Brainard joe illus (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good +. First Edition. Iowa City, IA: Happy Press, 1981. Slim quarto (28cm); staple-bound illustrated wraps; [18]pp; illustrated. Wraps faded. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean with a few pencil annotations. Very Good or better anthology of poetry "cartoonized" by Dave Morice.…

First edition, signed limited issue, number 23 of 250 hardcover copies signed and numbered by Ashbery and Brainard, who in this work exemplify "the possible interplay between verbal and visual art. Brainard finds perfect complementary images to reveal further delicate facts and observations throughout" (Diggory). Joe Brainard's "drawing style was virtuosic, equal to all moods and genres, from the important 'suites' of high-contrast black ink drawings, like those in his collaboration with John Ashbery, The Vermont Notebook" (Kernan, p. 54). There were also issued an additional 26 signed and lettered copies with an original ink drawing by the artist. The trade edition was published in wrappers. Terence Diggory, Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, 2015; Nathan Kernan, "Joe Brainard: The Madonna of the Future", Joe Brainard's Art, 2019. Octavo. Title page printed in green and red. With 47 full-page monochrome illustrations by Joe Brainard, and a half-tone from a photograph of the authors. Original green quarter cloth, white paper boards, paper spine label, front cover lettered in brown and red with a black illustration by Joe Brainard, red endpapers. Binding square and firm, spine lightly sunned, foxing at head of front cover and edges, contents clean and crisp. A very good copy indeed.…