Violent Legacies: Three Cantos
New York: Aperture, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 93,(3)pp. Original photographic dust-jacket over orange cloth. Color frontispiece. Title page in red and black lettering. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Small closed tear on front free endpaper and remainder mark at bottom of text block.
In this work, the acclaimed Richard Misrach has compiled three new "cantos" in his ongoing series of photographs exploring the desert in the American West. The photographs symbolize conditions to be found across the globe and in our own backyards. Richard Misrach unveils a landscape of terrible beauty and great metaphorical power. He asks us to confront the violence in human nature, the skeletons in our closet, the radiant glow on the horizon. Dust-jacket rippled. Very minor age-toning along paper margin. Dust-jacket in overall fair, binding and interior in good+ to very good condition. very good + in near fine cloth. Item #49986
ISBN: 0893815195
Price: $95.00