12mo. 56p. Cardboard hardcovers with glossy pages. Very Good, slight marking and creasing on covers, slight sunning and aging on inner pages. Color photographs throughout. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019).

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The Father Costume.

Publisher

New York, NY : Artspace Books.

Publication Date

2002

Language

English

ISBN 10

1891273035

ISBN 13

9781891273032

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Good

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Behold a stunning world, composed largely of water, where clothing changes people's behavior and time itself can be worn and discarded like cloth. Witness a father who takes his two boys out to sea, in flight from some menace at home, thus launching their adventures in a strange and dangerous territory. Artist Matthew Ritchie's striking images blend scientific diagramming with vivid, colorful renderings of the apocalypse, while writer Ben Marcus's cold prose plumbs the inner workings of two boys caught out at sea with a father whose costumes grow increasingly menacing. In this collaborative work, Ritchie's and Marcus's shared obsessions of mythology, physics and ancient texts have produced a conjunction of text and image in which people themselves are merely costumes for the darker needs that drive them.

About the Author

Ben Marcus was born in Chicago in 1967. He is the author of two novels, "The Age of Wine and String" and "Notable American Women".

Matthew Ritchie was born in 1964 in London. He lives and works in New York.

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