21st Editions 2003 2003. 2 Volumes Signed Limited Editions 3 of 6. Features 20 Signed Original Hand Printed Platinum Prints and Two Signed Free-standing Platinum Prints in Pristine Condition. Details of the Books and Prints: John Wood wrote an exceptional introduction that states in part: "No visual artist since Blake himself is better suited to illustrate the Songs of Experience than Joel-Peter Witkin for Witkin is the most profoundly religious photographer in the history of the medium and probably the most god-haunted American artist of the twentieth century. His imagery like Blake's is a direct outgrowth of his spirituality. Witkin understands that art and religion are made of the same things: sex death and God. In Blake's own time few people could perceive the prophetic nature and spirituality of his work. Two centuries later we see him far more clearly but in his day his visionary claims coupled with an art like no one had ever before seen or read made him an outsider. When artists see beyond what others insist on calling the 'real' world when they shape new realities such as Cezanne and Picasso did or shape new mythologies from the very flesh of the ones we know and then insist that the deity they reveal is historical orthodox and authentic those artists begin to disturb us deeply. They undermine our security. They demand we look again at what we thought we had seen that we look through their eyes and that we look more deeply than we ever before had looked. "From the artist Songs of Innocence: "If our first book was glorious this one will be mystical. There is a Buddhist saying -- To everyman is given the key to the Gates of Heaven -- but the same key also opens the Gates of Hell. That is the difference between innocence and experience. It is what compels our desire to live. It is why for those who can see it Blake is God's jester. Blake was so wise that he could see 'nature as the work of the Devil.' He stated that 'The Devil is in us as far as we are in nature.' It is only when we are disengaged from mortality -- at death -- that evil leaves us. Then after Judgment either our chains are broken or we are 'his' Evermore. Logic the rational - these are options the Soap Operas of Divine Belief. Philosophy is a soiled diaper. Darwin playing in guano some where in a Bosch landscape. The subjects of my work are not freaks degenerates or the grotesque. They are ourselves. In this violent and visually wallpapered age I have chosen to evoke the darkness rather than the light: as Goya Blake and Redon have. Because we argue for Divine Madness as an honorable choice in a society devoid of human honor. The themes of my work are the things which constitute human existence history beauty. The work has at its very core the evidence of conscience presented as photographic metaphor. I strive to create experiences no one has seen or felt before." The books are hand-bound and printed in letterpress on handmade cotton rag paper and housed in a custom clamshell box. Each book measures 18" x 14". The free-standing platinum prints are housed in a folded letterpress printed presentation folder. The books are signed and numbered by Joel-Peter Witkin John Wood and the publisher Steven Albahari on the limitation page. A Letter of Provenance from Lance Speer is included. The following are the titles of the platinum prints: Songs of Innocence 1. Von Gloeden in Asien 2. Satiro 3. The Kiss 4. Blackman 5. Counting Lessons in Purgatory 6. Portrait of Nan 7. Man with Dog 8. Nude with Mask 9. Bird of Queveda 10. Woman Once a Bird 11. Still Life Mexico - signed free-standing platinum print Songs of Experience 1. Cupid and Centaur in the Museum of Love 2. La Bete 3. Man without a Head 4. Amour 5. Androgyny Breast Feeding a Fetus 6. Testicle Stretch with the Possibility of a Crushed Face 7. Portrait as a Vanite 8. The Invention of Milk 9. Prudence 10. A Day in the Country 11. Harvest - signed platinum print 21st Editions, 2003 unknown
London and Boston: The Medici Society 1927. xii 44pp ex-library with the markings and indications including repeated library name stamps some over portions of plates; foxing; front free endpaper removed. Second Impression. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Jacynth Parsons. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. The Medici Society Hardcover
London: Amalgamated Press Boys' Friend Library 1930. First edition TPBO Trade paperback Very Good. London: Amalgamated Press Boys' Friend Library: 1930. First edition TPBO Trade paperback Very Good 64 pp. A clean straight and tight copy with very modest wear. Amalgamated Press (Boys' Friend Library) paperback
Surrey: Hancock House 1998. 1st edition. VG/no dust jacket as issued sunning to front cover. 256 p. photos maps appendix biblio index 4to pictorial boards; Hancock House hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 65559 ISBN : 0888394012 9780888394019
Belfast: Her Majesty's Stationery Office HMSO 1956. 1st printing. VG/VG dust jacket. xvi 569 p. photos fold-out maps appendices footnotes index large 8vo; Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) hardcover
np: The Commemorative Group 1992. 1st printing. Fine/no dust jacket as issued. 248 p. 48 p. color/bw photos maps 4to full leather; The Commemorative Group hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 48854 ISBN : 0963130005 9780963130006
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