Buy this book on-line Mills, Joseph : The Loves Of The PoetsNazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ, 2005 ISBN 1590051270
First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 32 pages. Artist Book. One of the most beautiful and most important photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 2000 copies. The first and only edition. A brilliant production by Joseph Mills and Chris Pichler: Oversize-volume format. Green velvet boards with matching leatherette overboards and gilt titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographic collage art by Joseph Mills. There is no text. Gilt page edges. Purple endpapers. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Joseph Mills' "The Loves of A Poet". The artist/photographer's new collection of photomontages. They are (as the title suggests) about love, which add up to an Artist Book of breathtaking beauty. "Beautifully raw, disturbingly seductive collages, a work of art unto itself. Collages that seem to be on the verge of complete revelation but time and again leave the viewer on a suspended note. The success of these images lies in the fact that they are anchored in reality just enough so that we are on the edge between surreality and reality. Beautifully reproduced with antique paper backgrounds and a rich double varnish, bringing the marriage of artist and book to a new level" (Publisher's blurb). "Mills uses techniques to convince us that the surreal is real. Ordinary daily rituals are suddenly transfigured by our worst fears. Reality is out of control. Fears that we usually suppress may not be baseless. The images exist on the edge of horror and beauty" (Anne Wilkes Tucker). If that sounds like a very good description of Max Ernst or Man Ray's art, it is because the best of Joseph Mills's photomontages are worthy of comparison with these masters of visual surprise, vertigo, and manipulation. An absolute "must-have" title for Joseph Mills collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Joseph Mills. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Joseph Mills did NOT sign most copies of the Limited Edition. A rare signed copy thus. 26 color plates. One of the finest American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSEPH MILLS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1590051270. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Mills, Joseph : The Loves Of The Poets. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, livres anciens, libri antichi, out-of-print books and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |