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Recipient of the National Book Award from the National Museum of Women in the Arts 1994
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About the Author
TERRY BRAUNSTEIN, was born in Washington, D.C., and has lived in Long Beach for the past 25 years. She is a multi-media photomontage artist, whose work has been shown in museums and galleries internationally. These include the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Gallery Miyazaki in Japan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sala Arcs gallery in Barcelona, and Museo Civico in Italy. Her one-person exhibitions include the Long Beach Museum of Art, Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica, Washington Project for the Arts in Washington D.C, Franklin Furnace in New York and many others around the world.
Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Getty Center, National Museum of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, and Long Beach Museum of Art.
As a public artist for the past 18 years, Braunstein has been awarded commissions by the Los Angeles MTA, Navy Memorial Heritage Association, Redevelopment Agency of Long Beach, Long Beach Transit, City of Cerritos, Los Angeles County Arts Commission and Los Angeles Museum of Art, among others. She recently collaborated with Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske on art enhancements for the Rosie the Riveter Park in Long Beach.
Terry Braunstein was the recipient of the National Book Award of the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, an Artist's fellowship from the City of Long Beach, and a Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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According to myth, the phoenix is a bird that is born and dies in fire, only to be born again. After a life of 500 years, the phoenix makes a long journey to the East, stopping to pick up various spices and other riches. When she finally arrives high in the mountains, she builds herself a nest from what she has collected along the way. She sings the most beautiful song as she prepares her nest. Her brilliant feathers catch the light of the sun; the sparks hit her nest, and she and her home are completely burned.
A tiny white worm emerges from the ashes -- the beginning of the new phoenix. Taking only what she needs, she prepares to return to the West, where she will spend the next 500 years. On her way, she stops to attend a funeral rite for her former self. Accompanied for a short distance by all of the birds in the world, the new phoenix returns to begin again.
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A Tale from the Fire
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National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 1995
ISBN 10: 0940979306
ISBN 13: 9780940979307
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Seller: Friends of the Redwood Libraries, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Washington, D.C.: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1995. 1st Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Has some wear around edges; NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY ARTIST, #25 of 425. White wraps with diecut rectangles on covers; cobalt & color illus. paper dust jacket, [20 pp.], highly illustrated in color. A colorfully illustrated story rendered by American artist H. Terry Braunstein. 0940979306 US. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 009057
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A Tale from the Fire
Published by
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1995
ISBN 10: 0940979306
ISBN 13: 9780940979307
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Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Softcover. Deluxe Edition. White wraps with diecut rectangles on covers; cobalt & color illus. paper dust jacket, [20 pp.], highly illustrated in color. A colorfully illustrated story rendered by American artist H. Terry Braunstein (b. 1942). This is a numbered and signed Deluxe Edition copy, one of 75. VG (Front diecut has some wear around edges; NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY ARTIST on colophon, either #27 or #47.). Seller Inventory # 150657
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A Tale From the Fire [SIGNED]
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The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 1995
ISBN 10: 0940979306
ISBN 13: 9780940979307
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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: near fine. Limited first edition. 1/425. Large quarto. Unpaginated (18 pages). Illustrated dust jacket with with cutouts, and yellow lettering. #385 from a limited edition of 425 copies, signed and hand-numbered on the colophon at the rear. This finely produced work of photo collage from American photo-montage artist Terry Braunstein (b. 1942) was the result of her having won the National Book Award of the Library Fellows of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in 1994. Here she cleverly uses the work of previous acclaimed artist such as Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, William Turner, Edward Hopper and René Magritte as a springboard to launch her own idiosyncratic additions to and manipulations of the images, using collage and photo-montage techniques. Many images have text captions underneath, furthering the visual story. Dust jacket with minor rubbing to a few of the corners, and a few light smudges on the front cover. Interior front cover with a tipped in library bookplate. In near fine condition overall. Seller Inventory # 48454