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Roberts, Holly (Artist/Photographer); Moley-Martinez, T.D.& Other Contributors : Holly Roberts Works 1989-1999

Nazraeli Press, Tucson, AZ, 2000

ISBN 3923922841

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 80 pages. Landmark retrospective collection of the artist's photographically-based paintings. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Holly Roberts and Chris Pichler: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray cloth boards with art reproduction pasted on the cover and black titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Art by Holly Roberts. Introduction by T. D. Moley-Martinez. Essays by Robert H. Wilson and Steve Yates. Notes on the Plates and brief Biography appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Holly Roberts Works 1989-1999". The artist/photographer's work over the last decade. Holly Roberts begins with a photograph and then proceeds gradually to efface it by turning it into magical paintings, drawings, and mixed-media art that are powerful not just because they evoke the elemental power of art itself (now missing in most contemporary painting), but also because every image is "dreaming out loud". "She found that by painting over a photographic surface, she was able to manipulate the paint (scrape it, scratch it, even wipe it away) with the luxury of never losing the underlying image. A modern pioneer of the method, Roberts ups the ante with an understanding of human dynamics and a technique that appears unstudied" (Publisher's blurb). While Holly Roberts's lapidary skills are masterly and make one think of "craft", her works are psychic projections, profoundly personal and indelible works of art. An absolute "must-have" title for Holly Roberts collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the half-title page by Holly Roberts. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art and photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 60 color plates. One of the finest American artists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 3923922841.

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