Christopher Meatyard (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. HARDCOVER Acceptable - This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. Oversized.

Hardback. Condition: Good. How Meatyard made a stage set of his native Kentucky to portray his circle of friends and compose his eerie tableaux Stages for Being examines the photography that Ralph Eugene Meatyard created in and around Lexington, Kentucky, where he found abandoned houses in the countryside to use as sets, and directed friends and family members in scenes that suggest both ritual and theater. Establishing mood with natural lighting, he used masks, dolls and found objects as unsettling props and mined architectural detail for abstract compositional elements. Meatyard culled inspiration from a wide variety of sources. An autodidact in areas as diverse as jazz, painting, literature, history and Zen Buddhism, his voracious reading sparked endless ideas for his carefully constructed photographs. His process was also informed by consistent dialogue with a robust group of Kentucky peers, including the writer, environmental activist and farmer Wendell Berry; photographers Van Deren Coke and Robert C. May; the Trappist monk Thomas Merton; the painter Frederic Thursz; and the writer, poet and philosopher Guy Davenport, all of whom worked in the region but were engaged with contemporary ideas and practice in their fields. Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925?72) attended Williams College as part of the Navy's V12 program in World War II. Following the war, he married, became a licensed optician and moved to Lexington, Kentucky. When the first of his three children was born, Meatyard bought a camera to make pictures of the baby. Photography quickly became a consuming interest. He joined the Lexington Camera Club, where he met Van Deren Coke, under whose encouragement he soon developed into a powerfully original photographer. Meatyard's work is housed at the Museum of Modern Art, George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, the Smithsonian Institution and many other important collections.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Oversized.

Couverture souple. Condition: Assez bon. Edition originale. Etat de l'ouvrage : coins un peu frottés. Intérieur propre. Assez bon état général. Envoi protégé et sous 48h.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked clean pages. Tight spine. Clean cover. Attractive copy.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Very good indeed.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Wie neu. 92 Seiten Art& - 1. Auf. 1996 - gb + Su. Gr. 3N-ZIVO-QY79 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1161.

Condition: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or limited small stickers. Book may have a remainder mark or be a price cutter.…

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Broadside. Illustrated by Christopher Meatyard. Measuring 8¾" x 13¼", printed verso only on handmade Twinrocker paper. Fine. Copy 23 of 48 copies printed. Two illustrations from the 1977 King Library Press edition of *The Rabinal*, printed as a keepsake for the Fall Book Arts Event with Howard & Kathryn Clark.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. [44] pp., 4to, stab binding, gray cloth over boards, printed paper title label, slipcase with marbled-paper sides. Textblock constructed in a manner similar to a fukuro-toji book, where the sheets are folded at the foredge and the loose/open side of the sheets opposite the foredge are bound. Content would thus be printed on the two exposed sides of a folded sheet. Musical notations arranged by Lynn Murray and Richard Hamilton; calligraphic notation by Calvert Guthrie. The Rabinal is one of the last books designed by Carolyn Hammer before her retirement from the King Library Press, and has been called "perhaps the most ambitious and imaginative work done at the press" (Holbrook, An Introduction to Victor & Carolyn Hammer, p. 36). Designed by Hammer and Christopher Meatyard and printed by the latter. No. 59 of 65 copies printed in black and red on Honsho paper. A luxurious production. A fine and fresh copy in a like slipcase. Holbrook, Hammer; King Library Press, 6.…