Post by slipry on Jun 10, 2018 14:38:16 GMT -8
I have for sale what is considered an artist book, but is really a set of 40 unbound leaves with prints from Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Alex Katz, Jim Dine and more. This is available from source at Arion Press for $12.5k.
The whole is comprised of 40 unbound leaves in a metal cannister, the poem being interleaved with prints in various mediums by Richard Avedon, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, and Larry Rivers. Ashbery, who died in 2017, is revered as one of the great poets of the late 20th Century.
I am asking for a sale price much, much less than that. Please PM for pictures or to discuss further.
Here is an overview of the set:
Published originally in an edition of 150 in 1984, "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" was an important book in the history of Arion Press in that it marks the first collaboration with poetry critic Helen Vendler. The whole is comprised of 40 unbound leaves in a metal cannister, the poem being interleaved with prints in various mediums by Richard Avedon, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, and Larry Rivers. Ashbery, who died in 2017, is revered as one of the great poets of the late 20th Century.
In 2013, Helen Vendler wrote an article about this project for The Harvard Magazine: harvardmagazine.com/2013/09/a-nearly-perfect-book