is the former Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. From 1976, when she founded the Department of Photography at MFAH, until her retirement in June 2015, she organized or co-organized more than forty exhibitions of photography, including retrospectives on Brassaï, Louis Faurer, Robert Frank, George Krause, Ray K. Metzker, Richard Misrach, and, most recently, “WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath,” and expanded the museum’s photographic holdings from 141 images to more than 29,000, representing work by some 4,000 artists from all seven continents. In 2001, she was named America’s best curator by TIME magazine.
Ileana Diéguez is a research professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City, where she works on issues of modern and performing arts, as well as the processes pertaining to performativity and disassembly. She has curated exhibitions on these themes in Mexico and South America, and is the author of several books including Cuerpos sin duelo. Iconografías y teatralidades del dolor/Bodies Without Mourning. Iconographies and Theatricalities of Pain (Document A, 2013), and Escenarios Liminales. Teatralidades, performances y política/Liminal Stages/Scenarios. Theatricalities, Performances and Politics (Atuel 2011).
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