Goicolea, Anthony, Harris, Jane

Anthony Goicolea, Limited Edition (With Print)

      Twin Palms Publishers, 2003. New First edition, first printing. Deluxe limited edition of 50 copies (this being #34/50), with an 8 7/8 x 12 5/8 inch original "full-bleed" color Type C print signed on verso in blue ink by Goicolea (image size 8 7/8 x 12 5/8 inch inches). The print is held in place with clear archival corners to an archival 2-ply black matt board. The book is numbered and signed in black ink on the colophon page by Goicolea. The print (with a protective archival paper sheet) and book are housed in a custom-made cloth clamshell box (with a debossed design stamped in matt black on the front). Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards (dust jacket was not issued with the limited edition). Photographs by Anthony Goicolea. Brief text by Jane Harris. Includes a CD-ROM containing five short video works and "outtakes" by Goicolea, and an interview by Gus Van Sant. The CD-ROM is laid in a printed sleeve affixed to the inside front cover. Designed by Jack Woody and Anthony Goicolea. Unpaginated, with 153 four-color plates, beautifully printed on heavy fine paper. 9 x 13 inches. This first edition of Anthony Goicolea was limited to 2500 hardbound copies. A very scarce New copy of the first deluxe limited edition from 2003. CONDITION: New in New dust jacket (opened only for signature). From Harris' text: "Anthony Goicolea's recent landscape photographs read like the travelogue of a puerile mystic: a vision of the natural world where twisted Dr. Doolittle fantasies of frolicking animals take center stage, and pastoral dreams worthy of Virgil and Giorgione are mischievously rearranged. More than idyllic beauty or divine awe, these sublime vistas and picturesque scenes evoke a sense of preternatural kitsch. They are William Blake spirit-visions absurdly derailed, the shenanigans of imbecile angels on the lam, ecstasy-induced plots in an Arcadian farce. Ultimately, of course, they are the digital antics of an artist who sees in the genre of landscape yet another...