Carmen

2015 · réf. 1973 — First Edition. Artists' book 136 pp. : illustrations in color. Small 4to. Near fine. Illus. stiff wraps with unique collage element on the front cover. 1973 Winant's first major artists' book which includes texts by Matthew Brannon Moyra Davey Courtney Fiske Jim Fletcher Kenneth Goldsmith Jonathan Griffin Geoffrey Hilsabeck Michael Ned Holte Sarah McMenimen Anna Livia Alexander Provan Ross Simonini and John Yau. Per the 2016 review by PhotoEye the work is named after the 1974 Phillip Roth book of the same title yet "My Life as a Man makes no apparent contextual reference to Roth's book but the cover does appear as a small image multiple times in Winant's book. From the opening sequence which groups an image of a naked woman laying face down on a table under the watchful eyes of a team of male doctors with various other images of men gazing at woman it's clear the work offers a pointed critique of the ways in which the female form and gestures are controlled and imaged." Though the edition size is unstated the work is very rare and each copy comes with a unique collaged image on the cover and a folded poster of nearly completed New York Times crossword puzzles by Winant's mother. Horses Think Press books