In this, our second volume of Witkin's photographs, the work is as controversial as ever. In often torturous or eroticized still lifes and tableaux, cadavers, physical anomalies, transsexuals and animals are carefully arranged to create a mythology that could originate only in the imagination of this singular artist. In Gods of Earth and Heaven, Witkin advances an aesthetic point of view in a manner that raises his artistic output to a new level of sophistication. As often praised as he is derided by critics, his work has ...
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In this, our second volume of Witkin's photographs, the work is as controversial as ever. In often torturous or eroticized still lifes and tableaux, cadavers, physical anomalies, transsexuals and animals are carefully arranged to create a mythology that could originate only in the imagination of this singular artist. In Gods of Earth and Heaven, Witkin advances an aesthetic point of view in a manner that raises his artistic output to a new level of sophistication. As often praised as he is derided by critics, his work has become a basis for serious debate on issues of life and death, love and sexuality. At the very least Witkin's work challenges traditional canons of beauty and the spiritual in art. An updated bibliography and exhibition history are included.
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Very good. Plastic coating of dust jacket shows heavy raised ripping and scuffs on back cover. Front cover of dust jacket has a few small scuffs and edges show some light wear.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. Generally better than VG. Slight corner bumps to front boards. Text edges clean but not pristine. First page has some black staining along bottom edge, which appears to have been transferred from black page opposite. DJ in Brodart-type mylar sleeve, has some modest wear and a small tear front. Overall, quite nice.
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Very good. First edition. Superb copy--completely free of the wrinkling that often plagues jackets of this book. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.
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Like New. Size: 13x10x0; One of 5000 case bound first editions as new clean tight and bright large format hardcover in jacket showing faint scuff. oversized and overweight. d46 Please email for photos.
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New in New jacket. Third edition. Hardcover. Fine black cloth-covered boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine and cross design stamped in silver on front cover, with black end papers and printed dust jacket. Photographs and drawings by Joel-Peter Witkin. Essays by Gus Blaisdell and John Yau, Afterword by Joel-Peter Witkin. Includes exhibition history and bibliography. 124 pp. with 52 two-and four-color plates on a matte coated paper stock. 13-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. This third edition was limited to 5000 hardbound copies. Out of print. New in New dust jacket. From the publisher: "The work is as controversial as ever...cadavers, transsexuals and animals are carefully arranged to create a mythology that could originate only in the imagination of this singular artist. The ten years work included in this collection were not reproduced in our first book of the artist's work."
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New in New jacket. Second edition. Boldly signed by Witkin. Hardcover. Fine black cloth-covered boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine and cross design stamped in silver on front cover, with black end papers and printed dust jacket. Photographs and drawings by Joel-Peter Witkin. Essays by Gus Blaisdell and John Yau, Afterword by Joel-Peter Witkin. Includes exhibition history and bibliography. 124 pp. with 52 two-and four-color plates on a matte coated paper stock. 13-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. This second edition was limited to 5000 hardbound copies. Out of print. New in New dust jacket. From the publisher: "The work is as controversial as ever...cadavers, transsexuals and animals are carefully arranged to create a mythology that could originate only in the imagination of this singular artist. The ten years work included in this collection were not reproduced in our first book of the artist's work." Signed by Author.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed to an important figure in contemporary photography (please inquire). Limited slipcased edition of 100 copies. Hardcover. Fine black cloth-covered boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine and cross design stamped in silver on front cover, with black end papers and printed dust jacket. Contained in a matching black cloth-covered slipcase. Photographs and drawings by Joel-Peter Witkin. Essays by Gus Blaisdell and John Yau, Afterword by Joel-Peter Witkin. Includes exhibition history and bibliography. 124 pp. with 52 two-and four-color plates on a matte coated paper stock. 13-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 5000 hardbound copies. Out of print. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (light surface indentations, wear to the extremities, and small areas of delamination). From the publisher: "The work is as controversial as ever...cadavers, transsexuals and animals are carefully arranged to create a mythology that could originate only in the imagination of this singular artist. The ten years work included in this collection were not reproduced in our first book of the artist's work." Signed by Author.
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