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Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach [SIGNED]

Misrach, Richard (photographs); Anne Wilkes Tucker (text)

Boston: Bullfinch Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. 192pp. Original light brown cloth with yellow lettering on spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine. Cream endpapers. Four pages with color photograph frontisspieces. Title page with white lettering on color background. Signed Richard Misrach on front free endpaper. With an essay by Rebecca Solnit.

"Misrach's photographs are also remarkable for their unstinting exposure of man's attempts to destroy the desert. whose compelling power we have just learned to embrace. In this regard, Richard Misrach is engaged in a creative battle reminiscent of that waged by the German artist Anselm Kiefer..." (Foreword). Profusely illustrated with 170 photographs (160 in color). Contains chronology, exhibition history at rear. Dustjacket with light wear along edges, small tears and chips. Block yellowed lightly along edges, not affecting images. Good+ to very good condition. Item #51846
ISBN: 0821222546

Price: $200.00