The first book-length retrospective of a major American artist, whose work has been included in both the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial.
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The first book-length retrospective of a major American artist, whose work has been included in both the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial.
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Very Good in Hardcover jacket. CG1-A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED and dated by James Drake on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has scattered scratches, rubbing and scuffing, some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Introduction by Bruce W. Ferguson, Essay by Steven Henry Madoff, Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Excerpts by Cormac McCarthy. M. Georgia Hegarty Dunkerley Contemporary Art Series. 12.25"x11.25", 236 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. An internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been honored with inclusion in both the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial, James Drake has explored political, social, and universal themes through the media of sculpture, video, installation, photography, and drawing. James Drake, the first monograph devoted to the artist, surveys thirty-five years of Drake's work up to 2007. Many of the works reproduced in James Drake reflect the artist's preoccupation with borders. Some have to do with the political border between the United States and Mexico and the inherent social and psychological tensions of people living in its extreme and unique environment. Other works explore the internal boundaries that people experience as a result of attitudes, prejudices, power, control, and arrogance. Jimmy Santiago Baca's narrative poem Huitzilopochtli, a personal response to Drake's work, provides a verbal counterpart to the artist's theme of border-crossing. Another prominent subject in Drake's work is the relationship of people and animals in particular, the animality that always lurks in human behavior. In his essay "Between Animality and Man, " critic Steven Henry Madoff traces this subject through Drake's work and shows how Drake uses it to contrast the forces of intellect and instinct, light and darkness. Interspersed among the color plates are quotations from writers as varied as Cormac McCarthy and Dante. Also accompanying the plates and essays is an introduction by Bruce W. Ferguson, a nationally known art curator, educator, and critic, that places Drake's work in an art historical context. Lists of James Drake's works, exhibitions, public collections, and awards, as well as a bibliography of works about Drake, complete this first retrospective of the oeuvre of this major, socially concerned artist, who always "tries to make work as exciting, powerful, and thought-provoking as possible."
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book 240 pages 192 illustrations 173 in color. A small minor bump to the top, right-hand corner. Rubbing and wear to the dust-jacket cover now protected with a Mylar cover. Introduction by Bruce W. Ferguson. List of Plates. Select Biography. List of Exhibitions. Select Bibliography.
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New. 0292718608. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--238 pages. --with a bonus offer--
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Good- jacket. Signed. SIGNED BY JAMES DRAKE ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Very Good in Good-unclipped dust jacket. Gently used with NO markings in text; Rubbing and creasing to edges and corners of Dust Jacket, now in brodart. Overall, binding is tight, pages are clean and bright. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Signed by Artist. Briefly inscribed and SIGNED by James Drake on fly leaf. Book and dust jacket in unworn condition, unmarked otherwise. International shipping will require additional postage due to bulk.
