Johanson Aaron (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by Munro on the title page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, in a mylar cover. 4to. 232pp. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Wood, Rob (jacket illustration); Bloch, ANthony (jacket typography; Johanson, Aaron (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition cream boards, gold spine, gold front cover facsimile author signature, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Caves of the Sacred Sites; List of Other Books by Jean M. Auel; Author Dedication and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with black-and-white front and rear endpaper map drawings. "In The Land of Painted Caves, Jean M. Auel brings the ice-age epic Earth's Children series to an extraordinary conclusion. Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and, above all, courage. As the story opens, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonni in the Ninth Cave - a shelter of stone. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte and has embarked on the arduous task of training to become a spiritual leader. It is daunting, often perilous work that sometimes takes her away from her family. Ayla, Jondalar, and Jonayla are welcomed by the Zelandonii, but problems arise. They are faced with new challenges, not just the ordinary tirials of sheer survival, but the complications posed by many groups of people who need to live and work together. The wisdom that Ayla gained from her struggles as an orphaned child, alone in a hostile environment, strengthens her as she moves closer to leadership of the Zelandonia. Ayla and Jondalar's first priority is the care for their golden-haired child, Jonayla, and the well-being of their amazing animals, Wolf, Whinney, Racer, and Gray. The two participate in hunts to provide food, in travels to Summer Meetings for decision making, and in social activities. Whatever the obstacles, Ayla's inventive spirit produces new ways to lessen the difficulties of daily life: searching for wild edibles to make delicious meals, experimenting with techniques to ease the long journeys the Zelandoni must take, honing her skills as a healer and a leader. And then, there are the Sacred Caves, the caves that Ayla's mentor - the Donier, the First of the Zelandonia - takes her to see. These caves are filled with remarkable art - paintings of mammoths, lions, aurochs, rhinoceros, reindeer, bison, bear. The powerful, mystical aura whithin these caves sometimes overwhelms Ayla. Ayla's final preparations for her initiation as a Zelandoni bring The Land of Painted Caves to a riveting climax. So much time apart from Jondalar has caused him to drift away from her. The rituals themselves bring her close to death. But through those rituals, Ayla gains A Gift of Knowledge so important that it will change the world. Spellbinding drama, meticulous research, fascinating detail, and superb narrative skill combine to make The Land of Painted Caves a captivating, utterly believable creation of a civilization that resonates long after the reader has turned the last page, and serves as an astonishing end to this beloved saga." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 208 pages. 12.50x9.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Softcover, 8v0. 1st Edition, boxed with insert. Unpaginated. Illustrated wraps, profusely illustrated. Scarce. photo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 2nd. Minor shelf and perusal wear; corners slightly bumped. Spine is creased but unbroken; pages are well bound. Text appears clean and unmarked.

256 pp.; 28.5 x 22.2 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, March 13 - May 23, 2004. Traveled to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, July 17 - October 3, 2004. Traveled to the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, February 5 - May 8, 2005. Exhibition organized and catalogue edited by Aaron Rose and Christian Strike. Essays by Aaron Rose, Christian Strike, Alex Baker, Thom Collins, Jeffrey Deitch, Carlo McCormick, Arty Nelson, James E. Walmesley, and Jocko Weyland. Artists include Thomas Campbell, Cynthia Connolly, Brian Donnelly, Cheryl Dunn, Shepard Fairey, Phil Frost, Mark Gonzales, Evan Hecox, Jo Jackson, Todd James (REAS), James Jarvis, Andy Jenkins, Chris Johanson, Spike Jonze, Margaret Kilgallen, Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinley, Ryan McGuinness, Mike Mills, Stephen Powers (ESPO), Terry Richardson, Clare E. Rojas, Rostarr, Ed Templeton, and Tobin Yelland. Includes full page artists' pages on Raymond Pettibon, Clare E. Rojas, Jo Jackson, Craig R. Stecyk III, Chris Johanson, Thomas Campbell, Ed Templeton, and Barry McGee. Includes biographies of artists as well as of artists identified as roots and influencers including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Neil Blender, Henry Chalfant, Larry Clark, R. Crumb, Glen E. Friedman, Futura, Keith Haring, Wes Humpston, Ari Marcopoulos, Raymond Pettibon, Pushead, Craig R. Stecyk III, and Andy Warhol. Also includes contributor biographies. Very Good / Fine. Small bump to bottom right corner of publication and right side of recto. Light dusting of dust jackets. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine to fine condition. First edition. Small Folio. 298pp. Original illustrated gray boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Yellow endpapers at front, brown at rear. Drawing by and signature of Chris Johanson on half-title. Artwork photographed by Tobin Yelland, Cheryl Dunn and others. Retrospective survey of Chris Johanson work with an introduction by Aaron Rose. Profusely illustrated with color reproductions of Chris Johanson's paintings, watercolors, drawings and installations throughout. With credits for images and photos at rear. "In Chris Johanson's open-wound heart and comically sinister universe, nudist dancers, good vibes, emotionally centered people, forest energy and rainbows transform the fleeting and commonplace activities of the human experience into affecting parables frozen in time." (Publisher). Text in English and Italian. Minor wear of binding.

Frist Edition. Square octavo. SIGNED by Johanson with a peace sign drawing and dated 2007. Features color reproductions of Johanson's paintings with details and installation shots, with a text by Aaron Rose titled "The Beauty and the Blemish." A charming little catalogue. Some minor shelf-wear to the edges, else fine in illustrated wrappers. Signed.

First edition, first printing. Signed by KAWS and ten other contributing artists, photographers and filmmakers. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated profusely in colour and black and white throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper. Produced in conjunction with the international travelling museum exhibition of the same name which opened at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti, Ohio in March 2004. The related Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard directed documentary film was released in 2008. Signed in black ink on across the front pastedown and endpaper by KAWS, Terry Richardson, Tobin Yelland, Chris Johanson, Cheryl Dunn, Christian Strike, Aaron Rose, Ivory Serra and three other contributors. Scarce thus. In the 1990s, a loose-knit group of American artists and creators, many just out of their teens, began their careers influenced by the popular underground youth subcultures of the day, such as skateboarding, graffiti, street fashion, and independent music. Artists like Shepard Fairey, Mark Gonzales, Spike Jonze, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Phil Frost, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, and Ed Templeton began to create art that reflected the lifestyles they led. Many had no formal training and almost no conception of the inner workings of the art world. They learned their crafts through practice, trial and error, and good old-fashioned innovation. Not since the Beat Generation have we seen a group of creative individuals with such a unified aesthetic sense and varied cultural facets. The world of art has been greatly affected by their accomplishments as have the worlds of fashion, music, literature, film, and, ironically, athletics. Beautiful Losers is a retrospective celebration of this spirit, with hundreds of artworks by over two dozen artists, from precursors like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Larry Clark, to more recent adherents Ryan McGinniss, KAWS, and Geoff McFetridge. Work in all conceivable mediums is included, plus reproductions of reams of ephemera. The accompanying essays are contributed by half a dozen writers who have championed these beautiful losers from the start. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.