"Cells of Ourselves" includes fifty drawings (ten reproduced in full colour) organized allusively around the idea of a cage, presented alongside a prose commentary on the images. The drawings are all very small and reproduced, for the most part, size as. Tiny, but complex and richly detailed, these teeming miniature drawings are endlessly explorable meditations on the idea of the cage, the enclosure, the cordoned-off area: this cage theme encompasses everything from the calligraphic wrought-iron erected like architectonic ...
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"Cells of Ourselves" includes fifty drawings (ten reproduced in full colour) organized allusively around the idea of a cage, presented alongside a prose commentary on the images. The drawings are all very small and reproduced, for the most part, size as. Tiny, but complex and richly detailed, these teeming miniature drawings are endlessly explorable meditations on the idea of the cage, the enclosure, the cordoned-off area: this cage theme encompasses everything from the calligraphic wrought-iron erected like architectonic ivy around French grave sites to depictions of animals in zoos, historical artefacts in glass cases, buildings within walls, anatomies of the Paris Metro cars, even an eloquent up-close exploration of the fearsome nature of an ordinary fly-swatter. Running through all these drawings of cages and grids is a common theme: that what is "inside" an enclosure is not so much a part of the greater world held captive, but rather a part of the world now intimately focussed for our inspection. The act of entrapment (mimicked, to some extent, by the artist) becomes an act of homage, an endeavour to hold something still so that its true nature can be understood, so that it becomes possible to see the world in a grain of sand rather than to see moments of selected experience as moments endlessly lost in flux, endlessly condemned to freedom and dissolution. Here the task of both artist and writer is to see much in little -- which is one of the states of reverie that leads to freedom.
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Fine in fine jacket. Oblong 8vo. Light gray cloth with embossed front board, with black spine titles. Dark gray end papers. 94 pages. With b/w and color drawings. No names or marks. In illustrated dust-jacket (with price intact).
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Very good. Very clean hardcover with jacket no marks. clean text. solid binding. very light wear. ISBN matches listing FAST SHIPPING W/ CONFIRMATION. NO PRIORITY OR INTERNATIONAL ORDERS OVER 4LBs.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0889841144. ABout new but for store stamp to half-title page and inscription to front endpaper; in glossy dust jacket.; 9.06 X 8.36 X 0.50 inches; 96 pages.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. pp.94 Drawings by Urquhart elaborated upon and arranged around the idea of a cage. clean tight copy d/j shows minuscule crinkling to top edges Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
